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# cream

«cream» in Mova's school dictionary: **the thick, fatty part of milk** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cream, creams); adjective (cream-coloured); verb (cream, creams, creamed, creaming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cream is the thick, fatty part of milk. It is used to make butter, cakes and ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#m1)

2) A cream is a soft thick stuff you rub on your skin, like sun cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#m2)

3) Cream is a pale yellow-white colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#m3)

4) To cream butter and sugar is to mix them until soft. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#m4)

5) The cream of something is the best part of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

mostly in «ice cream»: cones, scoops or tubs that are counted or bought; also an amount of cream in a recipe; in everyday life and safety: put on sun cream before going out in the sun; in cooking: whipped cream on desserts, strawberries and cream; phrases: «ice cream», «sun cream», «whipped cream», «the cream of the crop» (the very best)

### examples

- An ice cream cone costs 2 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#x1)
- Each cone has 3 scoops of ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#x2)
- The recipe needs 200 millilitres of cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#x3)
- They sold 45 ice creams on Monday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#x4)
- Put on sun cream before you go to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#x5)
- We had strawberries and cream at the picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#x6)
- Cream the butter and sugar together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#x7)
- She painted her room cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#x8)
- These pupils are the cream of the school's runners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#x9)
- "This good, rich milk," she mused, "will give me plenty of cream to churn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/#x10)

### note

Carries no clue. In «ice cream» it is part of the thing counted or the item bought; look for the price or number beside it. Cream (stuff) is uncountable; «ice creams» can be counted as servings. Measured in millilitres or cups.

### In the corpora

- [Babies wear nappies, which are changed six to ten times a day, and nappy cream stops sore skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/16/)
- [Pale pigs can get sunburnt like fair-skinned people, so farmers sometimes give them shade or sun cream.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/5/)
- [Ice and salt together get much colder than ice alone, cold enough to freeze ice cream in a bag.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing/17/)
- [And ice cream feels smooth because it is stirred while freezing, keeping its ice crystals tiny.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt/7/)
- [Whisking cream traps air bubbles, held by fat droplets; whisking too long turns it lumpy and then into butter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cream» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cream/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.