Word Finder - beef

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The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine.

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I love eating beef.

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(plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)

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He's got a beef with everyone in the room.

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To complain.

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To add weight or strength to; to beef up.

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To fart; break wind.

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Ugh, who just beefed in here?

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To feud or hold a grudge against.

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Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.

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To cry

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David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off

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To fail or mess up.

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I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.

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Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.

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We bought three beef calves this morning.

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Producing or known for raising lots of beef.

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beef country

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Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.

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beef stew

He nearly dropped the plate of roast beef.

Minas Geraes produces cheese, butter and milk, as well as beef cattle for neighbouring cities.

Her beef was with Dulce - and maybe Alex.

The rapid development of the foreign trade of the republic since 1881 is due to settled internal conditions and to the prime necessity to the commercial world of many Argentine products, such as beef, mutton, hides, wool, wheat and Indian corn.

The main product is the refined oil, which is used for a great number of purposes, such as a substitute for olive oil, mixed with beef products for preparation of compound lard, which is estimated to consume one-third of cotton seed oil produced in the States.

The breeding of cattle, adapted for the production of prime beef and of dairy cows for the production of milk, butter and cheese, has received much attention.

The increase in the herds has caused the owners of saladero establishments in Argentina and Uruguay to try the working of factories in Paraguay for the preparation of tasajo (jerked beef) and the manufacture of extract of meat.

If you live outside Alberta, finding organic Alberta beef may be a bit more difficult.

His taste in cookery, formed in subterranean ordinaries and a la mode beef shops, was far from delicate.

To be able to tell people scotch beef is back is enough.

The first of these is prevalent in countries where much and imperfectly cooked beef is eaten, and where cattle in their turn are exposed to the infection of the tapeworm ova.

Measly beef (that infected with the Cysticercus bovis) is easily recognized.

The development of alfalfa cultivation is extending the area of cattle-breeding somewhat and is improving the quality of the beef Livestock.

The packing of pork and beef formerly centred in Boston,.

A dungeon bears the nickname of "Wallace's Beef Barrel."

A considerable trade has been established in the exportation of dressed beef in cold storage, and also in the exportation of meat and other foods in hermetically sealed receptacles.

For beef, shorthorns, Herefords, Gallo ways and AberdeenAngus cattle are bred largely, whilst for dairying purposes, shorthorns, Ayrshires, Jerseys, Guernseys and Holstein-Friesians prevail.

Rio is also a distributing centre in the coasting trade, and many imported products, such as jerked beef (came secca), hay, flour, wines, &c., appear among the coastwise exports, as well as domestic manufactures.

The imports include wheat, flour, Indian corn, jerked beef (carne secca), lard, bacon, wines and liquors, butter, cheese, conserves of all kinds, coal, cotton, woollen, linen and silk textiles, boots and shoes, earthenand glasswares, railway material, machinery, furniture, building material, including pine lumber, drugs and chemicals, and hardware.

Boone is an important coal centre; bricks and tiles are manufactured from the clay obtained near by; there is a packing plant for the manufacture of beef and pork products; and from the rich farming section by which the city is surrounded come large quantities of grain, some of which is milled here, and live-stock.

Jerked beef (pasdirma) is also prepared in large quantities for winter use.

Pelotas is the centre of the xarque or carne secca (jerked beef) industry of Rio Grande do Sul.

Other detached tracts cover a considerable space in Annandale, one of them ascending the deep defile, known as the Devil's Beef Tub, at the head of that valley.

The leading imports are grains, flour, lard and various other foodstuffs, coal, lumber, petroleum and machinery, all mainly from the United States; wines and olive oil from Spain; jerked beef from South America; fabrics and other staples from varied sources.

Unlike the modern Hindus, the Aryans of the Veda ate beef, used a fermented liquor or beer made from the soma plant, and offered the same strong meat and drink to their gods.

When the Parsis were first admitted into India, certain conditions were imposed upon them by the Hindus; among others they were not to eat beef, and they were to follow the Hindu custom of wearing a top-knot of hair.

The exports consist chiefly of livestock, jerked beef, hides, wool, and other animal products, wheat, flour, corn, linseed, barley, hay, tobacco, sealskins, fruit, vegetables, and some minor products.

The neat cattle, which are of Australian and Indian origin, are raised chiefly for beef, their hides and their horns; about nine-tenths of them were destroyed by the rinderpest and the war at the close of the 19th century.

The foreign commerce of the Philippines consists chiefly in the exportation of Manila hemp, dried coco-nut meat (copra), sugar and tobacco, both in the leaf and in cigars and cigarettes; and in the importation of cotton goods, rice, wheat-flour, fresh beef, boots and shoes, iron and steel, illuminating oil, liquors, paper and paper goods.

There are castes whose touch defiles the twice-born, but who do not commit the crowning enormity of eating beef.

Several generations ago they gave up eating beef, and they are now completely Hinduized, except in a few remote recesses of Assam.

There is still a considerable export of cattle, hides and skins, but no effort is made to develop the production of jerked beef on a large scale.

In some cases of diarrhoea an entirely milk diet has to be prescribed, and in the diarrhoea of children it is sometimes necessary to alternate a diet of barley water with one of beef juice or white of egg and water, or to give whey instead of milk.

The socalled "Salisbury" cure consists of living entirely upon minced beef and hot water.

The Jesuit founders of the Mojos missions took cattle with them when they entered that region to labour among the Indians, with the result that the Mojos and Chiquitos llanos were soon well stocked, and have since afforded an unfailing supply of beef for the neighbouring inland markets.

Apart from the cattle driven into the mining districts for consumption, a number of saladeros are employed in preparing (usually salting and sun-drying) beef for the home markets.

Thus of samples of meat bought in Prague and kept in a cool room for about two days, luminosity was present in 52% of the samples in the case of beef, 50% for veal, and 39% for liver.

If the meat was treated previously with a 3% salt solution, 89% of the samples of beef and 65% of the samples of horseflesh were found to exhibit this phenomenon.

The dark purple spar, called by the workmen "bull beef," may be changed, by heat, to a rich amethystine tint.

Beef and mutton are rarely touched, and in some districts pork is only eaten on St Hilary's day (the 10th of December, O.S.).

Their funeral mourning consists of abstaining from drink and eating raw beef, and they use a wooden log for a coffin.

At the small towns along the river it is nearly impossible to obtain beef, vegetables, or fruit of any sort, and the inhabitants depend largely upon river fish, mandioc, and canned goods for their subsistence."

Some potatoes, turnips and beans are grown upon the farms; but the corned beef, bacon and groceries come from the cities.

Coleman of Glasgow, and in the early part of 1879 one of his machines was fitted on board the Anchor liner " Circassia," which successfully brought a cargo of chilled beef from America-the first imported by the aid of refrigerating machinery, ice having been previously used.

No one breed dominated this year's May beef sales at Borderway, writes auctioneer David Dickinson.

Have the beef bourguignon, and pay extra for a side order of potatoes au gratin.

There is more of a choice on the European menu with duck, beef, salmon, risotto, prawns and sea bass.

Cut a cold boiled beef into strips, add six radishes, two hard-boiled eggs chopped up, and one small sliced cucumber.

Oh, also i have found a corned beef which doesn''t contain milk or soya.

But much of the continuing imported beef goes into the catering industry at the bottom end - particularly burgers.