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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ch?z, IPA^(key): /t??i?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??iz/
• Rhymes: -i?z
• Homophone: qis

Etymology 1

From Middle English chese, from Old English ??ese, specifically the Anglian form ??se, from Proto-West Germanic *k?s?, borrowed from Latin c?seus. Doublet of queso.

Noun

cheese (countable and uncountable, plural cheeses)

1. (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
2. (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
3. (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
4. (uncountable, Britain) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
   • 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···”

5. A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
6. (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
7. (uncountable, slang) Money.
8. (countable, Britain) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
9. (uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
10. (uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
11. (vulgar, slang) Smegma.
12. (technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
    • 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.

13. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
14. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
15. A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

Synonyms

• (product): See Thesaurus:cheese
• (money): See Thesaurus:money

Antonyms

• (circuitry): fill (“dummy pattern to increase pattern density”)

Hyponyms

• (dairy product): See Thesaurus:cheese

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: sis

Borrowings

Translations

See also

• cheese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cheese (recreational drug) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• butter
• cream
• milk
• turophile
• yogurt

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

1. To prepare curds for making cheese.
2. (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
3. (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.

Derived terms

• cheese up

Interjection

cheese!

1. (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

Derived terms

• say cheese

Descendants

• ? Icelandic: sís
• ? Japanese: ??? (ch?zu)

Translations

Etymology 2

Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of Persian ???? (??z, “thing”), the term does not occur earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards".

Noun

cheese (uncountable)

1. (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
2. (slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.

Derived terms

• big cheese
• sub-cheese

References

Etymology 3

Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration of cease.

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

1. (slang) To stop; to refrain from.

2. (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

Derived terms

• cheese it
• cheesed off

Etymology 4

From cheesy.

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

1. (video games) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter.

2. (video games) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

Synonyms

• (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game): rush, zerg

English

Etymology

From Old French mortalite, from Latin mort?lit?s, from mort?lis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m???tæl?ti/

Noun

mortality (countable and uncountable, plural mortalities)

1. The state or quality of being mortal.
   1. The state of being susceptible to death.

      Antonym: immortality

      • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet 13 in Amoretti and Epithalamion, London: William Ponsonby,^[1]

        […] her minde remembreth her mortalitie,

        what so is fayrest shall to earth returne.

      • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 65,^[2]

        Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,

        But sad mortality o’er-sways their power,

        How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,

        Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

      • 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to John Gay in Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, London, 1735, Volume 2, p. 208,^[3]

        I have been perpetually troubled with sickness of late, which has made me so melancholy that the Immortality of the Soul has been my constant Speculation, as the Mortality of my Body my constant Plague.

      • 1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Timbuctoo” in A Complete Collection of the English Poems Which Have Obtained the Chancellor’s Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge, Cambridge: Macmillan, 1859, p. 156,^[4]

        “ […] Thy sense is clogg’d with dull mortality;

        They spirit fetter’d with the bond of clay:

        Open thine eyes and see.”

      • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, Chapter 2, p. 157,^[5]

        But on that onerous day [of the funeral], oppressed beyond relief, my own mortality was borne in upon me on sluggish tides of doom.

   2. (archaic) The quality of being punishable by death.
      • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar, London: Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, Act II, p. 28,^[6]

        […] actions of Charity do alleviate, as I may say, and take off from the Mortality of the Sin.

   3. (archaic) The quality of causing death.

      Synonyms: deadliness, lethality

      • 1685, Thomas Willis, Tract of Fevers, Chapter 15, in The London Practice of Physick, London: Thomas Basset and William Crooke, p. 626,^[7]

        […] the Fevers of Women in Child-bed; to wit, both the Lacteal, and that called Putrid, which, by reason of its Mortality, deserves to be call’d Malignant.

2. The number of deaths.
   1. Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).

      Synonym: casualty rate

      • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 200,^[8]

        […] the Mortality was so great in the Yard or Alley, that there was no Body left to give Notice to the Buriers or Sextons, that there were any dead Bodies there to be bury’d.

      • 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 3, Chapter 9, p. 242,^[9]

        […] the doctors stood aghast at the swift mortality among the untended sufferers […]

      • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando, Penguin, 1942, Chapter 1, p. 23,^[10]

        The Great Frost was, historians tell us, the most severe that has ever visited these islands. Birds froze in mid air and fell like stones to the ground. […] The mortality among sheep and cattle was enormous.

   2. (biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

      Synonyms: death rate, mortality rate

      • 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 8, p. 97,^[11]

        In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.

      • 1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, London: J. Johnson, Chapter 2, pp. 32-33,^[12]

        Some of the objects of enquiry would be […] what was the comparative mortality among the children of the most distressed part of the community, and those who lived rather more at their ease […]

      • 1918, Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians, London: Chatto and Windus, “Florence Nightingale,” Chapter 3, p. 146,^[13]

        And, even in peace and at home, what was the sanitary condition of the Army? The mortality in the barracks was, she found, nearly double the mortality in civil life.

      • 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 8, p. 114,^[14]

        […] a drought year brought conditions especially favorable to the beetle and the mortality of elms went up 1000 per cent.

3. (figuratively) Death.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9, lines 774-777,^[15]

     Why am I mockt with death, and length’nd out

     To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet

     Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth

     Insensible,

   • 1728, John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, Dublin: George Risk et al., Act II, Scene 11, p. 37,^[16]

     Learn to bear your Husband’s Death like a reasonable Woman. ’Tis not the fashion, now-a-days so much as to affect Sorrow upon these Occasions. No Woman would ever marry, if she had not the Chance of Mortality for a Release.

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Chapter 10, p. 154,^[17]

     […] like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man’s bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption.

   • 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, New York: Dell, 1962, Chapter 10, p. 112,^[18]

     […] the moldy odor of mortality hung wet in the air with the sulphurous fog […]

4. (figuratively, archaic) Mortals collectively.

   Synonyms: humankind, humanity, mankind

   • 1604, Michael Drayton, Moyses in a Map of His Miracles, London, Book 1, pp. 8-9,^[19]

     It is not fit Mortalitie should knowe

     What his eternall prouidence decreed,

   • c. 1615, George Chapman (translator), Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniel Butter, Book 23, p. 359,^[20]

     […] sleepe seiz’d his weary eye,

     That salues all care, to all mortality.

Derived terms

Related terms

• mortal

Translations