meat
noun/miːt/
Слово англійською: meat
Переклад meat українською: м'ясо
Детальний опис
- [uncountable, countable] the soft part of an animal or a bird that can be eaten as food; a particular type of this
- a piece/slice of meat
- horse meat (= from a horse)
- meat-eating animals
- Do you eat meat?
- Their diet consists of lean meat and vegetables.
- Store raw meat on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.
- cured meat (= treated with smoke, salt, etc to preserve it)
- Many processed meats have unhealthy levels of sodium.
- meat products
- Use the highest quality cuts of meat, fish or poultry.
- There's not much meat on this chop.
- (figurative, humorous) There’s not much meat on her (= she is very thin).
Homophones meat | meetmeat meet/miːt/- meat noun
- I won't have any meat, thank you—I'm a vegetarian.
- meet verb
- I'll meet you at the station when your train gets in.
- This chapter contains the real meat of the writer's argument.
- Let's get right to the meat of the matter and address the problem.
Word OriginOld English mete ‘food’ or ‘article of food’ (as in sweetmeat), of Germanic origin.
Idioms
dead meat
- (informal) in serious trouble
- If anyone finds out, you're dead meat.
easy meat
- a person who seems easy to defeat or cheat
- Rogue traders saw elderly people as easy meat for overcharging.
meat and drink to somebody (British English)
- something that somebody enjoys very much
- This degree of chaos is meat and drink to Guy.
- something that is a normal thing to deal with for somebody
- This kind of research task is meat and drink to these students.
one man’s meat is another man’s poison
- (saying) used to say that different people like different things; what one person likes very much, another person does not like at all