milk
US: /ˈmɪɫk/
UK: /mˈɪlk/
UK: /mˈɪlk/
English Vietnamese dictionary
milk /milk/
- danh từ
- sữa
- condensed milk: sữa đặc
- milk of almonds: nước sữa hạnh
- nhựa mủ (cây), nước (dừa...)
- it is no use crying over spilt milk
- (xem) spill
- milk for bales
- (nghĩa bóng) loại văn học đơn giản, học thuyết đơn giản
- sữa
- ngoại động từ
- vắt sữa
- to milk a cow: vắt sữa bò
- bòn rút, bóc lột
- lấy (nhựa) bóp, nặn (nọc rắn...)
- (từ lóng) nhận trộm, nghe lỏm (điện tín)
- vắt sữa
- nội động từ
- cho sữa
- the cows are milking well this season: mùa này bò cho nhiều sữa
- to milk the ram (bull)
- lấy gậy chọc trời
- to milk the tilt
- thụt két
- cho sữa
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
[U]
1 the white liquid produced by cows, goats and some other animals as food for their young and used as a drink by humans: a pint / litre of milk + a bottle / carton of milk + fresh / dried / powdered milk + Do you take milk in your tea? + milk products (= butter, cheese, etc.)
See also -
2 the white liquid that is produced by women and female MAMMALS for feeding their babies: breast milk
3 the white juice of some plants and trees, especially the COCONUT
Idioms: the milk of human kindness (literary) kind behaviour, considered to be natural to human beings
more at CRY v., LAND n.
+ verb [VN]
1 to take milk from a cow, goat, etc.
2 ~ A (of B)
~ B (from A) (disapproving) to obtain as much money, advantage, etc. for yourself as you can from a particular situation, especially in a dishonest way: She's milked a small fortune from the company over the years. + She's milked the company of a small fortune. + I know he's had a hard time lately, but he's certainly milking it for all it's worth (= using it as an excuse to do things that people would normally object to).
Idioms see DRY n.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
drain, bleed, extract, tap, exploit, wring, draw off or out, withdraw:
The comic milked the joke for yet another laugh. The taxman is milking me dry.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
fresh | curdled, off, sour
The milk has gone off/turned sour.
| full-cream, full-fat, whole | low-fat, semi-skimmed | non-fat, skimmed | creamy | cold, warm | cow's, goat's, etc. | breast | baby, formula | coconut, soya | condensed, evaporated
a tin of condensed milk
| dried, powdered | pasteurized, unpasteurized | homogenized | long-life, UHT | organic
QUANT.
litre, pint | bottle, carton, cup, glass, jug
VERB + MILK
drink, have, take
Do you take milk in your coffee?
| add | pour | spill | deliver
They've stopped delivering milk in our area.
| boil, heat, scald | produce | express
She expressed some milk so her husband could do the night feeding.
MILK + NOUN
powder | pudding, shake
(also
milkshake
)
| chocolate | product | bottle, churn, jug | production, yield | float, round
PHRASES
the top of the milk
(= the creamy part at the top of a milk bottle)
Concise English dictionary
milks|milked|milkingmɪlk
noun
+a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
+produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
+a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
+any of several nutritive milklike liquids
verb
+take milk from female mammals
+exploit as much as possible
+add milk to
