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Etymology
OE. mete

Pronunciation
w:AHD|AHD: m�t
IPA|/mi�t/
w:SAMPA|SAMPA: /mi:t/
audio|en-us-meat.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-i�t|-i�t

Homophones
meet, mete

Anagrams
mate
meta
tame
team

Noun
en-noun|s|-

1. uncountable Food that comes from the muscle or other part of an animal.
2. countable A type of meat.
3. Any sort of flesh.

#:The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.

1. volume|Volume or substance

#:If the assembly is too flexible, we could add some more meat to the supports to stiffen it up.

1. figurative The best part of something

#: We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.

1. baseball The sweet spot

#: He hit it right on the meat of the bat.

1. Meathead

#: Throw it in here, meat.

1. context|Australian Aboriginal a totem

#*1949, Oceania, Vol. XX
#*:When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"
#*1973, M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma
#*:Granny Sullivan was �dead against� the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."
#*1977, A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity
#*:Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat" (totem) of another group.
#*1992, P. Taylor Tell it Like it Is
#*:Our family [�] usually married the red kangaroo "meat".
#*1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
#*:That�s a beautiful goanna. [�]. He�s my meat, can�t eat him.

Synonyms
flesh

Derived terms
rel-top
dead meat
fresh meat
rel-mid
meaty
meat pie
meat hook
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Translations to be checked

Albanian: mish m
Arabic: ARchar|�ح� (laħm) m
Bosnian: meso n
Breton: kig m
Catalan: carn f
Chinese:
:Cantonese: � (juk6)
:Mandarin: � (ròu)
Croatian: meso n
Czech: maso n
Danish: kød
Dutch: vlees
Esperanto: viando
Estonian: liha#Estonian|liha
Finnish: liha#Finnish|liha
French: viande f
Frisian: fleis
German: Fleisch n
Greek: �ά�κα (sárka) f, κ�έα� (kréas) n
Hebrew: �שר (basar)
Hindi: ��श�त (gošt)
Hungarian: hús
Icelandic: kjöt
Inari Sami: piärgu
Indonesian: daging
Italian: carne f (1, 2)
Japanese: � (��, niku)
mid
Korean: 고기 (gogi)
Kuna: san
Kurdish: go�t,KUchar|گ�شت
Latin: carnis f
Latvian: gaļa f
Malayalam: മാ�സ� (maamsam)
Maltese: laħam
Northern Sami: biergu
Norwegian: kjøtt n
Persian: FAchar|گ�شت (gošt)
Pitjantjatjara: kuka
Polish: mi�so n
Portuguese: carne f
Russian: м��о (mjáso) n
Scottish Gaelic: feòil f
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: ме�о n
:Roman: meso#Serbian|meso n
Skolt Sami: vuä´ǯǯ
Slovene: meso n
Spanish: carne f
Swahili: nyama (noun 9/10)
Swedish: kött n
Telugu: మా�స� (maamsam)
Tetum: na'an
Tibetan: ཤ� (sha)
Urdu: URchar|گ�شت (gošt)
Vietnamese: th�t
Welsh: cig

Category:1000 English basic words
Category:Foods
Category:Meats

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