Milk (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. an opaque white or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals, serving for the nourishment of their young.
  2. this liquid as secreted by cows, goats, or certain other animals and used by humans for food or as a source of butter, cheeses, yogurt, etc.
  3. a glass, carton, etc., of cow's milk: We ordered two milks for the children.
  4. any liquid resembling the milk of animals, as the liquid within a coconut, the juice or sap of certain plants, or various pharmaceutical or cosmetic preparations: the milk of the rubber tree;a gentle cleansing milk for your skin.
  5. a whitish, potable liquid made of ground nuts, legumes, seeds, or grain blended with water and often a sweetener, used especially as a substitute for dairy milk, its main ingredient as specified:nut milks;almond milk;oat milk;rice milk.
verb (used with object)
  1. to press or draw milk from the udder or breast of.
  2. to get something from, especially in a way that exploits or defrauds: The swindler milked her of all her savings.
  3. to elicit or draw out a response from someone: He knows how to milk an audience for laughs.The interview was an attempt to milk some sympathy out of what should have been a private tragedy.
  4. to extract with effort as if by milking; squeeze: He always has to milk the last bit of toothpaste from the tube.She tried to milk a few more billable hours out of the contract.
verb (used without object)
  1. to yield milk, as a cow: We called the vet when two of our Holsteins suddenly stopped milking.
  2. to milk a cow or other mammal.
Idioms
  1. to lament what cannot be changed or corrected; express sorrow for past actions or events: Crying over spilled milk will do you no good now.
noun
    • a whitish nutritious fluid produced and secreted by the mammary glands of mature female mammals and used for feeding their young until weaned
    • the milk of cows, goats, or other animals used by man as a food or in the production of butter, cheese, etc
  2. any similar fluid in plants, such as the juice of a coconut
  3. any of various milklike pharmaceutical preparations, such as milk of magnesia
  4. to lament something that cannot be altered
verb
  1. to draw milk from the udder of (a cow, goat, or other animal)
  2. (of cows, goats, or other animals) to yield milk
  3. to draw off or tap in small quantities
  4. to extract as much money, help, etc, as possible from
  5. to extract venom, sap, etc, from
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