milk

US: /ˈmɪɫk/
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
  • 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)
    • 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

    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 - BUTTERMILK, CONDENSED MILK, EVAPORATED MILK, MALTED MILK, SKIMMED MILK
    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