word-vault/dist/data/cards/mi/milk.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "milk",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the white liquid produced by cows, goats and some other animals as food for their young and used as a drink by humans",
            "labels": "(British English)(North American English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a pint/litre of milk"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a bottle/carton of milk"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She drank a glass of cool frothy milk."
                },
                {
                    "text": "fresh/dried/powdered milk"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you take milk in your tea?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**milk products** *(= butter, cheese, etc.)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "milk production/prices"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I am allergic to **cow's milk**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**full-fat/semi-skimmed/skimmed milk** *(= milk with none/some/most of the fat removed)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Shall I get **skim milk** or 2%?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't drink the milk—it's off."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dried milk keeps better than fluid milk."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The milk has gone off/​turned sour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They've stopped delivering milk in our area."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a calcium-fortified milk which provides more calcium than regular milk"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dairy cows produce more milk when listening to music."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why is there no milk in the fridge?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Drinks"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["fresh", "curdled", "sour"],
                "… of milk": ["litre/​liter", "pint", "bottle"],
                "verb + milk": ["drink", "have", "take"],
                "milk + verb": ["be off", "go bad", "go off"],
                "milk + noun": ["powder", "beverage", "drink"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the white liquid that is produced by women and female mammals for feeding their babies",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "breast milk"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mammals rely on mother's milk for nutrition and immune protection."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She expressed some milk so her husband could do the night feeding."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["fresh", "curdled", "sour"],
                "… of milk": ["litre/​liter", "pint", "bottle"],
                "verb + milk": ["drink", "have", "take"],
                "milk + verb": ["be off", "go bad", "go off"],
                "milk + noun": ["powder", "beverage", "drink"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a white liquid produced by or made from plants",
            "examples": [],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["fresh", "curdled", "sour"],
                "… of milk": ["litre/​liter", "pint", "bottle"],
                "verb + milk": ["drink", "have", "take"],
                "milk + verb": ["be off", "go bad", "go off"],
                "milk + noun": ["powder", "beverage", "drink"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to waste time worrying about something that has happened that you cannot do anything about",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "As the saying goes—**it's no use crying over spilt milk**."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a place where life is pleasant and easy and people are very happy",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He dreamed of emigrating to Canada—the land of milk and honey."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "kind behaviour, considered to be natural to humans",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mɪlk/",
                "audio": "mi/milk/milk__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mɪlk/",
                "audio": "mi/milk/milk__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English milc, milcian, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch melk and German Milch, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mulgere and Greek amelgein ‘to milk’."
}