English Dictionary

beef

/bif/

noun

(in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat). / (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.

I love to eat beef burgers.

意味（1）

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

lean finely textured beef

意味（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.

意味（3）

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

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

意味（4）

(uncountable) Bovine animals.

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

意味（5）

(now chiefly Canada, US, countable, now uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.

Do you want to raise beeves?

意味（6）

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

He's got beef over what you said.

意味（7）

(Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.

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.

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.