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CREAM

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cream I. substantiv

1. caimac, frişcă, cremă (a laptelui); smântână;

sour cream smântână;

beat / whipped cream frişcă;

to skim the cream off a lua caimacul; (fig.) a lua ce-i mai bun;

clotted cream iaurt.

2. (fig.) floare, cremă, caimac, perlă, ceea ce este mai bun; elită;

the cream of the army trupele de elită;

the cream of the story sarea / hazul anecdotei / povestirii;

the cream of a joke poanta unei glume / unui banc;

the cream of society crema societăţii.

3. lustru, lac; ceară de lustruit.

4. cremă;

almond cream cremă de migdale.

5. cremă, lichior.

6. cremă; alifie (cosmetică);

cold cream cold cream (alifie pentru piele).

7. spumă (a unui lichid.).

cream II. adjectiv

crem, de culoare crem (şi cream-coloured).

cream III. verb A. tranzitiv

1. (şi to cream off) a smântâni (laptele).

2. (şi to cream off) (fig.) a lua crema / lamura / partea cea mai aleasă (cu gen.).

3. a pune frişcă în (cafea etc.).

4. a freca (unt, unt cu zahăr etc.).

5. a unge cu (cremă, alifie).

cream III. verb B. intranzitiv

a face spumă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Treatment with estrogen cream usually helps make these abnormal cells go away.

(Estrogen cream, NCI Dictionary)

He knew the thoughts behind them—of ice-cream and of something else.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Myristyl nicotinate cream is also being studied as a way to help lessen the side effects of retinoic acid (a form of vitamin A) when it is used to treat skin that has been damaged by the sun.

(Myristyl nicotinate cream, NCI Dictionary)

Her hot cheeks cooled a trifle, and she drew a long breath as the pretty glass plates went round, and everyone looked graciously at the little rosy islands floating in a sea of cream.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the lower part of the lining.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now for the cream.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

A cream that contains the hormone estrogen.

(Estrogen cream, NCI Dictionary)

Life meant more to him than it meant to these two girls whose thoughts did not go beyond ice-cream and a gentleman friend.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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