Beef vs. Steak
Beef and Steak Definitions
Beef
A full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow, especially one intended for use as meat.
Steak
A slice of meat, typically beef, usually cut thick and across the muscle grain and served broiled or fried.
Beef
The flesh of a slaughtered full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow.
Steak
A thick slice of a large fish cut across the body.
Beef
(Informal) Human muscle; brawn.
Steak
A patty of ground meat broiled or fried.
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Beef
Pl. beefs Slang A complaint.
Steak
, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
Beef
To complain.
Steak
(by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
Venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks
Beef
(uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
I love eating beef.
Steak
(seafood) A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.
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Beef
The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
Lean finely textured beef
Boneless lean beef trimmings
Steak
To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
Beef
Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.
Steak
A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling; - also extended to the meat of other large animals; as, venison steak; bear steak; pork steak; turtle steak.
Beef
Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
Steak
A slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish
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Beef
(uncountable) Bovine animals.
Beef
A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
Do you want to raise beeves?
Beef
A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
He's got beef over what you said.
He's got a beef with everyone in the room.
Remember what happened last fall? That's his beef with me.
Beef
(Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
Beef
To complain.
Beef
To add weight or strength to.
Beef
To fart; break wind.
Ugh, who just beefed in here?
Beef
To feud or hold a grudge against.
Those two are beefing right now
– best you stay out of it for now.
Beef
To cry.
David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off.
Beef
To fail or mess up.
I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.
Beef
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
We bought three beef calves this morning.
Beef
Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
Beef farms
Beef country
Beef
Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
Beef stew
Beef
(slang) beefy; powerful; robust.
Wow, your audio setup is beef!
Beef
An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, Bos taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.
Beef
The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
Beef
Applied colloquially to human flesh.
Beef
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
Beef
Cattle that are reared for their meat
Beef
Meat from an adult domestic bovine
Beef
Informal terms for objecting;
I have a gripe about the service here
Beef
Complain;
What was he hollering about?
