Definition of meat

"meat" in the noun sense

1. meat

the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food

2. kernel, meat

the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone

"black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell"

3. kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"

"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"

"the nub of the story"

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Quotations for meat

After meat, mustard. [ Proverb ]

Much meat, much malady. [ Proverb ]

Much meat, much disease. [ Proverb ]

Quick at meat quick at work. [ Proverb ]

The cheap buyer takes bad meat. [ Proverb ]

They that have no other meat
Bread and butter are glad to eat. [ Proverb ]

Meat is much, but malice is more. [ Proverb ]

A hungry man smells meat afar off. [ Proverb ]

The poorest meat requires some dress. [ Proverb ]

Meat and mattins hinder not a journey. [ Proverb ]

Hunger was the best seasoning for meat. [ Cicero ]

Whoe'er has gone thro' London street,
Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,
And how he keeps
Gloating upon a sheep's
Or bullock's personals, as if his own;
How he admires his halves
And quarters - and his calves,
As if in truth upon his own legs grown. [ Hood ]

God never sends mouths but he sends meat. [ Proverb ]

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. [ Proverb ]

To feed were best at home;
From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
Meeting were bare without it. [ William Shakespeare ]

He loves roast meat well that licks the spit. [ Proverb ]

All meat is not the same in every man's mouth. [ Proverb ]

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat. [ Tusser ]

Brutus and Caesar: what should be in Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? [ William Shakespeare ]

He that eats most porridge shall have most meat. [ Proverb ]

You cannot fare well but you must cry roast-meat. [ Proverb ]

The fox praises the meat out of the crow's mouth. [ Proverb ]

Honest is the cat when the meat is upon the hook. [ Proverb ]

Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You are in the roast-meat, while we are in the sod. [ Proverb ]

That which is one man's meat is another man's poison. [ Proverb ]

He will spend a whole year's rent at one meal's meat. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A bellyful is a bellyful, whether it be meat or drink. [ Proverb ]

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. [ William Shakespeare ]

When you have given me roast meat you beat me with the spit. [ Proverb ]

Wit without wisdom, cuts other men's meat and its own fingers. [ Proverb ]

A covetous man is a dog in a wheel, that roasts meat for others. [ Proverb ]

Though the sauce be good, yet you need not forsake the meat for it. [ Proverb ]

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. [ William Shakespeare ]

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. [ Proverb ]

Roast meat at three fires; as soon as you've basted one, another's burnin'. [ George Eliot ]

Jealousy - it is a green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on. [ William Shakespeare ]

If the poor man cannot always get meat, the rich man cannot always digest it. [ Henry Giles ]

Some women need much adorning, as some meat needs much seasoning to incite appetite. [ Rochebrune ]

He that is manned with boys and horsed with colts, shall have his meat eaten and his work undone. [ Proverb ]

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. [ Bishop Horne ]

As wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. [ Bacon ]

Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but they have lived and died poor, that made them their meat. [ Fuller ]

Music would not be unexpedient after meat to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction, and send their minds back to study in good tune. [ Milton ]

Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content. [ Izaak Walton ]

Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink: but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system. [ Thackeray ]

meat in Scrabble®

The word meat is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters meat:

TEAM
(27)
MEAT
(27)
MATE
(27)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word meat

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In meat

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meat in Words With Friends™

The word meat is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters meat:

TEAM
(45)
MATE
(45)
MEAT
(45)
 

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In meat

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Word Growth involving meat

Shorter words in meat

at eat

me

Longer words containing meat

bushmeat bushmeats

crabmeat crabmeats

deermeat

duckmeat duckmeats

horsemeat horsemeats

intrameatal

lunchmeat lunchmeats

meataxe meataxes

meatball meatballs

meatcutter meatcutters

meateater meateaters

meateating

meathead meatheads

meathook meathooks

meatier

meatiest

meatily

meatiness

meatless

meatloaf

meatloaves

meatotomies

meatotomy

meatpacker meatpackers

meatpacking meatpackings

meatpie meatpies

meats bushmeats

meats crabmeats

meats duckmeats

meats horsemeats

meats lunchmeats

meats mincedmeats

meats mincemeats

meats nutmeats

meats sweetmeats

meatus

meaty nonmeaty

mincedmeat mincedmeats

mincemeat mincemeats

nonmeat nonmeaty

nutmeat nutmeats

permeate interpermeate interpermeated

permeate interpermeate interpermeates

permeate permeated interpermeated

permeate permeates interpermeates

permeating interpermeating

permeation permeations

permeative

permeator permeators

sweetmeat sweetmeats

wormeaten