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# milky

adjective (milky, milkier, milkiest)

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

## Everyday

1. Containing a lot of milk, or made with milk: «milky tea», «milky coffee». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#m1)
2. White and cloudy like milk: «milky water». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#m2)
3. «The Milky Way» is our galaxy, which looks like a pale band of light across the night sky. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science lessons «milky» describes cloudy liquids in experiments: limewater turns milky when carbon dioxide is bubbled through it. In space lessons: the Sun and Earth are in the Milky Way galaxy. In everyday life: «milky tea», «milky drink before bed», «milky skin».

### Examples

- Granny likes her tea very milky. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x1)
- The limewater turned milky in the experiment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x2)
- We saw the Milky Way on a dark night in the countryside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x3)
- The river looked milky after the rain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x4)
- Our Sun is one star in the Milky Way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x5)
- I have a milky drink before bed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x6)
- The opal stone has a milky colour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/milky/#x7)

### Note

Comparative: milkier, milkiest (y → i). «The Milky Way» is a name, so it has capitals. In science, a liquid going «milky» or «cloudy» is a clue that a new substance has formed.

## On Mova

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