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# milky

«milky» in Mova's school dictionary: **Containing a lot of milk, or made with milk: «milky tea»…** — 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

adjective (milky, milkier, milkiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Containing a lot of milk, or made with milk: «milky tea», «milky coffee». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#m1)

2) White and cloudy like milk: «milky water». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#m2)

3) «The Milky Way» is our galaxy, which looks like a pale band of light across the night sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons «milky» describes cloudy liquids in experiments: limewater turns milky when carbon dioxide is bubbled through it. In space lessons: the Sun and Earth are in the Milky Way galaxy. In everyday life: «milky tea», «milky drink before bed», «milky skin».

### examples

- Granny likes her tea very milky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x1)
- The limewater turned milky in the experiment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x2)
- We saw the Milky Way on a dark night in the countryside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x3)
- The river looked milky after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x4)
- Our Sun is one star in the Milky Way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x5)
- I have a milky drink before bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x6)
- The opal stone has a milky colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x7)

### note

Comparative: milkier, milkiest (y → i). «The Milky Way» is a name, so it has capitals. In science, a liquid going «milky» or «cloudy» is a clue that a new substance has formed.

### In the corpora

- [A dung beetle rolls dung balls to feed its young, steering by the Milky Way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/4/)
- [People everywhere have made pictures of the sky: Aboriginal Australians see an Emu in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/4/)
- [Aboriginal Australians see the Emu in the Sky in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/16/)
- [The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, with a bar of stars across its centre and spiral arms curling out from it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/23-the-milky-way/6/)
- [The disc of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across but only about 1,000 light years thick in most places.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/23-the-milky-way/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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