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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The part of milk that coagulates when the milk sours or is treated with enzymes. Curd is used to make cheese.
- noun A lump of curd.
- noun A coagulated liquid that resembles milk curd.
- intransitive & transitive verb To form or cause to form into curd; curdle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to coagulate; turn to curd; curdle; congeal; clot.
- To become curdled or coagulated; become curd.
- noun See
Kurd . - noun The coagulated or thickened part of milk, which is formed into cheese, or eaten as food: often used in the plural.
- noun The coagulated part of any liquid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey.
- transitive verb To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
- noun The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese.
- noun The coagulated part of any liquid.
- noun The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The part of
milk thatcoagulates when itsours or is treated withenzymes ; used to makecottage cheese . - verb To form curd; to
curdle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd
- noun coagulated milk; used to make cheese
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The lime curd is an easy, lower-fat variation on a traditional lemon curd that is made with lots of fresh lime juice.
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That said, I understand if you mix half buttermilk with half regular, whole milk, the curd is larger (I haven't tried that yet.)
queso blanco | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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Stir in the food coloring while the curd is cooking.
Baking Bites » Print » Slime-Filled Cupcakes from the Black Lagoon 2008
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The curd is made the same way as a lemon curd or a lime curd, using the juice of the passion fruit and combining it with sugar and eggs.
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Stir in the food coloring while the curd is cooking.
Slime-Filled Cupcakes from the Black Lagoon | Baking Bites 2008
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The curd is made the same way as a lemon curd or a lime curd, using the juice of the passion fruit and combining it with sugar and eggs.
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That lemon curd is just about the bet lemon curd I've ever had and I loved the pie.
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But, why go so far out of the way to pretend that your bean curd is anything other than bean curd.
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Gini, you must be wondering where the curd is right?
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While Charu bathed Pranav, my nephew, I went to make a quick biryani that I served with plain curd and papad.
Cauliflower Biryani Anjali 2007
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synonyms (82)
Words with the same meaning
- Devonshire cream
- albumen
- batter
- blood clot
- bonnyclabber
- butter
- buttermilk
- casein
- certified milk
- cheese
- clabber
- clot
- clotted cream
- coagulate
- coagulum
- condensed milk
- cornstarch
- crassamentum
- cream
- curdle
- dairy products
- dough
- egg white
- embolus
- gaum
- gel
- gelatin
- ghee
- glair
- glop
- glue
- gluten
- goo
- gook
- goop
- gruel
- grume
- gumbo
- gunk
- half-and-half
- heavy cream
- jam
- jell
- jelly
- legumin
- light cream
- loblolly
- lopper
- loppered milk
- margarine
- milk
- molasses
- mucilage
- mucus
- nonfat dry milk
- oleo
- oleomargarine
- pap
- paracasein
- paste
- porridge
- pudding
- pulp
- puree
- putty
- raw milk
- rob
- semifluid
- semiliquid
- size
- skim milk
- soup
- sour cream
- starch
- sticky mess
- syrup
- thrombus
- treacle
- turn
- whey
- whipping cream
- yogurt
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Words with the same terminal sound
- Bird
- Byrd
- Ferd
- Kurd
- Word
- absurd
- bird
- blurred
- burd
- chauffeured
- concurred
- conferred
- deferred
- demurred
- deterred
- ferd
- gird
- heard
- herd
- hurd
- incurred
- inferred
- interred
- misheard
- nerd
- occurred
- overheard
- prefered
- preferred
- recurred
- referred
- reword
- slurred
- spurred
- stirred
- third
- transferred
- uncured
- undeterred
- unheard
- word
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