different between emollient vs cream

English

Etymology

From French émollient, from Latin emolli?ns, present active participle of ?molli? (“make soft”), from ex- + molli?, from mollis (“soft”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m?l.?.?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m?l.j?nt/

Noun

emollient (plural emollients)

1. Something which softens or lubricates the skin; moisturizer.
   • 2008, Carol A. Miller, Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults (Fifth edition), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, p. 505,

     [T]he effectiveness of an emollient is based on its ability to prevent water evaporation, […]

2. Anything soothing the mind, or that makes something more acceptable.
   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas,

     Attentive conversation is an emollient I lack sorely aboard Prophetess & the doctor is a veritable polymath.

Translations

Adjective

emollient (comparative more emollient, superlative most emollient)

1. Moisturizing.
2. Soothing or mollifying.

Translations

Related terms

• mollify

Latin

Verb

?mollient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ?molli?

English

Alternative forms

• creme (14th century onwards)
• creyme (14th-15th centuries)

Etymology

From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek ?????? (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin cr?mum (“skim”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English r?am (“cream”) (> modern ream).Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

cream (countable and uncountable, plural creams)

1. The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
   1. (standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
   2. (standards of identity, Britain) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
   3. (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.

2. A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
3. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
   • 2004, Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store, Rodale, ?ISBN, page 267:

     Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.

4. (figuratively) The best part of something.
   • 1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), Don Quixote (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)

     Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.

5. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
   • 1756, Oliver Goldsmith, The Double Transformation

     In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.

6. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
   • 2001, Darwin Porter, Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!!^[sic] (novel),^[1] Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., ?ISBN, page 155,

     He rode me for ten—or was it fifteen?—minutes before one final fuckthrust that filled me completely with his cream.

   • 2003, Dominique Adair, “Two Days, Three Nights” in Tied with a Bow,^[2] Ellora’s Cave Publishing, ?ISBN, page 74,

     He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.

   • 2004, Art Wiederhold, Wild Flowers,^[3] iUniverse, ?ISBN, page 158,

     When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.

7. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
   • , Book V:

     there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.

Synonyms

• crème, creme; ream

Descendants

• ? Chinese: ??, ?? (qílín)
• ? Hindi: ????? (kr?m)
• ? Indonesian: krim
• ? Japanese: ???? (kur?mu)
• ? Korean: ?? (keurim)
• ? Thai: ???? (kriim)
• ? Zulu: ukhilimu

Translations

Adjective

cream (not comparable)

1. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

Synonyms

• crème, creme

Translations

Verb

cream (third-person singular simple present creams, present participle creaming, simple past and past participle creamed)

1. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.

   Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.

2. To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
3. (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.

   We creamed the opposing team!

4. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
   • 1971, Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, “Grease Lightnin’”, Grease

     Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.

5. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
6. (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
7. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
8. (transitive, figuratively) To take off the best or choicest part of.
9. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
   • 1871, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks

     creaming the fragrant cups

10. (intransitive) To gather or form cream.

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See also

Anagrams

• Carme, McRae, crame, crema, macer, recam

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kre?am]

Verb

cream

1. first-person singular imperfect of crea
2. first-person plural imperfect of crea