Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A slice of meat, typically beef, usually cut thick and across the muscle grain and served broiled or fried.
- n. A thick slice of a large fish cut across the body.
- n. A patty of ground meat broiled or fried.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A slice of flesh, as beef, pork, venison, or halibut, broiled or fried, or cut for broiling or frying.
- n. A slash or panel in a garment.
Wiktionary
- n. A slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
- n. By extension, a slice of meat of other large animals; as venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling; -- also extended to the meat of other large animals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish
Etymologies
- From Old Norse steik ("roast"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik; see steig- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Sometimes this steak is wrongly called a club steak, but no confusion will result if it is remembered that a _club steak_ is a porterhouse steak that has most of the bone and the flank end, or "tail," removed.”
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish
“Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait".”
“Ginny told funny stories about the tedium of her training that day, Chris regaled them with bus commute anecdotes, and Gillam, sitting next to Myra, kept making her smile with his repeated "This steak is my most favorite, Mama.”
“She was flummoxed by the menu, and finally ordered steak au poivre probably because she recognized the word steak, and when it came asked the waiter for ketchup.”
“Can't Post | Private Reply back in alberta where all steak is prime, i always waited for the steak sale when the meat reverted back to it's natural colour and got it for half price-SNORK”
“Last night I ate the most delicious home raised beef sirloin steak I have ever made.”
“Wake up and smell the BBQ steak from the billboard”
“So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system.”
“Dr. Ross points out, "First they refer to pastries as a 'bad' breakfast, and then they call steak and eggs 'unhealthy'-but putting those foods in the same category is ridiculous.”
“Hmmm. The New York Times Style section just did an article on how it's cool to like red-meat or something, that men love a woman who loves a big steak, which is true of course, if you're an anemic, spindly dishwater blond type ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘steak’.
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Meat Parts: the Cuts, the Innards, an...
T-bone - Sounds good!
Shoulder - Alright.
Liver - Fine.
Sweetbread - Okay.
Gizzard - Pushing it.
Brains - What?!wing, wedge bone sirloin, veal, umbles, tri-tip, tripe, triangle steak, tournedo, top sirloin, top loin, tongue, thigh and 147 more...
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inside jokes
this will eventually be a very long list
the exact same side, hots like tater tots, you can't croth t..., flailing blown up..., next!, no you!, eyehh, math problem, tunas, your boob is on m..., steak
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Main Courses
fried liver, steak, fillet of beef, veal cutlets, saute meat, grilled meatballs, mixed grills, roast meat, lamb chops, macaroni, ravioli, rice pilaff and 7 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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House, Sweet House
"House" words and phrases, literal and figurative. If another word comes before "house" in the phrase, it's listed on its own; if the phrase starts with "house," I've listed the part that comes aft...
publishing, brokerage, bridge, deck, smoke, road, vaudeville, whore, of representatives, of ill repute, of worship, movie and 174 more...
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darkmatt3r's Words
contusion, polymorphic encap..., wiki, blog, recursive, hacker, 1337, obfuscation, php, pflumm, wicket wicket .com, database and 35 more...
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what's the point?
word groups collected around pointing
spire, spear, spike, spit, steak, stick, stuck, pike, index, indicate, point, punctual and 7 more...
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five-letter words that start with "st"
start, stare, stair, stain, strap, strop, strip, stink, stank, stuck, stack, stock and 47 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for steak.
dontcry I read that today and I love it. *sniff* Sep 28, 2008
john But as Mr. Newman told Playboy magazine, in an often-repeated quotation about marital fidelity, “I have steak at home; why go out for hamburger?�?
The New York Times, Paul Newman, a Magnetic Titan of Hollywood, Is Dead at 83, by Aljean Harmetz, September 27, 2008 Sep 27, 2008