milk has definitions from the fields of biology,food,geography,zoology,agriculture
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[ noun ] (food) a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

Used in print

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)

If it 's true that contented cows give more milk , why should n't happy ball players produce more base_hits ?

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

Depending_on the organism , there may be multiplication in some food or beverage products , i.e. , in milk for_example .

One must include the preparation of soft_drinks and the processing of milk and milk products .

One must include the preparation of soft_drinks and the processing of milk and milk products .

(Jacob Robbins et al., "The thyroid-stimulating...)

There it seems that the goitrogen ingested by dairy animals is itself inactive but is converted in the animal to an active goitrogen , which is then secreted in the milk .

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[ verb ] (zoology,agriculture) take milk from female mammals

Examples

"Cows need to be milked every morning"

Used in print

(Guideposts BR-E01. Mr. America, 4:6 (November, 1961)...)

Starr_Jones gets_up every morning at five o ' clock , milks his family cow , attends to farm chores , and_then takes a two-hour train trip to New_York .

Related terms

draw strip

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[ verb ] exploit as much as possible

Examples

"I am milking this for all it's worth"

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

He milks the latest scientific advances , translating them into his own special Buck_Rogers vocabulary to huckster his fake machines as a cure-all for everything from hay_fever to sexual impotence and cancer .

Related terms

exploit

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[ noun ] (biology,food) produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young

Used in print

(Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)

Juanita and Mrs._Tussle kept Kate in bed a week until her milk dried .

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[ verb ] add milk to

Examples

"milk the tea"

Related terms

add

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[ noun ] (geography) a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River

Synonyms

Milk_River

Related terms

river Montana

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[ adjective ] resembling milk in color or cloudiness; not clear

Examples

"milk glass"

Related terms

opaque

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[ noun ] (food) any of several nutritive milklike liquids
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