| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In a milky manner.[Websters]
2. In a lactic or galactic manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a turbid or feculent manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In an opaque or thick manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a whitish or white manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a soft, bland, sweet, mild or quiet manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective milky.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (milky) | 1. Resembling milk in color not clear; "milky glass".[Wordnet]. 2. Consisting of, or containing, milk.[Websters]. 3. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice.".[Websters]. 4. Yielding milk.[Websters]. 5. Mild; tame; spiritless.[Websters]. 6. Being lactic.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being opaque, murky, dim, misty or obscure.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being turbid, cloudy, bleary, foggy or feculent.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being muddy.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adjective base of the adverb milkily.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "MILKILY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1899. (references) |
Specialty Definition: milky
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] Made of milk.. | 2: [Adjective] Resembling milk; as milky sap or juice.. | 3: [Adjective] Yielding milk; as milky mothers.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wikipedic | Milky is a Dance production group based out of Italy. The act consists of producers Giordiano Trivellato and Giuliano Sacchetto, with Egyptian/German singer Sabrina Elahl serving as their lead singer on most of their tracks. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (colloquial) Cowardly. Possibly coined by Graham Greene in the novel Brighton Rock (1938). (references) | 2: [Noun] (colour science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark grey/gray rather than black. (references) | 3: [Noun] Resembling milk in color/colour or consistency. (references) |
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Common Expressions: milky
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night (1999) is an album by the band Stereolab. (references) | ||
| Milky Cotton | Milky Cottom was the first album by Megumi Odaka (1988). (references) | ||
| Milky Dragon | The Milky Dragon is another sexual urban legend that has come to be told. Like others it is mainly used for shock value rather than being an act which has actually been performed. (references) | ||
| Milky seas effect | Milky seas is a condition on the open ocean where large areas of seawater are filled with bioluminescent bacteria, causing the ocean to glow an eerie blue at night. (references) | ||
| Milky Stork | The Milky Stork, Mycteria cinerea, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. (references) | ||
| Milky Way | 1: (Astron.) See Galaxy , 1. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: The galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Milky Way (confectionery) | The Milky Way bar was created in 1923 by Frank Mars, the name being an obvious pun, like the Mars Bar and Galaxy chocolate. The name refers to two different chocolate bars, one sold in the United States and another sold in all other markets. (references) | ||
| Milky Way (disambiguation) | The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Galaxia Kuklos (meaning milky way)) traditionally refers to the a hazy band of white light across the celestial sphere, formed by stars within the disc of its namesake galaxy (the plane of the Milky Way). The great sky river is densest around the area of the constellation of Sagittarius, near M24. (references) | ||
| Milky Way (mythology) | There are numerous legends in many traditions around the world regarding the creation of the Milky Way. In particular, there are two similar ancient Greek stories, that explain the etymology of the name Galaxias (Γαλαξίας) and its association with milk (γάλα). One legend describes the Milky Way as a smear of milk, created when the baby Herakles suckled from the goddess Hera. When Hera realized that the suckling infant was not her own but the illegitimate son of Zeus and another woman, she pushed it away and the spurting milk became the Milky Way. (references) | ||
| Milky Way Galaxy | The galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Milky Way System | The galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| The Milky Way (1940 short film) | The Milky Way is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres in 1940 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. The short, produced and directed by Rudolph Ising with musical supervision by Scott Bradley, explores the adventures of the "three little kittens who lost their mittens", as they explore a dreamland where space is made up entirely of dairy products (for example, the Milky Way is made of milk and the moon is made of cheese). The short won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. Other shorts nominated in 1940 included A Wild Hare, introducing the design and personality of Bugs Bunny, and Puss Gets the Boot, the prototype for Tom and Jerry. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: milky
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Milky quartz | Chemistry | Milk-white, nearly opaque variety of crystalline quartz often having a greasy lustre. The milkiness is usually due to the presence of innumerable very small cavities containing fluids. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Milky quartz | Mining | A milk-white, nearly opaque variety of quartz, commonly with a greasy luster. The milkiness is due to the presence of minute, fluid-filledinclusions. Syn:greasy quartz. (references) | |
| Milky way | Aerospace | 1: The galaxy which encompasses our Sun and solar system. In the `Great Debate' it usually referred to the band of light that runs across the sky and contains most of the visible stars. Today this term is synonymous with the whole of our Galaxy. (references) | |
| 2: The galaxy to which the sun belongs. As seen at night from the earth, the Milky Way is a faintly luminous belt of faint stars. (references) | |||
| 3: A gravitationally bound collection of roughly a hundred billion stars. Our Sun is one of these stars and is located roughly 27 thousand light years (or 8.2 kiloparsecs) from the center of the Milky Way, or two-thirds of the way out. The bulk of these stars are contained in a rim disk. (references) | |||
| Milky way | Literature | 1: Powdered with stars." 2: Milton: Paradise Lost, vii. 577, etc. 3: And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear, 4: "A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold 5: Seen in the galaxy- that Milky Way, 6: (The). A great circle of stars entirely surrounding the heavens. They are so crowded together that they appear to the naked eye like a "way" or stream of faint "milky" light. The Galaxy or Via Lactea. 7: Thick, nightly, as a circling zone, thou seest. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Milky way | Physics | A spiral shaped galaxy in which the Earth is located. The sun and the earth lie in one of the spiral arms near the edge of the galaxy. (references) | |
| Milky Way | Space | The galaxy which includes the sun and Earth. (references) | |
| Milky way galaxy | Aerospace | 1: The spiral galaxy of which our sun is a part. (references) | |
| 2: The spiral galaxy containing our sun. Visible on the northern hemisphere in summer in the night sky as the Milky Way, a faint band stretching over the sky. (references) | |||
| Milky weather | Geography | 1: Uniformly white appearance of the landscape when the ground is snowcovered and the sky is uniformly covered with clouds. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| 2: An atmospheric optical phenomenon of the polar regions in which the observer appears to be engulfed in a uniformly white glow. Neither shadows, horizon, nor clouds are discernible. Source: European Union. (references) | |||
| Pole of the Milky Way | Aerospace | The pole in the galactic system of coordinates. (references) | |
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