What is the difference between fruit and meat?
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(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Isaiah iii. 10
* Macaulay
Offspring from a sexual union.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w), XXV:
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* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Timon of Athens) :
* 1879 , (Silas Hocking),
* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber, 2007, p.13:
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* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w), ch. 8:
(label) The flesh of an animal used as food.
* 2010 , Andy Atkins, The Guardian , 19 October:
(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 ,
* 2006 John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big ,
* 2011 , Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys ,
(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
(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
* 1973 , M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma
* 1977 , A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity
* 1992 , P. Taylor, Tell it Like it Is
* 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
As nouns the difference between fruit and meat
is that fruit is the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization while meat is food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also {{term|meat and drink}}. }.As a verb fruit
is to produce fruit.fruit
English
(wikipedia fruit)Noun
(see for discussion of plural )- While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- the fruit of rashness
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- The fruits of this education became visible.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown
Usage notes
* In the botanical and figurative senses, is usually treated as uncountable: *: a bowl of fruit'''''; ''eat plenty of '''fruit'''''; ''the tree provides '''fruit . * is also sometimes used as the plural in the botanical sense: *: berries, achenes, and nuts are all fruits'''''; ''the '''fruits of this plant split into two parts. * When is often used as a singulative. * In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is fruits. * The culinary sense often does not cover true fruits that are savoury or used chiefly in savoury foods, such as tomatoes and peas. These are normally described simply as vegetables.Derived terms
* bear fruit * fruitcake * fruit cocktail * fruit of one's loins * * fruit of the union * fruitage * fruitarian * fruitful * fruitless * fruit salad * fruit tree * fruity * grapefruit * jackfruit * passion fruit * Sharon fruit * star fruit, starfruit * stone fruitSee also
* for a list of fruitsExternal links
* (Fruit) * (List of fruits) 1000 English basic words ----meat
English
(wikipedia meat)Noun
- I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate . I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.
- And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat .
- Your greatest want is, you want much of meat : / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes.
- As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat .
- 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
- And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.
- 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.
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- 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.
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- Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.
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- Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,
- it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.
- 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?"
- 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."
- Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat " (totem) of another group.
- Our familyusually married the red kangaroo "meat ".
- That’s a beautiful goanna.. He’s my meat , can’t eat him.