meat
part of speech
noun (meat — uncountable; meats for types)
meaning for a pupil
Meat is the flesh of animals, such as cows, pigs, sheep and chickens, eaten as food. tree →
sense in the lessons
In health and food, meat gives us protein, which helps build muscles; a balanced diet can include meat, fish, beans and eggs. In safety, raw meat can carry germs, so keep it away from other food, wash hands and chopping boards after touching it, and cook it all the way through (no pink chicken). In science, animals that eat mainly meat are carnivores. People who don't eat meat are vegetarians; vegans eat no animal products at all.
examples
- We had meat and vegetables for dinner. tree →
- Wash your hands after touching raw meat. tree →
- Make sure the chicken meat is cooked all the way through. tree →
- Lions are carnivores; they eat meat. tree →
- My sister doesn't eat meat; she's vegetarian. tree →
- Keep raw meat on the bottom shelf of the fridge. tree →
- Beef is meat from cows. tree →
- "Some wine and meat," she replied. tree →
note
Uncountable: «some meat», «a piece of meat», not «a meat». Homophone: «meet» (to come together with someone). Names differ from the animal: beef (cow), pork/ham/bacon (pig), lamb/mutton (sheep), venison (deer); chicken stays chicken.
In the corpora
- 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.
- Real cats are carnivores: they need meat, cannot live on pasta like Garfield, and cannot even taste sweet things.
- Charles Darwin wrote a whole book on insect-eating plants and tested sundews with tiny bits of meat and hair.
Trees and pragmatics
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