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Steak vs Streak - What's the difference?

steak | streak |

As nouns the difference between steak and streak

is that steak is a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling while streak is an irregular line left from smearing or motion.

As verbs the difference between steak and streak

is that steak is to cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak while streak is to have or obtain streaks.

steak

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
  • (label) A slice of meat of other large animals; as venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.}}

    Synonyms

    * beefsteak

    Derived terms

    * steak and kidney pie

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
  • * 2000 , Nick Karas, The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing , page 353:
  • Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked'. If they are to be ' steaked , they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.

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    streak

    English

    (wikipedia streak)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
  • *
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
  • A continuous series of like events.
  • The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
  • A moth of the family Geometridae .
  • *
  • A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
  • (shipbuilding) A strake.
  • A rung or round of a ladder.
  • Derived terms

    * streak of good luck

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To have or obtain streaks.
  • If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak.
  • (slang) To run naked in public.
  • It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field.
  • To create streaks.
  • You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight.
  • To move very swiftly.
  • (obsolete, UK, Scotland) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
  • See also

    * losing streak * streaker * winning streak * talk a blue streak

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