Meatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 mete, from 古期英語 mete (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati, from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”).

発音

• enPR: mēt, IPA: /miːt/
• (General American) IPA: /mit/
• (Dublin) IPA: /miːʔ/, /miːh/
• 韻: -iːt
• 異形同音異義語: meet, mete

名詞

meat (countable and uncountable, plural meats)

1. (uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat). [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: flesh; see also Thesaurus:meat

   Hypernym: food

   Antonym: drink

   A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.

   The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.

   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 144:

     In many parts of the world, shark meat is an acceptable and desirable form of protein.

   • 2010 October 19, Andy Atkins, “Debate on meat-eating does not cut the mustard”, in The Guardian‎:

     While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.

2. (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. [from 16th c.]

   The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.

   • 2023, Seamus Bruner, Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life:

     It should come as no surprise that while the peasants are expected to eat fermented fungi, lab-grown meats and maggot milkshakes, the Controligarchs — with their private chefs — have no intention of doing the same.

   • 2024 August 20, Madeline Holcombe, “There is a link between the meat you eat and a chronic disease, according to new research”, in CNN‎:

     Regularly eating red and processed meats in particular is associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, according to an analysis of data from 31 study cohorts published Tuesday in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

3. (now archaic, dialectal) Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. [from 8th c.]
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:

     I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 232:

     And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat.

   • c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes […].

   • 1879, Silas Hocking, Her Benny:

     As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat.

   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 13:

     The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference […].

4. (now rare) A type of food, a dish. [from 9th c.]
5. (archaic) A meal. [from 9th c.]
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew viij:

     And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.

6. (obsolete) Meal; flour.
7. (uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc. [from 15th c.]

   The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.

   • 1954, Cothburn O'Neal, The Dark Lady, page 12:

     She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.

8. (slang, vulgar) A penis. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

   • 1993, Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, page 538:

     He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.

   • 2006, John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big, page 54:

     Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.

   • 2011, Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys, page 41:

     Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,

9. (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: crux, gist; see also Thesaurus:gist

   • 1577, Gerald Eades Bentley, The Arte of Angling:

     […] it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.

   • 2007, Robert Kenneth Jones, The Shudder Pulps, page 6:

     The editor called the new "novels" book-lengthers without the trivialities and slow development of the usual novel. "They have all the plot complications, meat and excitement that readers demand," he stated.

10. (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.). [from 20th c.]

    He hit it right on the meat of the bat.

11. (slang) A meathead.

    Throw it in here, meat.

12. (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
    • 1949, Vol.XX, Oceania:

      When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"

    • 1973, M. Fennel, A. Grey, Nucoorilma:

      Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."

    • 1977, A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity:

      Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat" (totem) of another group.

    • 1992, P. Taylor, Tell it Like it Is:

      Our family […] usually married the red kangaroo "meat".

    • 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies

      That’s a beautiful goanna. […]. He’s my meat, can’t eat him.

使用する際の注意点

• The sense "flesh of an animal used as food" is often understood to exclude fish and other seafood. The exclusion of poultry from the category of meat has become outdated.

派生語

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: meti

アナグラム

• maté, META, team, mate, Tame, meta, ATEM, Meta, meta-, AEMT, Atem, -mate, tame, Team, Tema

動詞

meat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of meō