steak

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”).

• IPA^(key): /steɪk/

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• Homophone: stake
• Rhymes: -eɪk

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, 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.

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

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

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.

• Keast, Keats, Skate, Skeat, Stake, kates, ketas, skate, stake, takes, teaks

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steak m inan

1. steak

• biftek

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

From English steak.

• IPA^(key): /steːk/

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steak m (plural steaks, diminutive steakje n)

1. steak

• biefstuk

• steack (less current)

Borrowed from English steak.

• IPA^(key): /stɛk/, (Quebec) /stejk/

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steak m (plural steaks)

1. steak (of meat or fish)

• envoyer du steak
• s’en battre les steaks
• steak haché

• bifteck

• “steak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.