Beef vs Cattle - What's the difference?
beef | cattle |
(uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
# The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
(uncountable) Bovine animals.
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A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
a grudge (+ with )
(slang, uncountable) muscle, size, strength
(slang, uncountable) essence, content
To complain.
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To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
(slang) To fart.
(slang) To feud.
(intransitive, chiefly, Yorkshire) To cry
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
Producing]] or known for raising lots of [[#Noun, beef.
Consisting]] of or containing [[#Noun, beef as an ingredient.
Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).
Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
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(pejorative, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
* {{quote-book, 1961, Gerald Hanley, The Journey Homeward, page=155
, passage="I always knew it, but I always denied it, because I'm one of them, and I'm like them." ¶"We're just cattle ," the Prison Governor said, relieved now.}}
chattel
* {{quote-book, 1552, Parliament of England, An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, and Service in the Church, and Administration of the Sacraments
, passage=That then every person so offending and convict, shall for his third offence, forfeit to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, all his goods and cattles , and shall suffer imprisonment during his life.}}
* {{quote-book, 1684, , Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, year_published=1856
, passage=1684 July. Mistris Dorothy Gray, Adminnestratrix of the Goods and Cattles of Mr Edward Gray, late of Plymouth, deceased,
(uncountable, rare)
* , The Squatting Age in Australia, 1835–1847 , Melbourne University Press (1964), page 315:
* Barry Hannah, “Eating Wife and Friends”, in Airships , Grove Press (1994), ISBN 978-0-8021-3388-5,
* 1996 April 3, Emmett Jordan, "
* 2005 June 25, "Serge" (username), "
As nouns the difference between beef and cattle
is that beef is the meat from a cow, bull or other bovines while cattle is domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).As a verb beef
is to complain.As an adjective beef
is being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.beef
English
(wikipedia beef)Noun
- I love eating beef .
- lean finely textured beef
- boneless lean beef trimmings
- Do you want to raise beeves ?
- He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- He has beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- 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.
- The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
Synonyms
* (meat of a cow)Hyponyms
* (meat of a cow) vealDerived terms
* beefcake * beef jerky * beef on weck * beefsteak * beef stew * lean finely textured beef * boneless lean beef trimmings * beefy * bully beef * corned beef * where's the beef?See also
* beefwoodVerb
(en verb)- Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.
- Ugh, who just beefed in here?
- Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.
- David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off
Derived terms
* beef up * beef outAdjective
(-)- We bought three beef calves this morning.
- beef farms
- beef country
- beef stew
cattle
English
(wikipedia cattle)Noun
(usually used as plural)- Do you want to raise cattle ?
citation
- goods and cattle
citation
- The temptation of a lone white man was too great for any gathering of myall -natives, and sheep-fat and cattle -steak seemed there for the spearing, so that a stockman always ran the risk of attack, especially if his shepherds interfered with the native women.
page 137:
- “But you cooked a human being and ate him,” say I.
- “I couldn’t help it,” says she. “I remember the cattle steaks of the old days, the juicy pork, the dripping joints of lamb, the venison.”
Re: AR activist arrested for spreading 'Mad Cow' disease in US", in rec.food.veg, Usenet :
- Believe it or not Big Mac is one of the ultra radicals who provide fast food cattle burgers to interstate vehicles who drive all over the place providing scraps for rats, cats, flies, etc, so that the Mad Cow Disease might spread even faster than it would otherwise do.
Re: WOW!!!! WHALE BURGERS...... McDonalds Don't You Get Any Ideas", in aus.politics and other newsgroups, Usenet :
- If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle.
- Whale burgers. Cattle burgers......no difference!