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How to pronounce “cheese”

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Pronunciation guide for cheese

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of cheese with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: The New American Cheeseof six books on cheese.
Definition summary: (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

Example 1 of 8

The New American Cheese

of six books on cheese.

[Noun]
(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
(countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
(countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
(uncountable, UK) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
(uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
(uncountable, slang) Money.
(countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
(uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
(uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
(vulgar, slang) Smegma.
(technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
[Verb]
To prepare curds for making cheese.
(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
(slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.
[Interjection]
(photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.