Milk - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |mɪlk|  American pronunciation of the word milk
Brit.  |mɪlk|  British pronunciation of the word milk

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
Cows need to be milked every morning
- exploit as much as possible
I am milking this for all it's worth
- add milk to
milk the tea

Extra examples

...unscrupulous people trying to milk the welfare system for all it's worth...

Would you like some milk in your tea?

The tiny fox cubs drink nothing but their mother's milk.

Their landlord regularly milks them for extra money by claiming for damage to his property.

He seems to be milking the incident for all it's worth (=getting as much from it as possible).

I helped to milk the cows.

They had risen at 5.30 to do the milking.

Cows need to be milked every morning

I am milking this for all it's worth

She spilled the milk just as she was getting up.

The price of milk rose.

Milk, meat, and other animal products

...a trip to the supermarket with the express purpose of buying milk...

They described the process used to separate cream from milk.

Cook the milk over low heat.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: milk
he/she/it: milks
present participle: milking
past tense: milked
past participle: milked
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