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# curd

noun (curd, curds — often plural)

«curd» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Curds are the thick white lumps that form when milk goes sour or is made to separate; they are used to make cheese. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#m1)
2. Curd is a thick, creamy spread made with fruit juice, sugar, eggs and butter, as in lemon curd. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#m2)
3. Curd can mean soft cheese, like cottage cheese, or bean curd (tofu). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science and cooking lessons, adding something sour such as lemon juice or rennet to milk makes it separate into curds (solid) and whey (liquid) — an example of a change that cannot be undone. In nursery rhymes, Little Miss Muffet ate «her curds and whey». In Canada, cheese curds go on poutine.

### Examples

- Little Miss Muffet ate her curds and whey. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x1)
- Add lemon juice and the milk turns into curds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x2)
- Cheesemakers press the curds into blocks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x3)
- I love lemon curd on toast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x4)
- Poutine is chips with gravy and cheese curds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x5)
- Squeaky cheese curds are a snack in Canada. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x6)
- Bean curd is another name for tofu. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x7)
- "Give me some curds, too, Dovey!" [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/#x8)

### Note

For the milk lumps it is often plural: curds. «Lemon curd» is uncountable. Do not confuse with «curdle» (the verb: milk curdles) or «Kurd» (a person of the Kurdish people), which sounds the same.

## In Jewish tradition

Curd was soft soured milk or cheese, eaten as food and used here as hospitality for guests.

**Interpretation.** Abraham serving curd and milk with meat to his guests is often noted. Later law forbids mixing meat and milk, so the rabbis explain this in different ways.

### Examples

- And he took curd, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. (Torah GEN.18.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/curd/#x1)
- Curd of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, with the kidney-fat of wheat; and of the blood of the grape thou drankest foaming wine. (Torah DEU.32.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/curd/#x2)
- He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd. (Writings JOB.20.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/curd/#x3)
- Water he asked, milk she gave him; in a lordly bowl she brought him curd. (Prophets JDG.5.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/curd/#x4)
- Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good. (Prophets ISA.7.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/curd/#x5)

### Note

For the milk lumps it is often plural: curds. «Lemon curd» is uncountable. Do not confuse with «curdle» (the verb: milk curdles) or «Kurd» (a person of the Kurdish people), which sounds the same.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «curd» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curd/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«curd» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/curd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «curd» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/curd/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«curd» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/curd.html) on Mova free.