steak
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- //steɪk//
- //stɛːk//
Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
noun
- 1
Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
- 2
A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
venison steak, pork steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks
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.
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”). The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as speak and wreak.
verb
- 1
To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
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.
Forms
- plural
- steaks
- past tense
- steaked
- past participle
- steaked
- present participle
- steaking
- third person singular
- steaks
steak · Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
steal · To take illegally, or without the owner's permission,…stealing · The action of the verb to steal, theft.steals · The number of stolen bases by a baserunner.