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steak

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English

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steaks

Etymology

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From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (roast; meat roasted on a stick). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (to roast).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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steak (countable and uncountable, plural steaks)

  1. beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
  2. (by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
    venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks
    • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects [] ”, in The Guardian Weekly[2], volume 189, number 7, page 32:
      The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters [] But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
  3. A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.

Coordinate terms

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  • (fish): filet (a slice of meat cut with the grain of the fish)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • French: steack
  • Thai: สเต็ก (sà-dték)
  • Hebrew: סטייק

Translations

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Verb

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steak (third-person singular simple present steaks, present participle steaking, simple past and past participle steaked)

  1. To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
    • 2000, Nick Karas, The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing, page 353:
      Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked. If they are to be steaked, they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.

References

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  1. ^ Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700[1], second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 115, page 625:The sixteenth and seventeenth-century orthoepists do not distinguish great, break, steak, and yea from other ME ę̄ words..

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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steak m inan

  1. steak

Declension

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See also

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Further reading

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  • steak”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • steak”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

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Etymology

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From English steak.

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Noun

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steak m (plural steaks, diminutive steakje n)

  1. steak

Synonyms

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French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English steak.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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steak m (plural steaks)

  1. steak (of meat or fish)

Derived terms

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