meat

«meat» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: food — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

food

part of speech

noun (meat, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

Food of any kind. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "meat" means the flesh of animals. In the first sentence it means food in general, which is an old sense. The second and third sentences use the modern sense.

examples

• And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house: 'Bring the men into the house, and kill the beasts, and prepare the meat; for the men shall dine with me at noon.' (Torah GEN.43.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Some wine and meat," she replied. (Grimm's Fairy Stories) tree →
• "What are you waiting for, dog's-meat?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →

primary record

meat

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 318 (Torah 1, tales 317, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 20; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 0.1); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• She hath prepared her meat, she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
• If the men of my tent said not: 'Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?'
• In many countries it is against the law to feed pigs kitchen leftovers, because meat scraps can spread serious pig diseases.
• Red foxes live on more continents than any other wild meat-eating mammal, and many live in cities such as London.
• Tasmanian devils are the biggest living meat-eating marsupials and scavenge as well as hunt.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «meat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.