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Found 1 definition: cheese.

Pos: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun cheese has 2 senses

1. cheese(n = noun.food) Array - a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk; Array
is a kind of food, solid food, dairy product
has parts: cheese rind
has particulars: cream cheese, triple cream, triple creme, cottage cheese, farm cheese, farmer's cheese, pot cheese, process cheese, processed cheese, bleu, blue cheese, brie, brick cheese, camembert, american cheese, armerican cheddar, cheddar, cheddar cheese, cheshire cheese, double gloucester, edam, chevre, goat cheese, gouda, gouda cheese, grated cheese, hand cheese, liederkranz, limburger, mozzarella, muenster, parmesan, quark, quark cheese, ricotta, string cheese, swiss cheese, velveeta

2. cheese(n = noun.plant) cheeseflower, high mallow, malva sylvestris, tall mallow - erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States; Array
is a kind of mallow
is a member of genus malva, malva

Verb cheese has 2 senses

1. cheese(v = verb.stative) Array - used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!"
is one way to cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

2. cheese(v = verb.contact) Array - wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn"
is one way to spool
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

cheese, n. [OE. chese, AS. cēse, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein.].

1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold. [1913 Webster]

2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese. [1913 Webster]

3. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia). [1913 Webster]

4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. [1913 Webster]

Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called skippers or hoppers, live in cheese. -- Cheese mite (Zoöl.), a minute mite (Tryoglyhus siro) in cheese and other articles of food. -- Cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold. -- Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. -- Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

cheese, n.
1 a a food made from the pressed curds of milk. b a complete cake of this with rind.
2 a conserve having the consistency of soft cheese (lemon cheese).
3 a round flat object, e.g. the heavy flat wooden disc used in skittles.

Idiom:
cheese-cutter
1 a knife with a broad curved blade.
2 a device for cutting cheese by pulling a wire through it. cheese-fly (pl. -flies) a small black fly, Piophila casei, breeding in cheese. cheese-head the squat cylindrical head of a screw etc. cheese-mite any mite of the genus Tyroglyphus feeding on cheese. cheese-paring adj. stingy.
--n. stinginess. cheese plant = Swiss cheese plant. cheese-skipper = cheese-fly. cheese straw a thin cheese-flavoured strip of pastry. hard cheese sl. bad luck.

cheese, v.tr. Brit. sl. (as cheesed adj.) (often foll. by off) bored, fed up.

Idiom:
cheese it stop it, leave off.

cheese, n. (also big cheese) sl. an important person.

Etymology:
perh. f. Hind. chiz thing