Milk vs. Ropy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Milk and Ropy
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Milk
Milk (also known in unfermented form as sweet milk) is a nutrient-rich liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals, including breastfed human infants before they are able to digest solid food.
Ropy
Resembling a rope or ropes.
Milk
An opaque white fluid rich in fat and protein, secreted by female mammals for the nourishment of their young
A healthy mother will produce enough milk for her baby
Ropy
Forming sticky glutinous strings or threads, as some liquids.
Milk
Draw milk from (a cow or other animal), either by hand or mechanically
Two hours later he was up again to milk the cows
I had to start the milking
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Ropy
Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
Milk
Exploit or defraud by taking small amounts of money over a period of time
Executives milked the health plan's funds for their personal use
Ropy
Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
Milk
A whitish liquid containing proteins, fats, lactose, and various vitamins and minerals that is produced by the mammary glands of all mature female mammals after they have given birth and serves as nourishment for their young.
Ropy
Of poor quality; in poor health.
Milk
The milk of cows, goats, or other animals, used as food by humans.
Ropy
(of milk or another liquid) Slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.
Milk
Any of various potable liquids resembling milk, such as coconut milk or soymilk.
Ropy
Capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.
Milk
A liquid resembling milk in consistency, such as milkweed sap or milk of magnesia.
Ropy
Forming viscous or glutinous threads
Milk
To draw milk from the teat or udder of (a female mammal).
Ropy
(British informal) very poor in quality;
Ropey food
A ropey performance
Milk
To draw or extract a liquid from
Milked the stem for its last drops of sap.
Milk
To press out, drain off, or remove (a liquid)
Milk venom from a snake.
Milk
To draw out or extract something from
Milked the witness for information.
Milk
To obtain money or benefits from, in order to achieve personal gain; exploit
"The dictator and his cronies had milked their country of somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion" (Russell Watson).
Milk
To obtain the greatest possible advantage from (a situation).
Milk
To get the greatest effect from (a line or scene in a play, for example).
Milk
To yield or supply milk.
Milk
To draw milk from a female mammal.
Milk
(uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.
Milk
A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans.
Milk
An individual serving of milk.
Table three ordered three milks.
Milk
An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.
I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.
Milk
The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
Milk
Semen.
Milk
(transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
The farmer milked his cows.
Milk
To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
To milk wholesome milk from healthy cows
Milk
To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.
Milk
(transitive) To express a liquid from a creature.
The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.
Milk
To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
Milk
(of an electrical storage battery) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
Milk
To single-mindedly masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.
Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.
Milk
A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.
Milk
A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
Milk
An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
Milk
The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
Milk
To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
I have given suck, and knowHow tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.
Milk
To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
Milk
To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.
Milk
To draw or to yield milk.
Milk
To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation; - said of a storage battery.
Milk
A white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
Milk
Produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
Milk
A river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
Milk
Any of several nutritive milklike liquids
Milk
Take milk from female mammals;
Cows need to be milked every morning
Milk
Exploit as much as possible;
I am milking this for all it's worth
Milk
Add milk to;
Milk the tea
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