(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Cheese is a solid food made from milk. It is usually white or yellow.
...bread and ~.
...~ sauce...
He cut the mould off a piece of ~.
...delicious French ~s.
N-MASS
see also cottage ~ , cream ~ , goat ~ , macaroni ~
2.
as different as chalk and ~: see chalk