steak
//steɪk//
Forms
- Plural
- steaks
- present (v1)
- steak
- past (v2)
- steaked
- past participle (v3)
- steaked
- present participle
- steaking
- 3rd person singular
- steaks
Definitions
1.Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
- Do you want to have steak tonight?
2.A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
- Do you want to have steak tonight?
3.A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.
- Do you want to have steak tonight?
1.To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
- Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked. If they are to be steaked, they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4983
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (“roast; meat roasted on a stick”). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (“to roast”).