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Sour Cream

Definition: Sour Cream

Sour Cream

Noun

1. Artificially soured light cream.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Sour Cream

Synonym: soured cream (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sour Cream

English words defined with "sour cream": beef Stroganoff, bitok, blini, blinychicken paprika, chicken paprikashpork-and-veal goulashSmitane. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sour Cream

DomainUsage

Clever

Why is there an expiration date on my sour cream container? (references; author: unknown)

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

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Commercial Usage: Sour Cream

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

  • Authorized International Edition of the Soyuzmultfilm Library (in Russian) Vol 42: The Sour Cream Village series (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Photo Album: Sour Cream

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(1) color slide shows a pint of Breakstone brand sour cream. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

From on overhead angle, a plate of potatoes and green beans, a bowl of tomatoes and yellow peppers with sour cream dip and a tossed salad are shown on a white tablecloth. Across the middle of the table, grey letters read: "Include 3-5 servings of vegetables daily". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" April 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sour Cream

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Foods high in saturated fats such as fatty meats, butter, bacon, cream (light, coffee, sour cream, etc.), and whole milk cheeses are likely to be high in total fat. Most foods with saturated fat are also high in cholesterol because they are fats from animal origin. (references)

Economic History

Moldova

Hincesti dairy is currently producing milk, buttermilk, sour cream, liquid and regular yogurt, reajenka (liquid sour cream) and butter. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sour Cream

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

sour cream

72

sour cream recipe

56

sour cream chicken enchiladas

29

sour cream coffee cake

25

sour cream enchiladas

15

sour cream dip

9

sour cream gravy

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

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Modern Translation: Sour Cream

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

Albanian

  

shtalpë, salcë kosi. (various references)

   

Asturian

  

ñata agrín. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сметана (cream). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

aslom nga gatas. (various references)

   

Danish

  

syrnet floede, sur fløde, creme fraiche. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zure room. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

surrómi. (various references)

   

French

  

crème aigre, crème acide. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

sûre rjemme. (various references)

   

German

  

saure Sahne, Sauerrahm. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κρέμα όξινη, όξινη κρέμα. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tejföl (clotted cream, Devonshire cream). (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

immuk igunaqsimajuq. (various references)

   

Italian

  

crema acida. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

サロン的 (exclusive, sanction, sanctuary, Sangerism, sangria, sans couture, seamless, social, sour, Sun, sunglasses, Sunkist, suntan oil, thank you, Thanksgiving Day). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

サワークリー . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oursay eamcray

   

Portuguese

  

nata acre, nata ácida. (various references)

   

Provencal

  

crema agra. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сметана. (various references)

   

Samoan

  

kulimi oona. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kisela pavlaka. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nata agria, nata ácida / nata salada, nata ácida. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gräddfil. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ekşi krema. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sour Cream

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-m-o-r-r-s-u"

-1 letter: carouser, racemous.

-2 letters: acerous, armours, armures, arouser, carouse, carroms, coarser, courser, curares, morceau, mucosae, remoras, roamers, scourer.

-3 letters: amours, amuser, armers, armors, armour, armure, arouse, cameos, carers, caroms, carrom, causer, cerous, cesura, coarse, comers, corers, course, creams, crores, crouse, cruors, curare, curers, curser, cursor, macers, macros, mouser, mucors, mucosa, mucose, mucros, murras, murres.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-m-o-r-r-s-u"
 

+3 letters: archesporium, crematoriums, macropterous, mercurations.

 

+4 letters: counterstream, neuromuscular, superromantic.

 

+5 letters: countermarches, countermeasure, counterstreams, macronutrients, macrostructure, supramolecular.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sour Cream


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 75 72      43 72 65 61 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01000011 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#117 &#114 &#32 &#67 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0075 0072      0043 0072 0065 0061 006D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5381878423784716779

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INDEX

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


  

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