Margarine vs. Butter

A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.

(dated) The solid ingredient of human fat, olive oil, etc.

A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute for butter, made primarily from refined vegetable oils, sometimes including animal fats, and churned with skim milk to form a semisolid emulsion; also called oleomargarine; artificial butter.

Example: ‘The word margarine shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not.’;

Margarin.

a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter

Margarine (, also UK: , US: (listen)) is a spread used for flavoring, baking and cooking. It is most often used as a substitute for butter.

A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).

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).

Example: ‘peanut butter’;

Any specific soft substance.

Example: ‘butter of antimony; butter of arsenic’;

Someone who butts, or who butts in.

(transitive) To spread butter on.

Example: ‘Butter the toast.’;

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.

To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.

One who, or that which, butts.

To cover or spread with butter.

Example: ‘I know what's what. I know on which sideMy bread is buttered.’;

To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use

a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head

spread butter on;

Example: ‘butter bread’;

a pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a spread or in cooking.

spread (something) with butter

Example: ‘Lily buttered a slice of toast’;

Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream. It is a semi-solid emulsion at room temperature, consisting of approximately 80% butterfat.