steak
Other forms: steaks
If you order steak at a restaurant, you'll probably be served a thick piece of cooked meat.
Although most people use the noun steak to mean a slice of grilled or broiled beef, it can be used to talk about any kind of meat or fish. Many people like to cook tuna steaks on the grill or order a medium-rare T-bone steak at a restaurant. Since the fifteenth century, steak has meant "thick slice of meat," from the Old Norse root word steik, "roast meat."
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a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fishtypes:fish steakcross-section slice of a large fishbeefsteaka beef steak usually cooked by broilingflank steaka cut of beef from the flank of the animalminute steaka thin steak that can be cooked quicklysirloin steaka cut of beef from the sirloinporterhouse, porterhouse steaklarge steak from the thick end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and large piece of tenderloinT-bone steaksmall steak from the thin end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and small piece of tenderloinround steaka lean cut of beef from between the rump and the shankrump steaka steak cut from the rumpflitchfish steak usually cut from a halibuttype of:
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Even if we don't know much Greek or Latin, we know that much of the English we speak is derived from those two languages. English has common words with roots in many different languages, though, and one of the most interesting is Old Norse, which dates from the 8th Century. Old Norse speakers colonized England centuries ago and these 10 words, and many more, are part of their legacy to modern-day speakers of English.