dairy

«dairy» in Mova's school dictionary: Food made from milk, such as cheese, butter, yoghurt and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a dairy, dairies; dairy, uncountable); adjective (dairy)

meaning for a pupil

1) Food made from milk, such as cheese, butter, yoghurt and cream. tree →

2) A place where milk is kept and made into butter or cheese. tree →

3) A company that sells milk. tree →

4) (NZ) A small corner shop. tree →

5) (adjective) Related to milk (dairy farm, dairy cows). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and health: dairy foods give calcium for bones; the food groups. In geography: dairy farming. In everyday life: dairy aisle, dairy-free (for allergies or vegans). In New Zealand: «pop down to the dairy» for sweets.

examples

• Cheese and yoghurt are dairy foods. tree →
• My brother can't eat dairy. tree →
• We visited a dairy farm and milked a cow. tree →
• Dairy foods give us calcium. tree →
• This ice cream is dairy-free. tree →
• I bought a lolly at the dairy. (NZ) tree →
• Then the monkey got up and went to the dairy, and drank all the milk he could find. tree →

note

Trap: dairy (milk food, DAIR-ee) and diary (a book for daily notes, DIE-uh-ree) are often mixed up. Eggs are not dairy, even though they are sold near it.

In the corpora

• From the farm the milk travels cold in a tanker to the dairy, where a quick heating called pasteurisation kills the germs.
• Vegetarians can get all their nutrients from beans, eggs, dairy, nuts, grains and vegetables.
• Butter and cheese are made from milk; a farm that keeps cows for their milk is called a dairy farm.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dairy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.