Cheese vs Lock - What's the difference?

As a noun cheese

is (uncountable) a dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk or cheese can be (slang) wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

As a verb cheese

is to prepare curds for making cheese or cheese can be (slang) to stop; to refrain from or cheese can be (gaming|slang) to use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter.

As an interjection cheese

is (photography).

As a proper noun lock is

cheese

English

(wikipedia cheese)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) chese, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)

(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

(countable) Any particular variety of cheese.

(countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

(uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or , i.e. cheesy.

(uncountable, slang) Money.

(countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.

(uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.

(uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.

(vulgar, slang) Smegma.

(technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

* 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation

It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.

A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.

The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia ).

A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

(De Quincey)

(Thackeray)

Hyponyms

* See also

Antonyms

* fill (dummy pattern to increase pattern density)

Derived terms

* Abertam cheese * American cheese * apple-cheese * * Asiago cheese * basket cheese * bleu cheese * blue cheese * Bonchester cheese * bread and cheese * brick cheese * Brussels' cheese * Buxton Blue cheese * Cabrales cheese * Caerphilly cheese * Caithness cheese * Camembert cheese * cauliflower cheese * chalk and cheese * Chaumes cheese * Cheddar cheese * cheese and bread * cheese-bail * cheese board, cheese-board, cheeseboard * cheese-borer * cheese-bowl * cheese-box * cheese-bug * cheeseburger * cheese-cement * cheesecake * cheese cloth, cheesecloth, cheese-clout * cheese-cratch * cheese-crate * cheese curds * cheese-cutter, cheesecutter * cheesed, cheesed off * cheese dip * cheese dish * cheese down * cheese fingers * cheese fly * cheese grater * cheese-hake, cheese-heck * cheese-head * cheese-headed * cheese-hoop * cheese-hopper, cheesehopper * cheese-knife * cheese ladder * cheeseling * cheese-maggot * cheesemaker * cheese mite * cheese-moat * cheese-mold, cheese-mould * cheesemonger * cheese off * cheese-pale * cheese-parer * cheese-paring, cheeseparing * cheese-plate * cheese powder * cheese-press * cheeser * cheese rack/cheese-rack * cheese-ramekin * cheese-rennet * cheese-room * cheese-running * cheesery * the Cheeses * cheese-scoop * cheese skipper * cheese slaw * cheese slicer * cheese spread * cheese straw * cheese-taster * cheese-toaster * cheese-tub * cheese-vat * cheese-water * cheesewire * cheesewood * cheese-wring * cheesine * cheesing * cheesy * * Cheshire cheese * Chevington cheese * * Chihuahua cheese * cock cheese * Colby cheese * Colby-Jack cheese * Coon cheese * Cornish Yarg cheese * cotija cheese * cottage cheese * Cougar Gold cheese * cream cheese, cream-cheese * Criollo cheese * Cuba cheese * curd cheese * damson cheese, damson-cheese * Danish Blue cheese * Derby cheese * Dorset Blue Vinney cheese * Dorstone cheese * Double Gloucester cheese * Dovedale cheese * Duberry cheese * Dunlop cheese * Dutch cheese * * Edam cheese * Emmental cheese, Emmenthal cheese * Exmoor Blue cheese * farmer cheese, farmer's cheese * feta cheese * Gloucester cheese * goat cheese * Gouda cheese * Grana Padano cheese * grated cheese * green cheese * * hard cheese * head-cheese, headcheese, head cheese * hoop cheese * Horeb cheese * human cheese * Huntsman cheese * Idiazabal cheese * Ilchester cheese * jack cheese * * Jarlsberg cheese * Lancashire cheese * Leicester cheese * Leidse cheese, Leyden cheese * lemon cheese * Liederkranz cheese * Limburg cheese, Limburger cheese * Lincolnshire Poacher cheese * Lymeswold cheese * macaroni and cheese, macaroni cheese * make butter and cheese of * make cheeses * Manchego cheese * Maytag Blue cheese * mousetrap cheese * mozzarella cheese * Muenster cheese, Munster cheese, * Nabulsi cheese * * nipcheese * * Oaxaca cheese * Oka cheese * Parmesan cheese * pepper jack cheese * pick-cheese * pimento cheese * Pinconning cheese * pizza cheese * pot cheese * processed cheese * Provel cheese * rat cheese * Red Leicester cheese * Red Windsor cheese * ricotta cheese * romano cheese * ruen cheese * sage-cheese * Sage Derby cheese * * Sakura cheese * say cheese * Shropshire Blue cheese * Single Gloucester cheese * slip cheese * smoked cheese * sour milk cheese * Stilton cheese * Stinking Bishop cheese * store cheese * string cheese * Swaledale cheese * Swiss cheese * Testouri cheese * Teviotdale cheese * Tilsit cheese, Tilsiter cheese * tip-cheese * toad-cheese, toad's cheese * Tyrolean grey cheese * * * Waterloo cheese * Wensleydale cheese * White Stilton cheese * Yunnan cheese * Zamorano cheese

Verb

(chees)

To prepare curds for making cheese.

(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

Interjection

(photography)

Say "cheese "! ... and there we are!

Etymology 2

Probably from (etyl) .

Noun

(-)

(slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

Derived terms

* big cheese * sub-cheese

Etymology 3

Verb

(chees)

(slang) To stop; to refrain from.

(slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

Derived terms

* cheese it * cheesed off

Etymology 4

From cheesy.

Verb

(chees)

(gaming, slang) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter

You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.

(gaming) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games)

It's not every day you can see someone defend a cheese maneuver with a planetary fortress and win the game without using a single unit.

Synonyms

* (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game) rush, zerg 1000 English basic words

lock

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.

* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)

"Give me the key," said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.

*, chapter=13

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock .}}

A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.

* 2005 , Karl Kopper, The Linux Enterprise Cluster

the application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.

A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.

* 1846 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock .

The firing mechanism of a gun.

* 1837 , (Charles Dickens), (The Pickwick Papers)

"I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock , as if that would do any good.

Complete control over a situation.

* 2003 , (Charley Rosen), The Wizard of Odds

Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.

Something sure to be a success.

* 2004 , (Avery Corman), A perfect divorce

Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.

(label) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=Septembe 24, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport

, title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania , passage=Ashton only had to wait three minutes for his second try, lock Louis Deacon setting it up with a rollocking line-break, before Romania got on the scoreboard courtesy of a penalty from fly-half Marin Danut Dumbrava. }}

A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

* (Thomas De Quincey) (1785-1859)

Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages

A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.

(Dryden)

A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

A grapple in wrestling.

(Milton)

Derived terms

* alcolock * ankle lock * anti-lock * caps lock * flash lock * flat lock * flintlock * genlock * gridlock * leglock * liplock * lockfast * lock time * * lockbox * lockmaster * locknote * locksmithing * lockstep * matchlock * num lock * overlock * padlock * picklock * scroll lock * staircase lock * tide lock * time lock

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To become fastened in place.

*, chapter=13

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked , of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.}}

(label) To fasten with a lock.

(label) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.

(label) To intertwine or dovetail.

To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.

To furnish (a canal) with locks.

To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.

Antonyms

* unlock

Derived terms

* lock and load * lock horns * lock in * lock lips * lock on * lock out * lock up * lockable * relock * unlockable

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m). Cognate with (etyl) (m) (whence (etyl) (m)), (etyl) (m). It has been theorised that the word may be related to the (etyl) verb in its ancient meaning to curb .

Noun

(en noun)

tuft or length of hair

If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings?

Derived terms

* daglock * elflock * forelock * goldilocks * sidelock

Anagrams

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