cheese vs discontinue

cheese is a noun but discontinue is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheese	Yes	No	Yes	No
discontinue	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, discontinue is a hypernym of cheese; that is, discontinue is a word with a broader meaning than cheese:

Other hypernyms of cheese include cease, give up, lay off, quit, stop.

cheese (noun)	discontinue (noun)
a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States

cheese (verb)	discontinue (verb)
wind onto a cheese	prevent completion
used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)	put an end to a state or an activity
	come to or be at an end