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# dairy

«dairy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Food made from milk, such as cheese, butter, yoghurt and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dairy, dairies; dairy, uncountable); adjective (dairy)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Food made from milk, such as cheese, butter, yoghurt and cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#m1)

2) A place where milk is kept and made into butter or cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#m2)

3) A company that sells milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#m3)

4) (NZ) A small corner shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#m4)

5) (adjective) Related to milk (dairy farm, dairy cows). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health: dairy foods give calcium for bones; the food groups. In geography: dairy farming. In everyday life: dairy aisle, dairy-free (for allergies or vegans). In New Zealand: «pop down to the dairy» for sweets.

### examples

- Cheese and yoghurt are dairy foods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#x1)
- My brother can't eat dairy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#x2)
- We visited a dairy farm and milked a cow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#x3)
- Dairy foods give us calcium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#x4)
- This ice cream is dairy-free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#x5)
- I bought a lolly at the dairy. (NZ) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#x6)
- Then the monkey got up and went to the dairy, and drank all the milk he could find. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dairy/#x7)

### note

Trap: dairy (milk food, DAIR-ee) and diary (a book for daily notes, DIE-uh-ree) are often mixed up. Eggs are not dairy, even though they are sold near it.

### In the corpora

- [From the farm the milk travels cold in a tanker to the dairy, where a quick heating called pasteurisation kills the germs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt/4/)
- [Vegetarians can get all their nutrients from beans, eggs, dairy, nuts, grains and vegetables.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/13/)
- [Butter and cheese are made from milk; a farm that keeps cows for their milk is called a dairy farm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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