PORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pork mean? 

• PORK (noun)
  The noun PORK has 2 senses:

1. meat from a domestic hog or pig

2. a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

  Familiarity information: PORK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meat from a domestic hog or pig

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

porc; pork

Hypernyms ("pork" is a kind of...):

meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)

Meronyms (parts of "pork"):

cut of pork (cut of meat from a hog or pig)

pork loin (meat from a loin of pork)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pork"):

cochon de lait; suckling pig (whole young pig suitable for roasting)

salt pork (fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt)

pigs' feet; pigs' knuckles (feet or knuckles of hogs used as food; pickled or stewed or jellied)

Holonyms ("pork" is a part of...):

grunter; hog; pig; squealer; Sus scrofa (domestic swine)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

pork; pork barrel

Hypernyms ("pork" is a kind of...):

appropriation (money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose)

 Context examples 

Add to that the powder, pork, and bread-bags.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“We consider our Hartfield pork,” replied Mr. Woodhouse—“indeed it certainly is, so very superior to all other pork, that Emma and I cannot have a greater pleasure than—”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Heterocyclic Amines are formed from cooking meat such as beef, pork, fowl, and fish when amino acids and creatine (found in muscle) react at high temperatures.

(Heterocyclic Amine Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

Six of the 70 study participants evaluated for unexplained frequent anaphylaxis tested positive for an allergy to galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or alpha-gal, a sugar molecule found in beef, pork, lamb and other red meats.

(NIAID scientists link cases of unexplained anaphylaxis to red meat allergy, National Institutes of Health)

“Why that horse,” said the carrier, jerking the rein to point him out, “would be deader than pork afore he got over half the ground.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Albendazole is used in the treatment of dog and pork tapeworm-causing diseases, including hydatid disease and neurocysticercosis.

(Albendazole, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists assessed the strains of E. coli from infected humans and looked for the same strains in sewage, dairy farm slurry, human faeces, and contaminated foods including beef, pork, chicken, salad and fruit.

(Wash your hands or else spread superbug E. coli, say scientists, Wikinews)

The findings are limited because data came from questionnaires that did not include certain types of meats (such as pork and lamb) and certain cooking methods (such as stewing and stir-frying).

(High Temp Grilled Meat May Raise Blood Pressure, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A heavy swivel-hook, baited with fat salt-pork, was dropped overside; and by the time I had compressed the severed veins and arteries, the sailors were singing and heaving in the offending monster.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You can remember how it was in the winter months before Toulon, Stone, when we had neither firing, wine, beef, pork, nor flour aboard the ships, nor a spare piece of rope, canvas, or twine.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)