cream
part of speech
noun (cream, creams); adjective (cream-coloured); verb (cream, creams, creamed, creaming)
meaning for a pupil
1) Cream is the thick, fatty part of milk. It is used to make butter, cakes and ice cream. tree →
2) A cream is a soft thick stuff you rub on your skin, like sun cream. tree →
3) Cream is a pale yellow-white colour. tree →
4) To cream butter and sugar is to mix them until soft. tree →
5) The cream of something is the best part of it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Psalm it means smoothness. A false friend's speech is smooth as cream, but he means war. Interpretation: The verse warns that kind words can hide a bad heart. Tradition values speech that matches inner intention. In the primary lessons: mostly in «ice cream»: cones, scoops or tubs that are counted or bought; also an amount of cream in a recipe; in everyday life and safety: put on sun cream before going out in the sun; in cooking: whipped cream on desserts, strawberries and cream; phrases: «ice cream», «sun cream», «whipped cream», «the cream of the crop» (the very best)
examples
- Smoother than cream were the speeches of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet were they keen-edged swords. (Writings PSA.55.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- An ice cream cone costs 2 dollars. tree →
- Each cone has 3 scoops of ice cream. tree →
- The recipe needs 200 millilitres of cream. tree →
- They sold 45 ice creams on Monday. tree →
- Put on sun cream before you go to the beach. tree →
- We had strawberries and cream at the picnic. tree →
- Cream the butter and sugar together. tree →
- She painted her room cream. tree →
- These pupils are the cream of the school's runners. tree →
- "This good, rich milk," she mused, "will give me plenty of cream to churn. tree →
note
Carries no clue. In «ice cream» it is part of the thing counted or the item bought; look for the price or number beside it. Cream (stuff) is uncountable; «ice creams» can be counted as servings. Measured in millilitres or cups.
In the corpora
- Babies wear nappies, which are changed six to ten times a day, and nappy cream stops sore skin.
- Pale pigs can get sunburnt like fair-skinned people, so farmers sometimes give them shade or sun cream.
- Ice and salt together get much colder than ice alone, cold enough to freeze ice cream in a bag.
- And ice cream feels smooth because it is stirred while freezing, keeping its ice crystals tiny.
- Whisking cream traps air bubbles, held by fat droplets; whisking too long turns it lumpy and then into butter.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cream» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.