Meat - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone (syn: kernel)
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (syn: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, nub, pith, substance, sum)
Extra examples
The restaurant serves a variety of meats.
The real meat of the book is found in its discussion of his economic plan.
The meat goes bad / spoils.
Within a fortnight the price of meats all over the country will be reduced.
There's not much meat in this argument.
You're too thin, you need some meat on your bones.
I gave up eating meat a few months ago.
There's no meat to their arguments.
We then got down to the real meat of the debate (=the main and most interesting part of it).
One man's meat is another man's poison. посл.
The meat was cooked over an open fire.
The meat was roasted over an open fire.
The meat can be cooked several ways.
The meat is so tender you can cut it with a fork.
Milk, meat, and other animal products
Word forms
singular: meat
plural: meats
Please, register on our website at registration page. After registration you can log in and use that feature.
