Cheese vs Monkey - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between cheese and monkey

is that cheese is a dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk while monkey is any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.

As verbs the difference between cheese and monkey

is that cheese is to prepare curds for making cheese while monkey is to meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.

As an interjection cheese

is Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

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
See also
* (wikipedia) * * butter * cream * milk * turophile * yogurt
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
monkey
English
(wikipedia monkey)
Noun
(en noun)
Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.

(label) A mischievous child.

Five hundred pounds sterling.

(label) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.

(label) A person with minimal intelligence and/or (bad) looks.

(label) A face card.

(label) A menial employee who does a repetitive job.

The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.

A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.

Derived terms
* (menial employee) phone monkey, code monkey * brass monkey * capuchin monkey * grease monkey * green monkey * green monkey disease * monkey barge * monkey bars * monkey bike * monkey boot * monkey bread * monkey business * monkey dance * monkey drill * monkey-faced owl * monkey flip * monkey humping a football * monkey in the middle * monkey jacket * monkey motion * monkey nut * monkey orchid * monkey pole * monkey rum * monkey show * monkey spoon * monkey squirrel * monkey stove * Monkey Ward's * monkey orange * monkey pistol * monkey thorn * monkey wrench * not give a monkey's
Verb

(label) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.

''Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.

* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XII

“As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps! Why monkey with weak imitations when you can come close to the original?”

Derived terms
{{der3, code monkey , grease monkey , I'll be a monkey's uncle , make a monkey out of , monkey's uncle , monkey around , monkey bars , monkey boy , monkey business , monkey humping a football , monkey man , monkey meat , monkeynut , monkey trial , monkey up , monkey script , , monkeyshines , monkey wrench , New World monkey , Old World monkey , porch monkey , powder monkey , snow monkey , spank the monkey}}
See also
* ape * primate 1000 English basic words