no |
1. det. Not any. | |
no one | |
There is no water left. | |
No hot dogs were sold yesterday. | |
No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous. | |
There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.) | |
2. det. Hardly any. | |
We'll be finished in no time at all. | |
3. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something). | |
No smoking | |
There's no stopping her once she gets going. | |
4. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully. | |
My mother's no fool. | |
Working nine to five every day is no life. | |
5. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all. | |
It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome. | |
I just want to find out whether she's coming or no. | |
6. part. Used to show disagreement or negation. | |
No, you are mistaken. | |
No, you may not watch television now. | |
7. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question. | |
"Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.") | |
8. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement | |
No, totally. | |
No, yeah, that's exactly right. | |
"Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!". | |
No, yeah | |
9. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval. | |
10. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition. | |
The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no". | |
11. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No. | |
12. n. Alternative form of No. | |
churn |
1. v. To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream. | |
Now the cream is churned to make butter. | |
no-churn ice cream | |
2. v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake. | |
I was so nervous my stomach was churning. | |
4. v. (informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions. | |
5. n. A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter. | |
a butter churn | |
6. n. (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider. | |
7. n. (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers. | |
8. n. Cyclic activity that achieves nothing. | |
ice |
1. n. Water in frozen (solid) form. | |
2. n. Covering made of frozen water on a river or other water basin in cold season. | |
3. n. (physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide. | |
4. n. (astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form. | |
5. n. A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar. | |
6. n. Any substance having the appearance of ice. | |
7. n. (slang) One or more diamonds. | |
8. n. (slang) Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs. | |
9. n. (ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played. | |
10. v. To cool with ice, as a beverage. | |
11. v. To become ice, to freeze. | |
12. v. (slang) To murder. | |
13. v. To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc. | |
14. v. (ice hockey) To put out a team for a match. | |
Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season | |
15. v. (ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing. | |
If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone. | |
cream |
1. n. The butterfat/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… | |
2. n. (standard of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it mi | |
3. n. (standard of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream). | |
4. n. A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream. | |
(color panel, FFFF9D) | |
5. n. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream. | |
6. n. (figuratively) The best part of something. | |
the cream of the crop; the cream of a collection of books or pictures | |
7. n. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment) | |
You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream. | |
8. n. (vulgar, slang) Semen. | |
9. n. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies. | |
10. adj. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour. | |
11. v. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process. | |
Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture. | |
12. v. To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream. | |
13. v. (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively. | |
We creamed the opposing team! | |
14. v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender). | |
15. v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing). | |
16. v. (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency. | |
17. v. To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream. | |
18. v. (transitive, figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of. | |
19. v. To furnish with, or as if with, cream. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To gather or form cream. | |