Tra từ meat - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

meat [meat meats] BrE [miːt] NAmE [miːt] noun
1. uncountable, countable the flesh of an animal or a bird eaten as food; a particular type of this
•a piece/slice of meat
•horse meat (= from a horse)
•dog meat (= for a dog)
•meat-eating animals
• There's not much meat on this chop.
• (figurative, humorous)There's not much meat on her (= she is very thin).
see also ↑luncheon meat, ↑mincemeat, ↑red meat, ↑sausage meat, ↑white meat
2. uncountable ~ (of sth) the important or interesting part of sth
Syn: ↑substance
• This chapter contains the real meat of the writer's argument.
more at dead meat at ↑dead, one man's meat is another man's poison at ↑man _n.
Idiom: ↑meat and drink to somebody

Word Origin:
Old English mete ‘food’ or ‘article of food’ (as in sweetmeat), of Germanic origin.

Example Bank:
•Britain's meat consumption
•Do you eat meat?
•Fry the meat in a little olive oil.
•He eventually found employment as a meat cutter.
•I'm not a great meat eater.
•It was so cold, it was like a meat locker.
•She always buys the cheaper cuts of meat.
•Simmer the meat for 30 minutes until tender.
•That meat smells rotten.
•The animals do not hunt and rarely consume meat.
•The meat has gone off.
•These pies have a low meat content.
•Turn the meat frequently to brown it.
•a plate of cold meats
•chewing on the tough meat
•recipes for simple meat dishes