Meaning of meat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat).
   uncountable
2. flesh, the soft part of a body which covers the bones
3. The fundamental parts or part; the basis.
4. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
   countable
5. an animal’s meat, or by extension the edible “fleshy” or soft part of a fruit or vegetable
6. the flesh of animals or birds used as food. She does not eat meat; (also adjective) What did you have for the meat course? vleis لَحْم месо carne maso; masitý das Fleisch; Fleisch-... kød; kød- κρέαςcarne liha گوشت liha viandeבשר मांस meso hús daging kjöt carne; di carne 肉 (식용의) 짐승 고기 mėsa gaļa daging vleeskjøttmięso غوښه carne (de) carne мясо mäso; mäsový meso meso kött เนื้อสัตว์ et 肉類，肉類的 м'ясо خوردنی گوشت thịt 食用肉类
   also adjective
7. Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
   archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable
8. The edible flesh of animals, especially that of mammals as opposed to that of fish or poultry.
9. A type of food, a dish.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
10. The edible part, as of a piece of fruit or a nut.
11. A meal.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
12. The essence, substance, or gist: the meat of the editorial.
13. Meal; flour.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
14. Slang Something that one enjoys or excels in; a forte: Tennis is his meat.
    Slang
15. Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
    uncountable
16. Nourishment; food: "Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink" (Edna St. Vincent Millay).
17. A penis.
    countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
18. Vulgar Slang a. The human body regarded as an object of sexual desire.
    Vulgar Slang
19. The best or most substantial part of something.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
20. (Cookery) the flesh of mammals used as food, as distinguished from that of birds and fish
21. The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
    countable, uncountable
22. (Cookery) anything edible, esp flesh with the texture of meat: crab meat.
23. A meathead.
    countable, slang, uncountable
24. A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.”

“The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.”

“In many parts of the world, shark meat is an acceptable and desirable form of protein.”

“While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.”

“The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.”

“It should come as no surprise that while the peasants are expected to eat fermented fungi, lab-grown meats and maggot milkshakes, the Controligarchs — with their private chefs — have no intention of doing the same.”

“Regularly eating red and processed meats in particular is associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, according to an analysis of data from 31 study cohorts published Tuesday in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.”

“I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.”

“And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat.”

“Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes[…].”

“As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat.”

“The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference[…].”

“And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.”

“The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.”

“She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.”

“He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.”

“Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.”

“Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,”

“[…]it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.”

“The editor called the new "novels" book-lengthers without the trivialities and slow development of the usual novel. "They have all the plot complications, meat and excitement that readers demand," he stated.”

“He hit it right on the meat of the bat.”

“Throw it in here, meat.”

“When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"”

“Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."”

“Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat" (totem) of another group.”

“Our family[…]usually married the red kangaroo "meat".”

“1993, J. Janson, Gunjies That’s a beautiful goanna. […]. He’s my meat, can’t eat him.”

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