Beefed vs Reefed - What's the difference?
beefed | reefed |
(beef)
(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.
(reef)
Scabby; scurvy.
A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
(Australia, South Africa) A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
(nautical) A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind.
A reef knot.
(nautical) To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
* 1970' July–December, Margaret Quilty, ''Roller '''Reefing Made Easy'', '' ,
* 1995 , David Seidman, The Complete Sailor: Learning the Art of Sailing ,
* 2004 , Charlie Wing, How Boat Things Work ,
(Australian) To pull or yank strongly.
* 1986 , Jan Wositzky, Me and Phar Lap: The Remarkable Life of Tommy Woodcock , 2011,
* 1994 , Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp: Murrie Drovers and Their Stories , 2010,
* 2007 , Marion Houldsworth, Maybe It?ll Rain Tomorrow , 2012,
(nautical, of paddles) To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.
As verbs the difference between beefed and reefed
is that beefed is (beef) while reefed is (reef).beefed
English
Verb
(head)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
reefed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *reef
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ref, hreof, from (etyl) . Compare (l), (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (Scotland)Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From earlier riff, from (etyl) rif, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia reef) (en noun)Derived terms
* coral reef * close reef * reef band * reef knot * reef line * reef points * reef rash * reef tackle * take a reef inVerb
page 63,
- Be sure the blocks are securely mounted—they carry a fairish load when the sail is reefed .
- If both reefing line and main halyard are led to the cockpit, even singlehanded reefing is a breeze.
page 104,
- Mains are made smaller by reefing . This can be done by rolling up the sail around the boom, or by the more traditional method of tying down a panel along the foot.
page 108,
- The reefing system for a mainsail must be designed to operate efficiently under adverse conditions and to provide proper sail shape when reefed .
page 49,
- And when the Cup came on he stirred them up ?round the barrier and he flew out of the barrier and he pulled and reefed' and pulled and ' reefed and Lewis didn?t let him settle down until about three furlongs from home and when he did settle the horse was all out of stride and he went back through the field a fair bit.
page 73,
- Alf told me that one young white stockman, eager to impress the girls, went outside and mounted his horse, then began showing off his prowess, racing past the pub, wheeling and reefing his horse up and down the street, yackeyeing and whooping, flogging his horse with a battered old hat and always turning towards the pub to see if the girls were watching these feats of horsemanship.
page 104,
- head stockman would say ‘Cut one out but take him at a walk.? And if you could get that beast out without reefing your horse around, the head stockman – he?d be a pretty cluey old coot - he?s watching that horse?s ears more than what you were doing.
- Reef the paddles.