cheese

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English [edit]

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Cheese for sale in a market.

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English chese, from Old English ċēse, ċīese (“cheese”), from Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz (“cheese”), from Latin cāseus (“cheese”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwat- (“to ferment, become sour”). Cognate with West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”). Also related to Old English hwaþerian (“to roar, foam, surge”), dialectal Swedish hvå (“foam”), Albanian kos (“yoghurt”), Latvian kūsāt (“to boil”), Old Church Slavonic квасъ (kvasŭ, “leaven; sour drink”), Sanskrit क्वथते (kváthate, “it boils”).

Noun [edit]

cheese (usually uncountable; plural cheeses)

  1. (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
  2. (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
  3. (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
  4. (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
  5. (uncountable, slang) Money.
  6. (countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
  7. (countable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
  8. (uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
  9. (vulgar, slang) Smegma.
  10. (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.
Hyponyms [edit]
Antonyms [edit]
  • fill (dummy pattern to increase pattern density)
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from “cheese”
Translations [edit]
dairy product
countable: any particular variety of cheese
slang: money
slang: fastball in baseball
See also [edit]

Verb [edit]

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

  1. To prepare curds for making cheese.
  2. (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

Interjection [edit]

cheese!

  1. (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
    Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!
Translations [edit]
said while being photographed

Etymology 2 [edit]

Probably from Persian چيز (čīz, “thing”).

Noun [edit]

cheese (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
Derived terms [edit]

Etymology 3 [edit]

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Verb [edit]

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

  1. (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
  2. (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
    All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.
  3. (gaming, slang) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter
    And this douchebag decided, "I'm going to cheese because that's all I can do in life."
  4. (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 [edit]
  • (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game): rush, zerg
Derived terms [edit]
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