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Beef vs. Beefsteak — What's the Difference?

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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