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dairy

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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dai·ry /ˈdeəri $ ˈderi/ ●●○ noun (plural dairies) [countable]  1. TAa place on a farm where milk is kept and butter and cheese are made 牛奶场;乳品场2. TABBCa company which sells milk and sometimes makes other things from milk, such as cheese 牛奶公司;乳品公司3. dairy products/produce milk, butter, cheese etc 乳品,乳制品
Examples from the Corpus
dairyCritics routinely dubbed him a dairy farmer from Kansas.Carrie followed him, through a door at the back of the kitchen, down a stone passage into a dairy.The most extensive tracts are taken up by five dairy farms.But it's cattle you should think of in this country, perfect dairy pasture, rich it is.At the time, Dorset was beginning the transition from picturesque dairy country to affluent summer artist colony.Congress got in the act in the following years, lending the academy $ 255,000 to expand the dairy.As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess, his father rode with him a little way.
Origin dairy (1200-1300) dey female servant (in a dairy) ((10-19 centuries)), from Old English dæge maker of bread
dai·ry nounChineseSyllable
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dairy
dairy /ˈdeəri $ ˈderi/ noun (plural dairies) [countable]
 Date: 1200-1300
 Origin: dey 'female servant (in a dairy)' (10-19 centuries), from Old English dæge 'maker of bread'
1. a place on a farm where milk is kept and butter and cheese are made
2. a company which sells milk and sometimes makes other things from milk, such as cheese
3. dairy products/produce milk, butter, cheese etc


dairyBrE /ˈdeəri/ 🔊NAmE /ˈderi/ 🔊 noun (
plural
dairies
)
[countable] a place on a farm where milk is kept and where butter and cheese are made 牛奶场;乳品场

arable, barn, crop, cultivate, dairy, fallow, farm, graze, livestock, tractor

[countable] a company that sells milk, eggs, cheese and other milk products 乳品公司;乳品店 [countable] (NZE) a small local shop (当地的)小商店,小铺I went to buy a paper at the corner dairy. 我到街角的小店去买了份报纸。🔊🔊 [uncountable] milk, eggs, cheese and other milk products 乳制品The doctor told me to eat less red meat and dairy. 医生告诫我要少吃红肉和乳制品。🔊🔊
dairyBrE /ˈdeəri/ 🔊NAmE /ˈderi/ 🔊 adjective [only before noun] made from milk 牛奶的;奶制的;乳品的dairy products/produce 乳制品connected with the production of milk rather than meat 乳品业的;生产乳品的the dairy industry乳品业dairy cattle/farmers 乳牛;乳牛场工人a dairy cow/farm 乳牛;乳牛场