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CURDS

"CURDS" is a plural of: curd.

Date "CURDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)


Specialty Definition: CURDS

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Product obtained from curdled milk from which most of the serum has been extracted. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CURDS

English words defined with "CURDS": Cheese cake, clabber, clot, cottage cheese, curd, curdlefarm cheese, farmer's cheese, Fleetings, friablepot cheese. (references)
Etymologies containing "CURDS": Fleetings. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CURDS

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: CURDS

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Non-Fiction Usage: CURDS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Smart shoppers learn to read food labels with care, looking not only for milk and lactose among the contents but also for such words as whey, curds, milk by-products, dry milk solids, and nonfat dry milk powder. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CURDS

"CURDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CURDS" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%5844,427

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: CURDS

Expression using "CURDS": albanian fried food of cheese or curds. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CURDS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cheese curds

56

curds

12

curds and whey

9

wisconsin cheese curds

8

cheese curds deep fried

7

cheese curds fried

4

cheese curds recipe

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CURDS

Language Translations for "CURDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fërgesë (albanian fried food of cheese or curds). (various references)

   

Czech

  

tvaroh (cottage cheese, curd). (various references)

   

Danish

  

surmaelkskvark (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), ostemasse (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), maelkekoagel (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), kvark (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), kvarg (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), hvid ost (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wrongel (cottage cheese, curd, curdled milk, whey cheese, white cheese), platte kaas (cottage cheese, cream cheese, curd, fresh cheese, lactic cheese, soft cheese, whey cheese, white cheese). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kazeo. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

heran lasku (dripping of curdled milk, dripping of curds). (various references)

   

French

  

caillebotte (curd), fromage blanc (curd). (various references)

   

German

  

Weisskaese (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), Topfen (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), Quark (curd, quark, rubbish). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πηγμένο γάλα για τυρί (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

'בי " לב ". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megalszik (Curdle, to curd, to fix, to turn sour, to turn to curds). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cacio fresco (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), ricotta (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), latticino (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese), giuncata (junket), formaggio bianco (cottage cheese, curd, whey cheese, white cheese). (various references)

   

Manx

  

groo as meaig (curds and whey). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urdscay

   

Portuguese

  

requeijão,"queijo branco". (various references)

   

Russian 

  

творог (cheese, cottage cheese, curd, dutch cheese, pot cheese). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

gruth. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

requesón (cottage cheese, curd). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tappning av vassle (dripping of curdled milk, dripping of curds). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сир (cheese). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cawsion. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CURDS

Misspellings

"CURDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acuerdos, cardus, Cedrus, cordis, courd, crudes, crudus, cudz, cueds, curas, curdy, curns, currs, curtz, Czurda, kurdlsh, kurds, Mcgurks, nurds, turds, urds. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CURDS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cruds.

Words within the letters "c-d-r-s-u"

-1 letter: crud, crus, cuds, curd, curs, scud, surd, urds.

-2 letters: cud, cur, urd.

-3 letters: us.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: crudes, cursed, durocs.

 

+2 letters: coursed, crudest, cruised, crusade, crusado, crushed, crusted, curdles, custard, duckers, dysuric, recused, reduces, rescued, sciurid, scoured, secured, seducer, sourced, spruced.

 

+3 letters: accursed, adducers, becursed, burdocks, candours, caroused, censured, chorused, chuddars, chudders, closured, crudites, crunodes, crusaded, crusader, crusades, crusados, cruzados, cudbears, cuddlers, curbside, curdiest, curdlers, curseder, cursedly, curtsied, cuspidor, cussword, custards, custardy, decorous, decorums, decuries, decurves, destruct, douceurs, durances, eductors, inducers, mudrocks, obscured, produces, products, quadrics, reducers, ruddocks, sciurids, sciuroid, scourged, scrouged, scrubbed, scrummed, scrupled, scurried, seducers, subacrid, succored, suckered, surfaced, traduces, uncursed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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