Butter (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
  2. this substance, processed for cooking and table use.
  3. any of various other soft spreads for bread: apple butter; peanut butter.
  4. any of various substances of butterlike consistency, as various metallic chlorides, and certain vegetable oils solid at ordinary temperatures.
verb (used with object)
  1. to put butter on or in; spread or grease with butter.
  2. to apply a liquefied bonding material to (a piece or area), as mortar to a course of bricks.
  3. to cover (edges to be welded together) with a preliminary surface of the weld metal.
Verb Phrases
  1. to flatter someone in order to gain a favor: He suspected that they were buttering him up when everyone suddenly started being nice to him.
noun
    • an edible fatty whitish-yellow solid made from cream by churning, for cooking and table use
    • (as modifier)
  1. any substance with a butter-like consistency, such as peanut butter or vegetable butter
  2. to look innocent, although probably not so
verb (tr)
  1. to put butter on or in
  2. to flatter
Butter (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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