Meat Means Food

[Guest guest]

Look how confusing it is. The root of meat means only food, anything we

eat for nourishment. Technically, even Vegans are meat eaters.

 

However, common usage now restricts meat to flesh. Note how the

definitions from different sources vary, and move toward refining things?

 

Flesh is perhaps a better way of putting it.

 

from www.dictionary.com

 

5 entries found for meat.

meat    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (mt)

n.

 

1. The edible flesh of animals, especially that of mammals as opposed to

that of fish or poultry.

2. The edible part, as of a piece of fruit or a nut.

3. The essence, substance, or gist: the meat of the editorial.

4. Slang. Something that one enjoys or excels in; a forte: Tennis is his

meat.

5. Nourishment; food: “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink” (Edna

St. Vincent Millay).

6. Vulgar Slang.

a. The human body regarded as an object of sexual desire.

b. The genitals.

 

 

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[Middle English mete, from Old English, food.]

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth

Edition

2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

 

 

meat

 

\Meat\, n. [OE. mete, AS. mete; akin to OS. mat, meti, D. met hashed meat,

G. mettwurst sausage, OHG. maz food, Icel. matr, Sw. mat, Dan. mad, Goth.

mats. Cf. Mast fruit, Mush.] 1. Food, in general; anything eaten for

nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything;

as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. --Chaucer.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to

you it shall be for meat. --Gen. i. 29.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. --Gen. ix. 3.

2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast

of bread and fruit without meat.

3. Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Meat biscuit. See under Biscuit.

Meat earth (Mining), vegetable mold. --Raymond.

Meat fly. (Zo[ " o]l.) See Flesh fly, under Flesh.

Meat offering (Script.), an offering of food, esp. of a cake made of flour

with salt and oil.

To go to meat, to go to a meal. [Obs.]

To sit at meat, to sit at the table in taking food.

 

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

 

meat

 

\Meat\, v. t. To supply with food. [Obs.] --Tusser.

His shield well lined, his horses meated well. --Chapman.

 

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

 

meat

 

n 1: the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as

food 2: the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or

fruit stone: " black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell "

[syn: kernel] 3: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some

idea or experience: " the gist of the prosecutor's argument " ; " the nub of

the story " [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart,

inwardness, marrow, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty]

 

Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

 

 

On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 11:01 AM, (AT) (DOT)

com wrote:

 

> Message: 7

> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 04:52:00 -0000

> " Sheryl " <ssarndt

> Re: the difference

>

> Actually, should we blame the Catholic church for convincing us that

> fish is not really meat and acceptable to eat on Fridays???????? I

> think that is part of where it all started.

>

>

" There's more to being a minister than not caring about people. "

--The Reverend Lovejoy on THE SIMPSONS

[Guest guest]

>>>Flesh is perhaps a better way of putting it.

 

 

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Not necessarily.......I have heard " flesh " used when referring to non-

animal food, just like " meat " is used that way. [see # 3]

 

flesh n.

* 1.

* The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate, covering the

bones and consisting mainly of skeletal muscle and fat.

* The surface or skin of the human body.

* 2. The meat of animals as distinguished from the edible tissue of

fish or fowl.

* 3. Botany. The pulpy, usually edible part of a fruit or vegetable.

* 4. Excess fatty tissue; plumpness.

* The body as opposed to the mind or soul.

* The physical or carnal nature of humankind.

* Sensual appetites.

* 5. Humankind in general; humanity.

* 6. One's family; kin.

* 7. Substance; reality: “The maritime strategy has an all but

unstoppable institutional momentum behind it... that has given

force and flesh to the theory” (Jack Beatty).

 

 

 

 

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