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Beef vs Market - What's the difference?

beef | market |

As nouns the difference between beef and market

is that beef is (uncountable) the meat from a cow, bull or other bovines while market is .

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

  • (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
  • I love eating beef .
  • # The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
  • lean finely textured beef
  • boneless lean beef trimmings
  • (uncountable) Bovine animals.
  • *
  • A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
  • Do you want to raise beeves ?
  • a grudge (+ with )
  • He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
    He has beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
  • (slang, uncountable) muscle, size, strength
  • 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.
  • (slang, uncountable) essence, content
  • The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.

    Synonyms

    * (meat of a cow)

    Hyponyms

    * (meat of a cow) veal

    Derived 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

    * beefwood

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To complain.
  • *
  • To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
  • Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.
  • (slang) To fart.
  • Ugh, who just beefed in here?
  • (slang) To feud.
  • Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.
  • (intransitive, chiefly, Yorkshire) To cry
  • David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off

    Derived terms

    * beef up * beef out

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
  • We bought three beef calves this morning.
  • Producing]] or known for raising lots of [[#Noun, beef.
  • beef farms
    beef country
  • Consisting]] of or containing [[#Noun, beef as an ingredient.
  • beef stew

    market

    English

    (wikipedia market)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘ […] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects … , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.}}
  • An organised, often periodic, trading event at such site.
  • * Definition used by famous economist of the Austrian school, Ludwig Von Mises, in his book Human Action.
  • The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
  • A group of potential customers for one's product.
  • * (John Stuart Mill) (1608-1674)
  • There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market.
  • A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
  • A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-15, volume=410, issue=8878, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Turn it off , passage=If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets , […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.}}
  • The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
  • (label) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?

    Synonyms

    * bazaar * fair * mart

    Derived terms

    * bear market * black market * bull market * commodity market * common market * Common Market * currency market * down-market * drug on the market * fair market value * factor market * farmers market * financial market * flea market * free market * housing market * market basket * market bell * market bubble * market capitalization * market clearing * market correction * market cycle * marketing * market economy * market failure * market garden * market index * market jitters * market maker * market microstructure * market opening * market order * market overhang * marketplace * market portfolio * market price * market research * market return * market risk * market sector * market share * market sweep * market tone * market value * mass-market * mini market * money market * on the market * open market * stock market * supermarket * primary market * product market * secondary market * test-market

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
  • We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter .
  • To sell
  • ''We marketed more this quarter already then all last year!
  • To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
  • Derived terms

    * marketeer