柯林斯英英词典

milk [mɪlk]

1. 1. n a whitish nutritious fluid produced and secreted by the mammary glands of mature female mammals and used for feeding their young until weaned

2. 2. n the milk of cows, goats, or other animals used by man as a food or in the production of butter, cheese, etc

3. 3. n any similar fluid in plants, such as the juice of a coconut

4. 4. n any of various milklike pharmaceutical preparations, such as milk of magnesia

5. 5. vb to draw milk from the udder of (a cow, goat, or other animal)

6. 6. vi. [intr] (of cows, goats, or other animals) to yield milk

7. 7. vt. [tr] to draw off or tap in small quantities

   to milk the petty cash

8. 8. vt. [tr] to extract as much money, help, etc, as possible from

   to milk a situation of its news value

9. 9. vt. [tr] to extract venom, sap, etc, from

10. 10. vt. [Etymology] Old English milc; compare Old Saxon miluk, Old High German miluh, Old Norse mjolk