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発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bif/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /biːf/
• 韻: -iːf

名詞

beef (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 beef または beefs または beeves)

A chunk of beef (sense 1)

2. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.

   Synonyms: cowflesh, oxflesh

   Hyponym: veal

   I love eating beef.

   1. (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).

      lean finely textured beef

      boneless lean beef trimmings

   2. (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.

      Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.

      We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.

   3. (figuratively, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.

      Synonym: meat

      The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.

3. (uncountable) Bovine animals.
   • 2010 October 21, “Who's the real McCoy? Abilene's Joseph in 8 Wonders contest”, in Abilene Recorder Chronicle:

     However, there were millions of head of beef roaming the plains of Texas.

4. (now chiefly Canada, 米国用法, countable, now uncommon, 複数形 beeves) A bovine (cow または bull) being raised for its meat.

   Do you want to raise beeves?

   • 1791, Homer; W[illiam] Cowper, transl., “[The Iliad.] Book XV.”, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 779243096, lines 398–401, page 394:

     As when two lions in the ſtill dark night / An herd of beeves ſcatter or num'rous flock / Suddenly, in the abſence of the guard, / So fled the heartleſs Greeks, […]

   • 1903 March, Henry Mason Baum, Frederick Bennett Wright, George Frederick Wright, Records of the Past, volume II, part III, page 87, translating the laws of Hammurabi:

     263. If he [one to whom a beef or sheep is loaned] ruins the beef or sheep that was loaned him, he is to return to the owner a beef for a beef and a sheep for a sheep.

   • 1920–1930, Photo in the North Dakota State Museum:

     Cutting out a Beef for branding

   • 2012, quoting Bart Reilly, “Beef”, in Ontario Dialects Project‎^[2], Toronto: University of Toronto, retrieved July 5, 2022:

     I remember I killed a beef one time by myself.

5. (slang, uncountable or countable, 複数形 beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something または someone); lack of faith or trust (in something または someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)

   He's got beef over what you said.

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

   Remember what happened last fall? That's his beef with me.

   • 1997, “Going Back to Cali”, in Life After Death, performed by The Notorious B.I.G.:

     All I got is beef with those that violate me / I shall annihilate thee

6. (Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
   • 1895, Geological Survey of Great Britain, The Jurassic Rocks of Britain: Pub. by Order of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, page 243:

     Clays, shales, sands, red and green marls, and alum shale, with occasional layers of "beef" (fibrous carbonate of lime) […] Chief "Beef" Beds, Dark (alum) shales with "beef" and selenite, beds of limestone, and layers of perished shells. Cyrena and Cyrides.
     Corbula Beds. Layers of shelly limestone, shale, alum shale, and marl, with "beef" and selenite.

   • 1993, Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, volume 114-115, page 190:

     Medium-grey paper shales with beef.

   • 2007 May 10, Robin McInnes; Jenny Jakeways; Helen Fairbank; Emma Mathie, Landslides and Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions: Proceedings of the International Conference on Landslides and Climate Change, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, UK, 21-24 May 2007, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 421:

     […] beds of limestone and thin layers of 'beef' (fibrous calcite) […]

派生語

関連する語

• bovine

参考

• beefwood

動詞

beef (三人称単数 現在形 beefs, 現在分詞 beefing, 過去形および過去分詞形 beefed)

1. (intransitive) To complain.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     “Don't you like the Red Room?” “The Red Room!” I gathered from his manner that he had not come to beef about his sleeping accommodation.

2. (transitive) To add weight or strength to.

   Synonym: beef up

   • 1969, Hot Rod (volume 22, page 59)

     First off, the axle housing was beefed by welding areas where extreme loading is evident (black marked areas).

3. (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.

   Ugh, who just beefed in here?

4. (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.

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

5. (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.

   David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off.

6. (transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.

   I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.

派生語

• beef up
• beef out

形容詞

beef (not comparable)

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

   We bought three beef calves this morning.

2. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.

   beef farms

   beef country

3. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.

   beef stew

4. (slang) Beefy; powerful; robust.

   Wow, your audio setup is beef!

関連する語

• beefy

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