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(n)
In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
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(figurative) The central or innermost part of something; the core, the heart.
A small knob or lump.
(uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
(anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
The characteristic of being inward or directed towards the inside.
Physical matter; material.
The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
(originally US, colloquial, also attributively) The core or essence of something; the gist.
(countable) The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith.
A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
(uncountable) The meat from cattle or other bovines.
(chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
A cut of meat taken from the chest, especially from the section under the first five ribs.
The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.
Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
A chicken raised for meat.
(uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.
Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
(uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
The meat of a deer, especially one that was hunted in its own natural habitat.
(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
The act of hunting.
Any edible animal from sub-Saharan Africa's dense forest that is not traditionally regarded as game.
Anything edible.
An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
(countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.
The act by which something is roasted.
A fiery pain.
An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese) raised for food (meat, eggs, or both).
An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
(countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
The act of destroying.
A living thing, usually an animal, that is eaten by another living thing.
(physical) Matter, material.
The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
An administrative unit of government; office.
The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
A surname.
A city in the West Bank, Palestine, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus.
(adj)
(chemistry, dated, proscribed) Of a tactic diad, having structural units in identical orientation.
(uncountable) A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
A young sheep.
The meat of sheep used as food.
(uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
(uncountable) Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.
(uncountable) Cured meat that is ready to be eaten, especially pork.
A playful or competitive activity.
Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber.
(countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
(informal) A vegetable.
That is not meat, or unrelated to meat.
The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh.
(uncountable) (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.
Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat.
(US) A cut of beef from the lower part of the back, where the last ribs are (called rump in UK English).
A single piece of chitterlings (intestine used as food).
The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef.
The meat or flesh of a pig, used especially for food; pork.