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Milky vs Dairy - What's the difference?

milky | dairy |

As adjectives the difference between milky and dairy

is that milky is resembling milk in color or consistency while dairy is referring to products produced from milk.

As a noun dairy is

a place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese.

milky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling milk in color or consistency.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • pails high foaming with a milky flood
  • * Arbuthnot
  • milky juice
  • (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
  • (colloquial) Cowardly.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
  • (obsolete) Yielding milk.
  • * Roscommon
  • milky mothers

    dairy

    English

    (wikipedia dairy)

    Noun

    (dairies)
  • A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese.
  • A dairy farm.
  • A shop selling dairy products.
  • (also dairy products'' or ''dairy produce ) Products produced from milk.
  • (New Zealand) A corner-store, superette or 'mini-mart' of some description.
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * dairymaid * nondairy

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Referring to products produced from milk.
  • Referring to the milk production and processing industries
  • (British) On food labelling, containing fats only from dairy sources (e.g. dairy ice cream).
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