Milk vs Rose - What's the difference?
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(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.
(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:
* 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
(uncountable, slang) semen
To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
* Shakespeare
To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
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).
* London Spectator
A shrub of the genus Rosa , with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
A flower of the rose plant.
A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
Something resembling a rose flower.
(heraldiccharge) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
The base of a light socket.
(mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
(mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
(poetic) To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.
* Shakespeare
(poetic) To perfume, as with roses.
Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.
(rise)
As a noun 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.As a verb milk
is to express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).As a proper noun rose is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . (Cognates) Cognate with (etyl) .Noun
- Table three ordered three milks'''.'' (Formally: ''The guests at table three ordered three glasses of '''milk . )
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- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke
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- 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande ' mylk .
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 milkReferences
*FDA standard of identity for "milk".
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The farmer milked his cows.
- I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me.
- to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows
- When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
- They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.
rose
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardh-'', compare Sanskrit ''vardh- , with relatives in Avestan).Noun
(s)Verb
(ros)- A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
- (Tennyson)
