Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cream \Cream\ (kr[=e]m), n. [F. cr[^e]me, perh. fr. LL. crema cream of milk; cf. L. cremor thick juice or broth, perh. akin to cremare to burn.]
The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface. [R.]
A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
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A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
In vain she tries her paste and creams, To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
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The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures. Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant. --Shelton. Bavarian cream, a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold. Cold cream, an ointment made of white wax, almond oil, rose water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and lips. Cream cheese, a kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added. Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise. Cream nut, the Brazil nut. Cream of lime.
A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air.
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A thick creamy emulsion of lime in water.
Cream of tartar (Chem.), purified tartar or argol; so called because of the crust of crystals which forms on the surface of the liquor in the process of purification by recrystallization. It is a white crystalline substance, with a gritty acid taste, and is used very largely as an ingredient of baking powders; -- called also potassium bitartrate, acid potassium tartrate, etc.
Wiktionary
n. (context countable and uncountable English) A soft, mild-tasting, white cheese that comes from cows milk.
WordNet
n. soft unripened cheese made of sweet milk and cream
Wikipedia
Cream cheese is a soft, mild-tasting fresh cheese made from milk and cream. Stabilizers such as carob bean gum and carrageenan are typically added in industrial production.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration defines cream cheese as containing at least 33% milk fat with a moisture content of not more than 55%, and a pH range of 4.4 to 4.9. In other countries, it is defined differently and may need a considerably higher fat content.
Cream cheese is not naturally matured and is meant to be consumed fresh, so it differs from other soft cheeses such as Brie and Neufchâtel. It is more comparable in taste, texture, and production methods to Boursin and mascarpone.
Usage examples of "cream cheese".
When we had everything we needed Alice took me to the Puerto Rican coffee shop, where she had a small, strong cup of coffee and I had a guava-and-cream cheese pastry.
And I'm about to spread cream cheese on that sweet bread you made.
Garraty opened one of his food containers and began to eat cream cheese on crackers.
Three main types of auntsandwiches - cream cheese and olive, watercress, and egg salad.
Then again, if I had one, all I'd be doing was running, a bed and breakfast for Buchanons, and gawd knows they'd all faint dead away at the sight of a bagel with lox and cream cheese.
Instead its mushrooms, black beans, fettucine, lettuce, a pineapple, skim milk, coffee, radishes, turnips, a rutabaga, oatmeal, butter, cottage cheese, rye bread, mayonnaise, eggs, razors, deodorant, Granny Smith apples, half-and-half, bagels, shrimp, cream cheese, Frosted MiniWheats, marinara sauce, frozen orange juice, carrots, condoms, sweet potatoes.
I mixed it in my new plastic shaker with orange-juice concentrate and shook up an ice-cold orange, then I spread nutted cream cheese on the whole-wheat bread and ate content.
All the milk was gone, every single drop of it, and the cream cheese, and the cottage cheese, and butter too.