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What is the difference between beef and steak?

beef | steak |

As nouns the difference between beef and steak

is that beef is the meat from a cow, bull or other bovines while steak is a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.

As verbs the difference between beef and steak

is that beef is to complain while steak is to cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.

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.
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  • 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?

    Related terms

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    See also

    * beefwood

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To complain.
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  • 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

    Related terms

    * beefy

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    steak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
  • (label) A slice of meat of other large animals; as venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak.
  • *{{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 […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.}}

    Synonyms

    * beefsteak

    Derived terms

    * steak and kidney pie

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
  • * 2000 , Nick Karas, The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing , page 353:
    • Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked'. If they are to be ' steaked , they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.

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