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Distribution Cost (money) and cheese(1) (iou)


Distribution Cost (money)


Definition: Cost of warehousing, packing, and selling.







cheese(1) (iou)



cheese noun1.

The curds of milk (coagulated by rennet) separated from the whey and pressed into a solid mass, eaten as Food; a distinct kind of this. OE.
blue cheese, Cheddar cheese, cottage cheese, cream cheese, Dutch cheese, Lancashire cheese, Limburger cheese, Parmesan cheese, processed cheese, Swiss cheese, etc. as different as chalk and cheese, as different as chalk from cheese: see CHALK noun. green cheese: see GREEN adjective. hard cheese: see HARD adjective. mousetrap cheese: see MOUSETRAP 2.
b. A mass or cake of this within a rind. LME.
The fruit of the common mallow, Malva silvestris, which has a round flattened shape like a cheese. E16.
A conserve of fruit etc. having the consistency or form of (cream) cheese. M16.
damson cheese, lemon cheese, etc.
b. A mass of crushed apples pressed together in the form of a cheese. E18.
Any object shaped like a cheese (usu. taken as being cylindrical or an oblate spheroid). M19.
The action of turning round rapidly and sinking down so that skirts and petticoats take the form of a cheese; a deep curtsy. (Cf. French faire des fromages.) arch. M19.
The word 'cheese' notionally or actually pronounced to form the lips into a smile, when one is being photographed. M20.
Comb.: cheeseboard a board from which cheese is served; a selection of cheeses served with a meal; cheeseburger a hamburger with cheese in or on it; cheesecake (a) a tart(let) with a filling of sweetened curds on a pastry or biscuit-crumb base; (b) slang (orig. US) the display of shapely female form in advertisements, photographs, etc.; cheesecloth = butter muslin s.v. BUTTER noun1; cheese-cutter (a) a knife with a curved blade used for cutting cheese; (b) a device for cutting cheese by pulling a wire through it; cheese fly a small black fly, Piophila casei, whose larvae feed on cheese; cheese-head a squat cylindrical head of a screw etc.; cheese-knife (a) = cheese-cutter (a) above; (b) a spatula used to break down curd in cheese-making; cheese mite a mite of the genus Tyroglyphus, feeding on old cheese; cheesemonger a dealer in cheese, butter, etc.; cheese-pare verb intrans. be stingy, make miserly economies; cheese-paring adjective & noun (a) adjective stingy; (b) noun stinginess; cheese-rennet, cheese-running lady's bedstraw, Galium verum, formerly used to curdle milk; cheese skipper the larva of the cheese fly; cheesesteak US a sandwich consisting of thinly sliced sauteed beef, melted cheese, and sauteed onions, served in a long bread roll; cheese straw a thin cheese-flavoured strip of pastry; cheesewood (the hard yellow wood of) an Australian tree of the genus Pittosporum.