Milk

Definition: Milk

Milk

Adjective

1. Resembling milk in color or cloudiness; not clear; "milk glass".

Noun

1. A white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings.

2. Produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young.

3. A river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River.

4. Any of several nutritive milklike liquids.

Verb

1. Take milk from female mammals; "Cows need to be milked every morning".

2. Exploit as much as possible; "I am milking this for all it's worth".

3. Add milk to; "milk the tea".

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

Date "milk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Multilingual Slang

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

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

Synonyms: Milk

Moderation

Measure, juste milieu, golden mean, gr/ariston metron/gr moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, "poppy or mandragora"; wet blanket; palliative.

Semiliquidity

Jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten; carlock, fish glue; ichthyocol, ichthycolla; isinglass; mucus, phlegm, goo; pituite, lava; glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein; treacle; gum, size, glue (tenacity); wax, beeswax.

Crosswords: Milk

Oh great, considering I desecrated your Grandma's remains, found out you were engaged, and had your Father ask me to milk him (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke)

Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of. Magnesia, milk of, one bottle (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

And the milk was black (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan)

His fridge had been out of order for two weeks now. I saw milk standing in there that wasn't in the bottle (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon)

Milk and cookies kept you awake, eh Sebastian (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)

Eating pork and beans or corn flakes wit no milk (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

There goes cheese, eggs, milk and Post Toasties (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

That's when she told me a story 'bout free milk and a cow (Keep Your Hands To Yourself; performing artist: Georgia Satellites)

You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

In a milk white gown (MOONCHILD; performing artist: King Crimson)

If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose? (references; author: unknown)

What do you get from a pampered cow?  Spoiled milk. (references; author: unknown)

To keep milk from turning sour, keep it in the cow. (references; author: unknown)

A pessimist is someone who looks at the land of milk and honey and sees only calories and cholesterol. (references; author: unknown)

Under Milk Wood (1972)

Milk (1966)

Evette More Milk (1966)

Your Morning Milk (1947)

I'll Take Milk (1946)

Milk and Honey (performing artist: Pam Tillis)

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

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Milk and Cream in Afghanistan (reference)

• Alaska Milk Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• PT Ultrajaya Milk Industry & Trading Co: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The Becker Milk Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Dutch Lady Milk Industries Berhad: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The New Goat Handbook: Housing, Care, Feeding, Sickness, and Breeding With a Special Chapter on Using the Milk, Meat, and Hair (reference)

• Milk Mustache Mania: An Inside Look at One of Your Favorite Ad Campaigns (Pokemon) (reference)

• Allergy Cooking With Ease: The No Wheat, Milk, Eggs, Corn, Soy, Yeast, Sugar, Grain, and Gluten Cookbook (reference)

• Recipes for Health: Wheat, Milk & Egg-Free: Over 100 Recipes Which Avoid These Common Allergens (reference)

• The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook: Over 325 Natural Foods Recipes, Free of Wheat, Milk, Eggs, Corn, Yeast, Sugar and Other Common Food Allergens (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Federal Milk Order Market Statistics (reference)

• Michigan Milk Messenger (reference)

• Milk Facts (reference)

• Milk Industry International (reference)

• Milk Production (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Milk & Money (reference)

• The Price Of Milk (reference)

• Milk Money (reference)

• The Show & Tell Series: Milk and Cookies - A Video Snack for Kids of All Ages (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Blue Wonder Power Milk (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Lomographic CyberSampler 2.0 35mm Camera, Milk (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Capresso 201.01 FrothXpress Automatic Milk Frother, Black (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

A lunch sits on a blue tablecloth with a brown paper bag and red napkin. There are carrots, a pear, a sandwich on wheat bread with lettuce (chicken salad) and a carton of milk. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

From an overhead angle, a purple glass of milk is spilled into the frame from the lower left corner across a white counter. Above the glass in the upper left is a green bowl of fruit and cottage cheese. The red lettering in the lower right reads: "Eat Low-fat Dairy Foods". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" June 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Boy! That milk was good. Think I'll take a nap. Note bloody umbilical cord area. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

South Pole Station on a day without a horizon, near "white out" conditions. Flags mark path. One would literally feel like walking in a bowl of milk. There was no surface definition and one had to walk with bent knees because impossible to determine if surface was uneven. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Dr. Tony Picciolo giving a coconut what-for prior to partaking of coconut milk. Credit: Small World.

Milk is one of the most popular agricultural products produced in Missouri. Credit: Charlie Rahm.

Dairy cows (Holsteins) being cooled by sprayers during hot summer to maintain milk production. Using practical cooling methods for maximum milk production--contented, cool, cows give more milk. Eastern Louisiana. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Milk  Milk in the dairy section of the Mapledale Giant in Dale City, VA. . Credit: USDA.

Mother using a nursing breast pump to gather milk for baby for next feeding. Credit: USDA.

Carbonated milk production. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But new milk we can manage

After mass he took his breakfast of rye bread and milk, and then went to work

The cattle which had seemed so beautiful in the country on sunny days revolted him and he could not even look at the milk they yielded

No? You stole a bottle of milk from a porch night before last

While we were thus engaged, I observed a cow passing by, whereupon I pointed to her, and expressed a desire to let me go and milk her.

I often performed this duty of hospitality, waited long enough to milk a whole herd of cows, but did not see the man approaching from the town

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

And milk adds to your fluid intake. (references)

Low-fat milk is a good source of protein. (references)

Consume pasteurized milk and milk products. (references)

Business

The diary industry includes milk beverages, deserts, cheese and butter sectors. (references)

The production of milk beverages and ice creams has risen five-fold during the last decade. (references)

Milk production reached 8.45 million metric tons in 1999, rising by 9%, yet it still saw great development potential. (references)

Children

Kenya

The health care system for school children, which once provided periodic medical checkups and free milk, is defunct. (references)

Economic History

Guatemala

Powdered milk is a very competitive market segment. (references)

Venezuela

Dry milk imports provide almost 50 percent of total consumption needs. (references)

Human Rights

Djibouti

Children of female inmates under the age of 5 sometimes are allowed to stay with their mothers; authorities say that milk is provided for them. (references)

Political Economy

VENEZUELA

Specifically, licenses are required for milk, cheese, oilseeds, and yellow corn. (references)

GHANA

This tax no longer applies to used clothing, powdered milk, paper and plastic products. (references)

Trade

Bangladesh

Milk food can be imported in cans and in bulk. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Cigarettes, wheat, flour, dates, and long-life milk imports have a 100% tariff. (references)

Kenya

Special labeling is required for condensed milk, paints, varnishes, vegetables, and butter ghee. (references)

Travel

Kenya

Fresh milk and milk products are available. (references)

Kenya

Periodic shortages of milk, sugar, flour, etc. (references)

Nicaragua

Yoltamal: a tender corn tamale mixed with milk and other ingredients, wrapped in the leaf of the same corn. (references)

Worker Rights

India

The Maharashtra government passed a law in 1999 banning strikes in essential services, including transport services, milk supply services, the electricity department, and hospitals. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Made of milk

The color of milk

Lives on milk

Milk

Expressions using "milk": 2) skimmed milk powder manufactured by the spray process ♦ a coffee with milk and sugar ♦ accredited milk ♦ acidophilus milk ♦ adulterated milk ♦ alpine milk vetch ♦ animal which gives milk ♦ baby formula milk ♦ breast milk ♦ butter milk ♦ canned milk ♦ carton of milk ♦ certified milk ♦ chocolate milk ♦ cleansing milk ♦ cocoa nut milk ♦ coconut milk ♦ coffee with milk ♦ come home with the milk ♦ concentrated milk ♦ condensed milk ♦ cow in milk ♦ cows in milk ♦ cow's milk ♦ cows' milk ♦ cream of milk ♦ crude milk ♦ cry over spilt milk ♦ desiccated milk ♦ devil's milk ♦ dried milk ♦ dried partly skimmed milk ♦ dried skimmed milk ♦ drinking milk ♦ drop of milk ♦ dry milk ♦ evaporated milk ♦ fresh milk ♦ full cream milk ♦ get milk ♦ goat's milk ♦ goats' milk ♦ goat's milk cheese ♦ homogenised milk ♦ homogenized milk ♦ humanized milk ♦ ice milk ♦ infant's milk ♦ it is no good crying over spilt milk ♦ land flowing with milk and honey ♦ land of milk and honey ♦ liquid milk ♦ made out of pure milk ♦ malted milk ♦ mild as mother's milk ♦ milk adder ♦ milk and honey ♦ milk and water ♦ Milk Banks ♦ milk bar ♦ milk bottle ♦ milk bush ♦ milk can ♦ milk carton ♦ milk chocolate ♦ milk churn ♦ milk collector ♦ milk cow ♦ milk crust ♦ milk cystern ♦ Milk Ejection ♦ milk farm ♦ milk fever ♦ milk float ♦ milk formula room ♦ milk girl ♦ milk glass ♦ milk gowan ♦ Milk Hypersensitivity ♦ milk intolerance ♦ milk jug ♦ milk kitchen ♦ milk knot ♦ milk leg ♦ milk lorry ♦ milk meats ♦ milk mirror ♦ milk molar ♦ milk of human kindness ♦ milk of lime ♦ milk of magnesia ♦ milk of magnezia ♦ milk of starch ♦ milk parsley ♦ milk pea ♦ milk pie ♦ milk powder ♦ milk product ♦ milk products ♦ Milk Proteins ♦ milk pudding. Additional references.

Beginning with "milk": milk-and, milk-and-blood, milk-and-meat, milk-bank, milk-bar, milk-based, milk-borne, milk-bottle, milk-bottling, milk-break, milk-brother, milk-buying, milk-can, milk-cans, milk-cart, milk-chocolate, milk-churns, milk-clotting, milk-cows, milk-crate, milk-crates, milk-derivative, milk-distribution, milk-drinking, milk-farmers, milk-fed, milk-fermenting, milk-float, milk-free, milk-gauge, milk-girl, milk-glass, milk-green, milk-horses, milk-house, milk-in-schools, milk-like, Milk-livered, milk-making, milk-manufacturers, milk-meats, milk-mother, milk-mug, milk-nuts, milk-pail, milk-pails, milk-pale, milk-powder, milk-processing, milk-producers, milk-producing, milk-production, milk-ration, milk-recorded, milk-round, milk-sated, milk-sensitive, milk-shake, milk-shakes, milk-sister, Milk-snatcher, milk-soaked, milk-sop, milk-sops, milk-specific, milk-vat, Milk-Vetch, milk-white, milk-withholding, milk-with-soya, milk-yield, milk-yields.

Ending with "milk": breast-milk.

Afrikaans

melk. (various references)

Albanian

mjel, shfrytëzoj (avail oneself of, embrace, exercise, exploit, harness, maintain, make the best, make the most of, make use of, quarry, use, utilize, work, work out), qumështor (cheese-cake, lacteous), qumësht (latex), lëng (dip, dissolution, fluid, juice, liquid, liquor, sap, wash, water), jap qumësht, gji (bay, bight, boob, bosom, bowels, breast, chest, entrails, gulf, inlet, womb). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نهب (despoilment, flay, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, pillage, piracy, plunder, raid, ransack, rapine, ravage, rifle, rip off, robbery, sack, sacking, spoil, spoliation, stole, strip), ‏حليب (milking), ‏حلب (milking), ‏سلب (bereave, depredation, desiccation, despoil, dispossess, dispossession, divest, evisceration, flay, fleece, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, pillage, piracy, plunder, plundering, raid, ransack, rape, rapine, ravish, ravishment, rejoice, riffle, rifle, rob, robbery, sack, skin, spoil, spoliation, steal, stick up, strip), ‏إستنزف (deplete, drain, exhaust), ‏إستغل (avail, exploit, follow up, harness, impose, presume, profiteer, quarry, take advantage of, tap, trade on). (various references)

Asturian

lleche. (various references)

Basque

esne. (various references)

Bemba

umukaka, ukukaka. (various references)

Blackfoot

ónnikis. (various references)

Bulgarian 

мляко, млечен сок, млечен (lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, lactic, milky), експлоатирам (drive, exploit, maintain, operate, run, work), изтръгвам (elicit, extort, get, pull out, rip out, root from, snatch, tear out, uproot, wrench, wrest, yank), извличам отрова, извличам (derive, distil, drag out, draw, educe, elicit, excerpt, exhaust, extract, recover), използувам (apply, embrace, employ, exploit, impose, impress, play on, put on, put upon, seize, take advantage of, use, utilize), изигравам (bamboozle, cheat, con, diddle, do smb., fob, hoodwink, let in, outwit, play out, prey, sell, skin, skunk, suck in, trepan, trick, trim), доя, добивам сок, давам мляко. (various references)

Catalan

llet. (various references)

Cebuano

gatas. (various references)

Chamorro

leche. (various references)

Chinese 

牛奶 . (various references)

Cornish

léth. (various references)

Czech

mléko (lac). (various references)

Danish

malke, mælk. (various references)

Dutch

melken (milking), melk. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

ñuñu. (various references)

Esperanto

melki, lakto. (various references)

Faeroese

mjólk. (various references)

Farsi 

شیره کشیدن از, شیره گیاهی (Latex, Sap), شیر (Lion, Sop), دوشیدن . (various references)

Finnish

maito, lypsää (yield milk). (various references)

French

traire, lait (cow's milk). (various references)

Frisian

molke. (various references)

German

Milch (Milt, roe, soft roe), melken (fleece, milking). (various references)

Greek 

αρμέγω, γάλα (churn), αμέλγω. (various references)

Guarani

sopa, paraguái. (various references)

Hebrew 

חלב. (various references)

Hungarian

tej. (various references)

Icelandic

mjólka, mjólk. (various references)

Indonesian

memerah (redden (color:), squeeze), susu. (various references)

Inuktitut

immuk. (various references)

Irish

crúigh, bligh, bainne. (various references)

Italian

latte (milky substance), mungere. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

牛乳 , ミリ波 (dairy, milk bar, milk coffee, milk fiber rice, milk plant, milk shake, milky hat, Milky Way, mille-feuille, millennium, milli-wave, Milwaukee, mink, mink coat, white coffee, white tea), 乳汁 (latex, milky juice), 乳　 (breast, loop), 乳 (breast, loop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎゅうにゅう, ミルク , にゅうじゅう (latex, milky juice), ちち (breast, father, lagging, loop, slow). (various references)

Kongo

midiki. (various references)

Korean 

젖. (various references)

Lombard

latt. (various references)

Macedonian

mleko. (various references)

Malay

susu. (various references)

Manx

binjean (curd; eelwrack root, curdled milk, junket), bainney baarit (skim milk), bainney bithag (churning milk), bainney braghee (malted milk), bainney clabbagh (curdled milk), bainney goair (goat's milk, marsh lousewort), bainney kee (breast milk, suck), baare (apex, cap, climax, crest of wave, curl, end, film on milk, interval, point, ruin, summit, surface, tip, toe, top), bainney laairagh (mare's milk), striggagh (slow to give milk), broish (farrago, miscellany, oatcake in milk, soup with bread included, stew), chiulagh (cream, top of milk), keyrrey vluight (milk ewe), neuhaaley (ceasing to flow, stoppage of milk), shocklaid vainnagh (milk chocolate), shugyr bainney (lactose, milk sugar), bainney keyrragh (ewe's milk, sheep milk). (various references)

Maori

miraka-tia. (various references)

Maya

chu'uch. (various references)

Mohawk

onònta. (various references)

Norwegian

melk. (various references)

Occitan

lèit. (various references)

Papago

wihbi. (various references)

Papiamen

lechi, hala lechi. (various references)

Pig Latin

ilkmay.(various references)

Polish

mleko. (various references)

Portuguese

leite, ordenhar. (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

leite. (various references)

Provencal

lach. (various references)

Romanian

lapte. (various references)

Romansch

latg. (various references)

Romany

thoot. (various references)

Ruanda

amata. (various references)

Russian 

молочный (dairy, deciduous, lacteal, lactic, milch, milky), молоко, млечный сок (chute, chyle, latex), доить молоко молочный, доить. (various references)

Samoan

susu. (various references)

Scottish

bainne (nm.ind. milk). (various references)

Sepedi

lebese. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

musti (strip), mleko, mlečni (creamery, lactic), pomusti, izmusti (fleece). (various references)

Shona

mukaka. (various references)

Sicilian

latti. (various references)

Sotho

lebese. (various references)

Spanish

leche (clabber, cum, jazz, semen, spunk). (various references)

Sranan

merki. (various references)

Swahili

maziwa. (various references)

Swazi

lú-bîsi. (various references)

Swedish

mjölka, mjölk. (various references)

Tagalog

gátas. (various references)

Tahitian

t‘ha'ari (with coconut milk), ha'ari (coconut milk). (various references)

Thai

นมข้น (จากการที่น้ำในนมระเหยไปส่วนหนึ่ง) (evaporated milk). (various references)

Turkish

sağmak, süt (foster-, galactic, galacto-, lactic). (various references)

Turkmen 

sьяt, sagmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

молоко, латекс (latex), доїти, давати молоко. (various references)

Vietnamese 

học thuyết đơn giản. (various references)

Welsh

llaeth (buttermilk). (various references)

Zulu

ulubisi, ubisi. (various references)

ga. (various references)

lac, lac lactis, lacta, lacte, lactis, mulgeatis, mulsisti, mulsum. (various references)

paêma. (various references)

melcan. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "milk": milked, milker, milkers, milkfish, milkfishes, milkier, milkiest, milkily, milkiness, milkinesses, milking, milkmaid, milkmaids, milkman, milkmen, milks, milkshake, milkshakes, milkshed, milksheds, milksop, milksops, milkweed, milkweeds, milkwood, milkwoods, milkwort, milkworts, milky. (additional references)

Words ending with "milk": buttermilk, foremilk, overmilk, soymilk. (additional references)

Words containing "milk": buttermilks, foremilks, overmilked, overmilking, overmilks, soymilks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Milk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amelko, iml, jilk, Malak, malik, Malk, Melik, Melk, mhil, miak, mik, Mikk, Mikko, Milc, milct, milek, milf, Mili, milka, milke, milko, milkt, Miln, milo, Milp, milq, miluk, milz, mirk, Mlib, Mlikh, moik, molak, molk, Mulk, myk, myl, mylk, Myln, nelk, nilc, nilk, pilk, rilk, smilk, vilk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ilk, mil.

-2 letters: li, mi.

+1 letter: kelim, kilim, milks, milky.

+2 letters: kalium, kalmia, kelims, kilims, malkin, meikle, mickle, milked, milker, miskal.

+3 letters: armlike, gemlike, gumlike, kalimba, kaliums, kalmias, kremlin, lambkin, limbeck, limpkin, linkman, linkmen, malkins, manlike, maplike, mickler, mickles, milkers, milkier, milkily, milking, milkman, milkmen, milksop, mirkily, miskals, mislike, muckily, murkily, muskily, smokily, soymilk.

+4 letters: balmlike, beamlike, comblike, cormlike, domelike, drumlike, foamlike, foremilk, fumelike, gamelike, hemplike, homelike, hymnlike, kalimbas, kilogram, kilomole, kremlins, lambkill, lambkins, lamblike, lambskin, leukemia, leukemic, limbecks, limekiln, limerick, limpkins, linksman, linksmen, mackling, masklike, mastlike, mazelike, micklest, milkfish, milkiest, milkmaid, milkshed, milksops, milkweed, milkwood, milkwort, millcake, millwork, misliked, misliker, mislikes, moatlike, moleskin, moonlike, mosslike, mothlike, overmilk, palmlike, plumlike, pumplike, scumlike, seamlike, selamlik, silkworm, skimpily, soymilks, stemlike, tomblike, womblike, wormlike.