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creaming en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɹiːmɪŋ/
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Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A cookery technique in which fat and sugar are mixed together with the incorporation of air to form a cream.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act by which something is creamed.
    • The number of creamings necessary to reduce the impurities to a negligible amount was estimated from the relative volumes of the upper and lower layers, by assuming that the soluble impurities were uniformly distributed between the layers […] 1933, Bureau of Standards Journal of Research, volume 10, page 482:

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Deriveds

creaming soda

creaming en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɹiːmɪŋ/
  • (US) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of cream
    form of cream