cheese
/t͡ʃiz/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.57 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "He had a gloating expression on his face, and was perseveringly rolling a large cheese along the middle of the road."
- "In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels."
- "1807, Nutt, F. (1807). The Complete Confectioner: Or, The Whole Art of Confectionary Made Easy: Containing, Among a Variety of Useful Matter, the Art of Making the Various Kinds of Biscuits, Drops ... as Also the Most Approved Method of Making Cheeses, Puddings, Cakes &c. in 250 Cheap and Fashionable Receipts. The Result of Many Years Experience with the Celebrated Negri and Witten. United Kingdom: reprinted, for Richard Scott and sold at his bookstore, no. 243 Pearl-street. p.82-3, No.244. Damson Cheese: “Pick the damsons free from stalks···You may make plum or bullace cheese in the same way···”"
- "It's time to add some cheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!"
- "A film ostensibly about the lead singer of a hair metal band killing innocent people on a future planet Earth, Alienator is the epitome of low-budget cheese."
- "2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin cāseusbor. Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz Proto-West Germanic *kāsī Old English ċīese Middle English chese English cheese From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Síes (“cheese”), West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Low German Kees (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /t͡ʃiz/
Usage
- Uncountable
- Countable
- British usage
- Colloquial
- Slang
- Indian usage
- Dated
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Abertam cheese
aerosol cheese
a little bit of bread and no cheese
American cheese
Añejo cheese
apple cheese
apple-cheese
Asiago cheese