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Definition cream

Etymology

From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek ?????? (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin cr?mum (“skim”), 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”)). Displaced native Old English r?am (“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).

Noun

cream (countable and uncountable, plural creams)

1. The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
   1. (standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
   2. (standards of identity, Britain) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
2. A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
3. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
4. (figuratively) The best part of something.
5. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
6. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
7. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.

Adjective

cream (not comparable)

1. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

Verb

cream (third-person singular simple present creams, present participle creaming, simple past and past participle creamed)

1. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
2. To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
3. (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
4. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
5. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing).
6. (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
7. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
8. (transitive, figuratively) To take off the best or choicest part of.
9. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
10. (intransitive) To gather or form cream.

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