milk

/mɪlk/

US pronunciation

American sound/mɪlk/

milk

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> milk

Myanmar meaning

(n) နို့။ နို့ရည်။ အုန်းရည်နှင့်သစ်ပင်၊အပင်တို့မှရသည့်နို့ကဲ့သို့သောအရည်။ (v) နို့ညှစ်သည်။ ငွေညှစ်သည်။ သတင်းအစ်သည်။ အမြတ်ထုတ်သည်။

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milk /mÇlk / n [U]

၁။ နို့။ နို့ရည်။ a pint of milk ❍ a bottle/ carton of milk ❍ fresh goat's milk ❍ dried/ powdered milk ❍ Do you take milk? ❍ milk products (eg butter, cheese, YOGHURT) ❍ a milk- white horse. See also CONDENSED MILK , EVAPORATED MILK, SKIMMED MILK
၂။ အုန်းရည်နှင့် သစ်ပင်၊ အပင်တို့မှရသည့် နို့ကဲ့သို့ သောအရည်။ soya milk.
v
၁။ နို့ညှစ်သည်။ Cows must be milked twice a day.
၂။ (က) ~ sb/ sth (of sth); ~ sth(out of/ from sb/ sth) ငွေညှစ်သည်။ သတင်းအစ်သည်။ milk the benefits system ❍ His illegal deals were steadily milking the profits from the business. (ခ) အမြတ်ထုတ်သည်။ He milked the occasion for all it was worth, giving TV interviews and selling his story to the tabloids.
❏ milk and honey [IDM ] အစာရေစာ အလျှံပယ် ကြွယ်ဝခြင်း။ a land of/ flowing with milk and honey ❍ a time of milk and honey.
❏ milking n [U] နို့ညှစ်ခြင်း။ do the evening milking ❍ milking machines.
❏ milk chocolate n [U] နို့ချောကလက်။ Do you prefer milk chocolate or plain (chocolate)? Compare PLAIN CHOCOLATE
❏ milk float n (Brit ) နို့ပို့ကား။
❏ the milk of human kindness [IDM ] အကြင်နာ တရား။ (often ironic ) You're so full of the milk of human kindness!
❏ milk round n (esp Brit ) နို့ပို့သမား ခရီးစဉ်။ do a milk round.
❏ milk shake (also shake ) n နို့နှင့် ရေခဲမုန့်၊ သစ်သီး၊ ချောကလက် စသည်ကို မွှေထားသော နို့အေး။ a banana milk shake.
❏ milk tooth n (also esp US baby tooth ) (pl teeth ) ငယ်သွား။

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A carton of milk

Synonyms

exploit, make the most of, get the most out of, take advantage of, cash in on, profit from, extract, benefit, bleed, buttermilk, chalk, condensed, cream, drain, draw off, elicit, empty, evaporated, evince, evoke, exhaust, express, extort, fleece, formula, goat, half-and-half, homogenized, impose on, laiche, let out, low fat, moo juice, pasteurized, powdered, press, profit, pump, raw, siphon, skim, suck, take advantage, take out, tap, tap; exploit, two-percent, use, whole, wring

Antonyms

hoard, leave alone, save

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