Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cream line

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.56 in modern English

Syllables: cream -line
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The layer of cream that floats to the top of a bottle of milk that has not been homogenized.

Example Sentences

"There is produced, however, at this temperature a cooked taste and the cream line is reduced to a greater extent than when the milk is heated and blown at 145° F."
"As pasteurization reduced cream line by about 15% some dairymen slightly under-pasteurized their milk in order to outsell their competitors."
"As experts debated its merits, ordinary citizens remained doubtful about pasteurized milk because the heating process of pasteurization altered one of the elements they used to evaluate milk's quality: the cream line."

Etymology

From cream + line.

Inflected Forms

cream lines (plural) creamline (alternative)

Questions

What does cream line mean?: The layer of cream that floats to the top of a bottle of milk that has not been homogenized.
Where does cream line come from?: From cream + line.

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