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milk | feet |

As nouns the difference between milk and feet

is that milk is (uncountable) a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young from certain animals, especially cows, it is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt while feet is (foot).

As a verb milk

is to express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).

milk

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . (Cognates) Cognate with (etyl) .

Noun

  • (uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
  • # The lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, and including the addition of limited amounts of vitamin A, vitamin D, and other carriers or flavoring ingredients identified as safe and suitable.
  • (countable, informal) An individual serving of milk.
  • Table three ordered three milks'''.'' (Formally: ''The guests at table three ordered three glasses of '''milk . )
  • (uncountable) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as soy beans, coconuts, almonds, rice, oats. Also called non-dairy milk .
  • * c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:
  • Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke
  • * 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
  • dorr?&
  • 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande ' mylk .
  • The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
  • (uncountable, slang) semen
  • Quotations

    * 2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition , National Public Radio *: there's going to be that much less milk' available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid ' milk or whether it's cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.

    Derived terms

    * almond milk * breast milk * chocolate milk * coconut milk * condensed milk * cowmilk, cow milk * evaporated milk * flavored milk, flavoured milk * homogenized milk * milkaholic * milk bar * milk bottle * milk chocolate * milk fever * milk float * milkmaid * milkman * milk of magnesia * milk pan * milk powder * milk product * milkshake * milk tooth * milky * Milky Way * nut milk * oat milk * rice milk * semi-skimmed milk * skimmed milk, skim milk * soy milk * whole milk

    References

    * FDA standard of identity for "milk".

    Etymology 2

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

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
  • The farmer milked his cows.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me.
  • To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
  • to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows
  • To express any liquid (from any creature).
  • (figurative) To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, etc.); to take advantage of (a situation).
  • When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
  • * London Spectator
  • They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "milk") * dairy * dairy product 1000 English basic words ----

    feet

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (foot).
  • :
  • *
  • *:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=14 citation , passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
  • (lb) Fact; performance; feat.
  • Derived terms

    * a closed mouth gathers no feet * crow's-feet * cubic feet * drag one's feet * fall on one's feet * fall over one's feet * feet first * feet of clay * feet first * feetless * feetlong * find one's feet * flat feet * get cold feet * get one's feet wet * have one's feet on the ground * hold someone's feet to the fire * itchy feet * land on one's feet * metric feet * on one's feet * out on one's feet * put one's feet up * puppy feet * quick on his feet * six feet under * stand on one's own two feet * stocking-feet * think on one's feet * two left feet * vote with one's feet * washing of feet * See also

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