cream

«cream» in Mova's school dictionary: the thick, fatty part of milk — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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

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

• 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.