cream.
The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
Meaning & usage
The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…
The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
The best part of something.
the cream of the crop
the cream of a collection of books or pictures
A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream.
Semen.
The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
We creamed the opposing team!
To ejaculate or become wet (used of either gender).
To be very enthusiastic about or attracted to something (used especially of women).
To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
To take off the best or choicest part of.
To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.
To gather or form cream.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
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