Definition of "butter"

butter¹

/ˈbʌtəɹ/

noun
usually uncountable, plural butters
1. A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
2. Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
3. Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
  Quotations
  Butters such as cocoa, illippe, kokum, mango, murumuru, sal (shorea) and shea occur naturally and are obtained directly from the plant.
  2016 September 7, Elaine Stavert, Beauty Oils & Butter, GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD
  Butters are triglycerides […] . Cocoa butter (Theobroma cacao) is used as an emollient in topical cosmetic formulations, […] South American and the Brazilian rainforest offer various plants with common butters used in the industry that include […] cupuaçu butter […] and murumuru butter from the murumuru palm tree (Astrocaryum murumuru). India is another source of many butters used in cosmetic products, including kokum butter extracted from the seeds of the Garcinia indica tree, mango butter from the Mangifera indica tree and shea butter […]
  2019 April 5, Heather A.E. Benson, Michael S. Roberts, Vania Rodrigues Leite-Silva, Kenneth Walters, Cosmetic Formulation: Principles and Practice, CRC Press, page 227
4. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.
5. (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.
verb
third-person singular simple present butters, present participle buttering, simple past and past participle buttered
1. (transitive) To spread butter on.
2. (skiing, snowboarding) To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with then end of a butterknife.
  1. To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
3. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

butter²

/ˈbʌtəɹ/

noun
plural butters
1. Someone who butts, or who butts in.
  Quotations
  […] these animals lacked self-correcting mechanisms of the kind seen in modern head-butters such as goats and big-horn sheep that would have kept the tremendous forces aligned with the rest of the skeleton.
  2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs, page 156

Definition of "butter"

butter1

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butter2

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butter¹

butter²