ALL meanings of butter
but·ter
B b - variable noun butter Butter is a soft yellow substance made from cream. You spread it on bread or use it in cooking. 3
- verb butter If you butter something such as bread or toast, you spread butter on it. 3
- noun butter an edible fatty whitish-yellow solid made from cream by churning, for cooking and table use 3
- noun butter (as modifier) 3
- noun butter any substance with a butter-like consistency, such as peanut butter or vegetable butter 3
- verb butter to put butter on or in 3
- verb butter to flatter 3
- noun butter the solid, yellowish, edible fat that results from churning cream or whole milk, used as a spread, in cooking, etc. 3
- noun butter any of various substances somewhat like butter 3
- noun butter any of certain other spreads for bread 3
- noun butter any of certain vegetables oils having a solid consistency at ordinary temperatures 3
- noun butter any of certain metallic chlorides 3
- noun butter flatter 3
- verb transitive butter to spread with butter 3
- verb transitive butter to flatter so as to ingratiate oneself 3
- noun butter any of various other soft spreads for bread: apple butter; peanut butter. 1
- noun butter any of various substances of butterlike consistency, as various metallic chlorides, and certain vegetable oils solid at ordinary temperatures. 1
- verb with object butter to put butter on or in; spread or grease with butter. 1
- verb with object butter to apply a liquefied bonding material to (a piece or area), as mortar to a course of bricks. 1
- verb with object butter Metalworking. to cover (edges to be welded together) with a preliminary surface of the weld metal. 1
- noun butter spreadable food 1
- transitive verb butter to apply butter 1
- noun butter the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned. 1
- noun butter this substance, processed for cooking and table use. 1
- noun butter (Uncountable Noun) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). 0
- noun butter (Countable Noun) OBS (chemistry) Any specific soft substance. 0
- noun butter (Uncountable Noun) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it). 0
- noun butter Someone who butts, or who butts in. 0
- verb butter (Transitive Verb) To spread butter on. 0
- verb butter to move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. 0
- verb butter (Slang) (obsolete) VT To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game. 0