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# curd

«curd» in Mova's school dictionary: **the thick white lumps that form when milk goes sour or is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (curd, curds — often plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Curds are the thick white lumps that form when milk goes sour or is made to separate; they are used to make cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#m1)

2) Curd is a thick, creamy spread made with fruit juice, sugar, eggs and butter, as in lemon curd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#m2)

3) Curd can mean soft cheese, like cottage cheese, or bean curd (tofu). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and cooking lessons, adding something sour such as lemon juice or rennet to milk makes it separate into curds (solid) and whey (liquid) — an example of a change that cannot be undone. In nursery rhymes, Little Miss Muffet ate «her curds and whey». In Canada, cheese curds go on poutine.

### examples

- Little Miss Muffet ate her curds and whey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x1)
- Add lemon juice and the milk turns into curds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x2)
- Cheesemakers press the curds into blocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x3)
- I love lemon curd on toast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x4)
- Poutine is chips with gravy and cheese curds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x5)
- Squeaky cheese curds are a snack in Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x6)
- Bean curd is another name for tofu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x7)
- "Give me some curds, too, Dovey!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x8)

### note

For the milk lumps it is often plural: curds. «Lemon curd» is uncountable. Do not confuse with «curdle» (the verb: milk curdles) or «Kurd» (a person of the Kurdish people), which sounds the same.

### In the corpora

- [Cheese-makers add bacteria and rennet to milk, which separates into solid curds and watery whey; the curds become cheese.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt/9/)
- [Water he asked, milk she gave him; in a lordly bowl she brought him curd.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.149/)
- [Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.151/)
- [He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.514/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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