cheese
part of speech
noun (cheese, uncountable; a cheese, cheeses for types or whole ones)
meaning for a pupil
1) Cheese is a food made from milk, usually yellow or white, that can be soft or hard. tree →
2) A cheese is a whole round block or a particular kind of cheese. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, cheese is made when milk is thickened (curdled) and the liquid is drained off; it is a dairy food with calcium for strong bones and teeth. In cooking and lunches: cheese sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, pizza. People say «Say cheese!» when taking a photo so everyone smiles. Phrases: a slice of cheese, grated cheese, cheese on toast, say cheese.
examples
- I had a cheese sandwich for lunch. tree →
- Cheese is made from milk. tree →
- Grate the cheese on top of the pizza. tree →
- Mice in cartoons love cheese. tree →
- Say cheese! tree →
- France makes hundreds of cheeses. tree →
- Cheddar is a hard cheese. tree →
- Cheese gives you calcium. tree →
- I can eat my bread without cheese. tree →
note
Usually uncountable: «some cheese», «a piece of cheese», not «a cheese» for a portion. Myth: real mice do not especially love cheese; they prefer grains and fruit. Some people cannot eat cheese because of a milk allergy or intolerance.
In the corpora
- Mice prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods to cheese, so peanut butter works better in humane traps.
- Mice will eat cheese, but they prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods, so people baiting traps usually use peanut butter.
- Badger finishes his cheese, stands by the fire and asks Toad what his father, Badger's old friend, would have said.
- Cheese-makers use exactly this trick to make soft cheeses like paneer.
- Acid makes milk proteins clump into lumps; cheese-makers use this to make soft cheese like paneer.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cheese» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.