English > meat: 3 senses > noun 1, foodMeaning | The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food. |
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Category of | au jus | Served in its natural juices or gravy |
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Narrower | beef, boeuf | meat from an adult domestic bovine |
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bird, fowl | The flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food |
carbonado | A piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled |
cold cuts | sliced assorted cold meats |
cut, cut of meat | A piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass |
dark meat | The flesh of the legs of fowl used as food |
escargot, snail | edible terrestrial / terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic |
game | The flesh of wild animals that is used for food |
halal | (Islam) meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah |
horsemeat, horseflesh | The flesh of horses as food |
jerky, jerked meat, jerk | meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun |
lamb | The flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food |
mouton, mutton | meat from a mature domestic sheep |
pemmican, pemican | lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat |
pork, porc | meat from a domestic hog or pig |
raw meat | uncooked meat |
red meat | meat that is dark in color before cooking (as beef, venison, lamb, mutton) |
sausage | Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings |
sausage meat | Any meat that is minced and spiced and cooked as patties or used to fill sausages |
stew meat | tough meat that needs stewing to be edible |
variety meat, organs | edible viscera of a butchered animal |
veal, veau | meat from a calf |
Broader | food, solid food | Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid / liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment |
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Substances | palmitic acid, hexadecanoic acid | A saturated fatty acid that is the major fat in meat and dairy products |
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protein | Any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells |
Spanish | carne |
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Catalan | carn |
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Adjectives | meaty | like or containing meat |
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English > meat: 3 senses > noun 3, cognitionMeaning | The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. |
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Synonyms | kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty |
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Narrower | bare bones | (plural) the most basic facts or elements |
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hypostasis | (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality |
quiddity, haecceity | The essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other |
quintessence | The purest and most concentrated essence of something |
stuff | A critically important or characteristic component |
Broader | content, cognitive content, mental object | The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned |
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Spanish | centro, corazón, enjundia, esencia, médula, meollo, núcleo, quid, sustancia |
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Catalan | bessó, centre, cor, essència, nucli, quid, substància |
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Adjectives | meaty | being on topic and prompting thought |
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