Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A commercial establishment for processing or selling milk and milk products.
- noun A place where milk and cream are stored and processed.
- noun A dairy farm.
- noun The dairy business; dairying.
- noun Food containing milk or milk derivatives.
- adjective Of, for, or relating to milk or milk products.
- adjective Of or relating to dairying.
- adjective Judaism Of or relating to food products containing milk or milk derivatives and not containing meat or meat derivatives, as dictated by dietary law.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of farming which is concerned with the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.
- noun A house or room where milk and cream are kept and made into butter and cheese.
- noun A shop where milk, butter, etc., are sold.
- noun A dairy-farm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
- noun That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.
- noun rare A dairy farm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place, often on a
farm , wheremilk is processed and turned into products such asbutter andcheese . - noun A shop selling dairy products.
- noun Products produced from
milk . - noun New Zealand A corner-store,
superette or 'mini-mart' of some description. - adjective referring to products produced from
milk . - adjective referring to the milk production and
processing industries - adjective UK on food labelling, containing fats only from dairy sources (e.g. dairy
ice cream )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a farm where dairy products are produced
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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It might also not be a bad idea to drop the word "dairy."
Forbes.com: News Russell Flannery 2011
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This tianguis booth specializes in dairy products with clotted cream in covered plastic glasses, many kinds of cheese and a bowl of golden milk custard.
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You know, I'm betting these would be a great entertain-the-kids activity to do over the summer holidays - depending on how young they are, the full fat dairy is actually beneficial - and they can make fun shapes out of the dough that are all their own!
Tangy, Tasty Buns for BBD #20 Sarah 2009
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He talks about the antibiotics in dairy, the steroids in meat, the mercury in fish.
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You know, I'm betting these would be a great entertain-the-kids activity to do over the summer holidays - depending on how young they are, the full fat dairy is actually beneficial - and they can make fun shapes out of the dough that are all their own!
Archive 2009-05-01 Sarah 2009
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It is interesting to note that worldwide, India ranks first in dairy production followed by the United States.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Farm Stands of the Hudson River Valley, NY Steve Poses 2010
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When were growth hormones an issue in dairy foods and meats?
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Mother’s Weight Determines Daughter’s Menarche? 2009
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Then Sopo, where the main dairy plant in this region exists (Antioquia has more dairy than Cundinamarca has, but I learned nothing of the paisa production).
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The ability to digest the milk sugar lactose first evolved in dairy farming communities in central Europe, not in more northern groups as was previously thought, finds a new study led by UCL (University College London) scientists published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology.
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The main dairy production in our part of the country is out of Alpina, in Sopo.
bilby commented on the word dairy
NZ slang - corner store.
February 8, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word dairy
"Dairy products were also regarded as peasant food. The elite idea of the rustic condition is shown by the chorus of a song written at the time of a great Flemish peasant insurrection (between 1323 and 1328), according to which peasants thrive on curdled milk, bread, and cheese. Anything better would render them incapable of work. In fact, however, as far back as the thirteenth century a few cheeses were acknowledged as stylish. Brie, Comte, and Roquefort had enough prestige that they were known outside their regions of origin, but only in fifteenth-century Italy do we find a discussion of cheese addressed to an audience of gourmets. In Pantaleone da Confienza's 'summa' on dairy products, cheese is for the first time a delicacy worthy of comment and discrimination."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 41.
November 27, 2017