Muscle vs Meat - What's the difference?
muscle | meat |
(uncountable) A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
(countable) An organ composed of muscle tissue.
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(uncountable, usually plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise.
* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xii
(uncountable, figurative) Strength, force.
* 2010 , Adam Quinn, US Foreign Policy in Context , page 81
* 2013 , John D. MacDonald, The Long Lavender Look , page 15
(uncountable, figurative) Hired strongmen or bodyguards.
* 1985 — , The Infinity Doctors , p 34
To use force to make progress, especially physical force.
* 1988', Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", '''' ' 47 (6): 28-34.
* 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
In uncountable terms the difference between muscle and meat
is that muscle is a contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement while meat is any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc. }.In countable terms the difference between muscle and meat
is that muscle is an organ composed of muscle tissue while meat is a type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. }.As a verb muscle
is to use force to make progress, especially physical force.muscle
English
(wikipedia muscle)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Muscle consists largely of actin and myosin filaments.
- His brow and hair and the palms of his hands were wet, and there was a kind of nervous contraction of his muscles . They seemed to ripple and string tense.
- You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker
- The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
- The lesson to be drawn from the events of 1914, to Roosevelt's mind, was that civilization needed muscle to defend it, not just solemn words.
- It was going to take muscle to pluck Miss Agnes out of the canal.
- It was easy enough to dodge him, let him crash into the floorboards. Peltroc knew that his priority was the leader, not the hired muscle .
Derived terms
* beer muscles * cardiac muscle * gym muscles * involuntary muscle * make a muscle * * musclebound * muscle boy * muscle car * muscled * muscledom * muscle dysmorphia * muscleful * muscle in on * muscleless * muscleman * muscle relaxant * muscle shirt * musclesome * muscle tone * muscle up * muscle-up * muscled up * muscular * muscularity * musculature * muscly * skeletal muscle * smooth muscle * voluntary muscleSee also
* myology * myotomyVerb
(muscl)- He muscled his way through the crowd.
- Hensel and Wilson hit a series of leg shots simultaneously as Christian muscles between them with Quinn right on his heels.
Derived terms
* outmusclemeat
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.