meatとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: mēt, IPA^(key): /miːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mit/
• 韻: -iːt
• 異形同音異義語: meet, mete

名詞

meat (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 meats)

1. (uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. [from 14th c.]

   A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.

   The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.

   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 144:

     In many parts of the world, shark meat is an acceptable and desirable form of protein.

   • 2010 October 19, Andy Atkins, “Debate on meat-eating does not cut the mustard”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.

2. (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. [from 16th c.]

   The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.

3. (now archaic, dialectal) Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. [from 8th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew, XXV:

     I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat.

   • 1623, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens:

     Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes […].

   • 1879, Silas Hocking, Her Benny

     As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat.

   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, 2007, p.13:

     The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference […].

4. (now まれに) A type of food, a dish. [from 9th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter lxj, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     And thenne he blewe his horne that the maronners had yeuen hym / And whanne they within the Castel herd that horne / they put forthe many knyghtes and there they stode vpon the walles / and said with one voys / welcome be ye to this castel / […] / and sire Palomydes entred in to the castel / And within a whyle he was serued with many dyuerse metes

5. (archaic) A meal. [from 9th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew, ch. 8:

     And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.

6. (obsolete) Meal; flour.
7. (uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc. [from 15th c.]

   The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.

   • 1954, Cothburn O'Neal, The Dark Lady (page 12)

     She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.

8. (slang) A penis. [from 16th c.]
   • 1993, Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, page 538

     He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.

   • 2006 John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big, page 54

     Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.

   • 2011, Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys, page 41

     Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,

9. (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something. [from 16th c.]

   We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.

   • 1577, Gerald Eades Bentley, The Arte of Angling

     […] it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.

10. (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.). [from 20th c.]

    He hit it right on the meat of the bat.

11. (slang) A meathead.

    Throw it in here, meat.

12. (豪州用法 Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
    • 1949, Oceania, Vol.XX

      When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"

    • 1973, M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma

      Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."

    • 1977, A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity:

      Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat" (totem) of another group.

    • 1992, P. Taylor, Tell it Like it Is:

      Our family […] usually married the red kangaroo "meat".

    • 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies

      That’s a beautiful goanna. […]. He’s my meat, can’t eat him.

使用する際の注意点

• The meaning "flesh of an animal used as food" is often understood to exclude fish and other seafood. For example, the rules for abstaining from meat in the Roman Catholic Church do not extend to fish; likewise, some people who consider themselves vegetarians also eat fish (though the more precise term for such a person is pescetarian).
• Traditionally, this meaning sometimes also excluded poultry.

同意語

• (animal flesh used as food): flesh; See also Thesaurus:meat
• (penis): see Thesaurus:penis
• (best または most substantial part of something): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist

反意語

• drink

派生語

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: meti