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milks

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for milks.

Editorial note

When the cow is uncomfortable due to lack of milking, the system milks the cow.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of milks gathered in one view.

noun

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

noun

A surname.

noun

(countable, informal) An individual serving of milk.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for milks.

noun

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

noun

A surname.

noun

(countable, informal) An individual serving of milk.

noun

(countable or invariant) An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.

Example sentences

1

When the cow is uncomfortable due to lack of milking, the system milks the cow.

2

Like it or not, EA buys a company, milks it for what its worth, then kill it off.

3

Some comic character cannot be owned by a corporation which milks it for decades and centennials.

4

I'm sure Oracle milks commercial Solaris efficiently, but I imagine it's hard to find new customers for it.

5

Wall street and Silicon valley basically milks them away.

6

I've done the same experiments with curdling non-dairy milks (to replace buttermilk in biscuits), and have done several experiments blending various oils and additional ingredients to replicate butter.

7

If anything, Microsoft will become like Computer Associates (CA Technologies), a company that milks products enterprise is hooked on and can't quit, squeezing money out of these things for decades to come.

8

) and usually Amazon milks it to its limit.

9

However, most people have no such sense about sugar, giving kids juice boxes, chocolate milks, and putting soda machines in schools for them to buy whenever they have a little extra allowance left over.

10

One thing that comes to mind that's used widely to thicken things like non-dairy milks (Soy/Rice/Almond) or anything that needs to be thickened/gelled is carrageenan, a seaweed extract that's been tied in multiple peer-reviewed animal studies to cancer.

11

Ambassador (Detroit-Windor); Peace Bridge (Buffalo,NY); Rainbow Bridge (Niagara Falls)) because then it would strike fear into people about not being caught in the blast but being on the bridge that is collapsing (Hollywood milks this one all the time).

12

It is where young, naive people like myself put their life savings only to have it crushed by people who were richer than me, who could generate volume on whim, perform insider trading while not worrying about the consequences, and take bailouts from a government that milks the rest of the population for taxes.

Quote examples

1

He milks the government through other means such as crypto, llc’s, and overseas bribes “I mean deals”.

2

I cheat and eat Corn Flakes and plain Cheerios with various types of fortified "milks".

3

In the "real food" aisles, other than raw soybeans and tofu and some soy "milks" (and soy milk is getting pretty far away from "real food") its pretty easy to avoid soy.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use milks in a sentence?

When the cow is uncomfortable due to lack of milking, the system milks the cow.

What does milks mean?

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

What part of speech is milks?

milks is commonly used as noun.