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.
  "In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels."
• (uncountable, UK) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
  "1807, Nutt, F. (1807). The Complete Confectioner: Or, The Whole Art of Confectionary Made Easy: Containing, Among a Variety of Useful Matter, the Art of Making the Various Kinds of Biscuits, Drops ... as Also the Most Approved Method of Making Cheeses, Puddings, Cakes &c. in 250 Cheap and Fashionable Receipts. The Result of Many Years Experience with the Celebrated Negri and Witten. United Kingdom: reprinted, for Richard Scott and sold at his bookstore, no. 243 Pearl-street. p.82-3, No.244. Damson Cheese: “Pick the damsons free from stalks···You may make plum or bullace cheese in the same way···”"

verb

• (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
• (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.
  "Yeah, a couple homegirls cheese they little faces off / They happy cause they finally got they braces off"

intj

• (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
  "Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!"

noun

• (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
• (slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
  "These cheroots are the real cheese."