Meat vs Lean - What's the difference?
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* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w), XXV:
* , II.8:
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Timon of Athens) :
* 1879 , (Silas Hocking),
* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber, 2007, p.13:
* :
* 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
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to'', ''toward , etc.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .
* (1809-1892)
* , chapter=23
, title= To hang outwards.
To press against.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
(of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
(of meat) having little fat.
Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
Of a fuel-air mixture, having more air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; more air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
(printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
* {{quote-magazine
, year=1938
, month=July
, author=Blaine and Dupont Miller
, title=Weather Hop
, page=25
, magazine=Boy's Life
, publisher=Boy Scouts of America
, issn=0006-8608
* {{quote-magazine
, year=2002
, month=July
, author=Tom Benenson
, title=Can Your Engine Run Too Lean?
, volume=129
, issue=7
, page=73
, magazine=Flying
, issn=0015-4806
As a noun meat
is meatus.As a proper noun lean is
.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.
page 41
- 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.
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) seeAntonyms
* (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 * sweatmeatlean
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; via Proto-Indo-European with climate, cline.Verb
- They delight rather to lean to their old customs.
- He leaned not on his fathers but himself.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
- His fainting limbs against an oak he leant .
Derived terms
* lean back * leaning * lean on * lean-toEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- a lean''' budget; a '''lean harvest
- lean copy, matter, or type
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose. }}
citation, passage=Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude. }}