steak

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English

steaks

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Translations

Verb

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

  1. ^ Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700‎, 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.”.

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

steak m inan

  1. steak

Declension

Declension of steak (velar masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative steak steaky
genitive steaku steaků
dative steaku steakům
accusative steak steaky
vocative steaku steaky
locative steaku steacích
instrumental steakem steaky

See also

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

From English steak.

Pronunciation

Noun

steak m (plural steaks, diminutive steakje n)

  1. steak

Synonyms

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English steak.

Pronunciation

Noun

steak m (plural steaks)

  1. steak (of meat or fish)

Derived terms

See also

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