cream
The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
Noun 4 meanings
The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
“Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…”
A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
Adjective 1 meaning
Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
Verb 4 meanings
To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
“Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.”
To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
Etymology
From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)).
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CREAM at a glance
CREAM has 5 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (C 3 + R 1 + E 1 + A 1 + M 3) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,328 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with cream
All rhymesOne letter away
- DREAM8
- BREAM9
- CREAK11
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