STEAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steak mean? 

• STEAK (noun)
  The noun STEAK has 1 sense:

1. a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish

  Familiarity information: STEAK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

cut; cut of meat (a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass)

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

fish steak (cross-section slice of a large fish)

beefsteak (a beef steak usually cooked by broiling)

 Context examples 

Occasionally he graced his table with a piece of round-steak, or with a soup-bone.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And now I am afraid Campbell will be here before there is time to dress a steak, and we have no butcher at hand.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I hope the steak may be beef, but I don't believe it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At last it popped into her head, “The dog is not shut up—he may be running away with the steak; that’s well thought of.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When on the red meat diet, the participants consumed roughly the equivalent of about 8 ounces of steak daily, or two quarter-pound beef patties.

(Study links frequent red meat consumption to high levels of chemical associated with heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

The missus and me can drive down to Crawley in the gig, and a yard of stickin’ plaster and a raw steak will soon set me to rights.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The animal was not mere than fifty feet away, and instantly into the man's mind leaped the vision and the savor of a caribou steak sizzling and frying over a fire.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

During their analysis of compounds released from the substances picked up in the Amazon, the researchers became aware of the presence of a range of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (HAPs), which are typically released as a result of burning organic materials, including cooked steak.

(Lung damage from agricultural fires probed, SciDev.Net)

I dined on what they called "robber steak"—bits of bacon, onion, and beef, seasoned with red pepper, and strung on sticks and roasted over the fire, in the simple style of the London cat's meat!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mr. Knightley looked as if he were more gratified than he cared to express; and before he could make any reply, Mr. Woodhouse, whose thoughts were on the Bates's, said—It is a great pity that their circumstances should be so confined! a great pity indeed! and I have often wished—but it is so little one can venture to do—small, trifling presents, of any thing uncommon—Now we have killed a porker, and Emma thinks of sending them a loin or a leg; it is very small and delicate—Hartfield pork is not like any other pork—but still it is pork—and, my dear Emma, unless one could be sure of their making it into steaks, nicely fried, as ours are fried, without the smallest grease, and not roast it, for no stomach can bear roast pork—I think we had better send the leg—do not you think so, my dear?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)