Beef vs. Beefsteak — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Beef and Beefsteak
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Beef
Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle, particularly skeletal muscle. Humans have been eating beef since prehistoric times.
Beefsteak
A beefsteak, often called just steak, is a flat cut of beef with parallel faces, usually cut perpendicular to the muscle fibers. In common restaurant service a single serving has a raw mass ranging from 120 to 600 grams (4 to 21 oz).
Beef
The flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, used as food
Beef cattle
There was the smell of roast beef
Beefsteak
A thick slice of lean beef, typically from the rump and eaten grilled or fried
Beefsteaks so large that one slice makes a sandwich
High-quality beefsteak
Beef
Flesh with well-developed muscle
He needs a little more beef on his bones
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Beefsteak
A slice of beef, such as one taken from the loin or the hindquarters, suitable for broiling or frying.
Beef
A complaint or grievance
He has a beef with education: it doesn't teach the basics of investing
Beefsteak
(A) steak cut from beef cattle.
Beef
A criminal charge
Getting caught with pot in the sixties was a narco beef
Beefsteak
(countable) {{vern, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).
Beef
Complain
He was beefing about how the recession was killing the business
Beefsteak
(uncountable) The herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.
Beef
A full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow, especially one intended for use as meat.
Beefsteak
(countable) beefsteak tomato
Beef
The flesh of a slaughtered full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow.
Beefsteak
(countable) beefsteak mushroom
Beef
(Informal) Human muscle; brawn.
Beefsteak
: A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.
Beef
Pl. beefs Slang A complaint.
Beefsteak
A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.
Beef
To complain.
Beefsteak
A slice of beef usually cooked by broiling
Beef
(uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
I love eating beef.
Beef
The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
Lean finely textured beef
Boneless lean beef trimmings
Beef
Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.
Beef
Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
Beef
(uncountable) Bovine animals.
Beef
A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
Do you want to raise beeves?
Beef
A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
He's got beef over what you said.
He's got a beef with everyone in the room.
Remember what happened last fall? That's his beef with me.
Beef
(Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
Beef
To complain.
Beef
To add weight or strength to.
Beef
To fart; break wind.
Ugh, who just beefed in here?
Beef
To feud or hold a grudge against.
Those two are beefing right now
– best you stay out of it for now.
Beef
To cry.
David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off.
Beef
To fail or mess up.
I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.
Beef
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
We bought three beef calves this morning.
Beef
Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
Beef farms
Beef country
Beef
Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
Beef stew
Beef
(slang) beefy; powerful; robust.
Wow, your audio setup is beef!
Beef
An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, Bos taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.
Beef
The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
Beef
Applied colloquially to human flesh.
Beef
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
Beef
Cattle that are reared for their meat
Beef
Meat from an adult domestic bovine
Beef
Informal terms for objecting;
I have a gripe about the service here
Beef
Complain;
What was he hollering about?
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