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# whey

«whey» in Mova's school dictionary: **the watery liquid left over when milk is made into cheese…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (whey — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Whey is the watery liquid left over when milk is made into cheese or yoghurt; the solid lumps are called curds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whey/#m1)

2) Whey protein is a powder made from whey that some athletes add to drinks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whey/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In nursery rhymes: «Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey»; in science, separating solids from liquids; in food labels and allergies, whey comes from milk.

### examples

- Little Miss Muffet ate her curds and whey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whey/#x1)
- When milk turns into cheese, the whey drains away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whey/#x2)
- The farmer fed the whey to the pigs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whey/#x3)
- This protein shake has whey in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whey/#x4)
- Whey comes from milk, so check if you have a milk allergy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whey/#x5)
- She then put down a large pot of new milk, which she made into curds and whey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whey/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Homophone trap: «whey» sounds like «way» and «weigh». Sometimes spelt «whey» only — not «whay».

### 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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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