What is the difference between flesh and meat?

Meat is a synonym of flesh.

As nouns the difference between flesh and meat

is that flesh is the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat while meat is food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also {{term|meat and drink}}. }.

As a verb flesh

is to bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.

flesh

English

(wikipedia flesh)

Noun

(-)

The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

*1918 , Fannie Farmer, , Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game:

*:The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.

The skin of a human or animal.

(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.

(archaic) Animal tissue regarded as food; meat.

*:Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely / syr and I wille doo hit sayd sir launcelot / Also I charge you that ye ete no flesshe as longe as ye be in the quest of the sancgreal / nor ye shalle drynke noo wyne / and that ye here masse dayly and ye may doo hit

*c.1530s , , 7, xix-xxi,

*:The flesh' that twycheth any vnclene thinge shall not be eaten. but burnt with fire:and all that be clene in their flesh, maye eate ' flesh .

*:Yf any soule eate of the flesh' of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclennesse yet apon him, the same soule shall perisshe from amonge his peoole(sic). ¶ Moreouer yf a soule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclennesse of man or of any vnclene beest or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ad the eate of the ' flesh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that soule shall perissh from his people.

The human body as a physical entity.

*c.1530s , , 6, x,

*:And the preast shall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his flesh , and take awaye the asshes whiche the fire of the burntsacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them besyde the alter,

(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.

*1769 , , 5, xvii,

*:For the flesh' lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the ' flesh : and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

*1929 January, Bassett Morgan ( ,

*:But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh .

(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.

The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.

*2003 , Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest , page 81,

*:The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.

(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

*Cowper

*:There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.

(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.

*Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 27

*:He is our brother and our flesh .

A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.

* 1933 , Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel

Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.

(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone (in) or (to) a given practice.

*, II.7:

And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.

To put flesh on; to fatten.

To add details.

The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.

To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

Derived terms

* exchange flesh * flesh and blood * flesh fly * flesh out * flesh side * flesh-wing * flesh wound * flesher * fleshing * fleshpot * fleshy * goose flesh * in the flesh * one flesh * pound of flesh * press the flesh * proud flesh * way of all flesh

Anagrams

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meat

English

(wikipedia meat)

Noun

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w), XXV:

I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate . I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.

* , II.8:

And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat .

* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Timon of Athens) :

Your greatest want is, you want much of meat : / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes.

* 1879 , (Silas Hocking),

As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat .

* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber, 2007, p.13:

The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference.

* :

And thenne he blewe his horne that the maronners had yeuen hym / And whanne they within the Castel herd that horne / they put forthe many knyghtes and there they stode vpon the walles / and said with one voys / welcome be ye to this castel // and sire Palomydes entred in to the castel / And within a whyle he was serued with many dyuerse metes

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w), ch. 8:

And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.

(label) The flesh of an animal used as food.

* 2010 , Andy Atkins, The Guardian , 19 October:

While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.

(label) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.

(label) A penis.

* 1993 , Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies , page 538

He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.

* 2006 John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big , page 54

Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.

* 2011 , Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys , page 41

Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,

(label) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.

(label) The best or most substantial part of something.

* 1577 , (Gerald Eades Bentley), The Arte of Angling

it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.

(label) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).

A meathead.

(label) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

* 1949 , Oceania , Vol.XX

When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"

* 1973 , M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma

Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."

* 1977 , A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity

Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat " (totem) of another group.

* 1992 , P. Taylor, Tell it Like it Is

Our familyusually married the red kangaroo "meat ".

* 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies

That’s a beautiful goanna.. He’s my meat , can’t eat him.

Usage notes

The meaning "flesh of an animal used as food" is often understood to exclude (l) and other (l). For example, the rules for abstaining from meat in the Roman Catholic Church do not extend to fish; likewise, some people who consider themselves (l)s also eat fish (though the more precise term for such a person is (l)).

Synonyms

* (l) * See also * (penis) see

Antonyms

* (l)

Derived terms

* beat the meat * dead meat * fresh meat * meat and two veg * meat draw * meat hook / meathook * meat pie * meat raffle * meat tray * meat wagon * meatball * meatface * meathead * meatman * meat safe * meaty * sweatmeat

Anagrams

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