(n.) An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
(n.) The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
(n.) Applied colloquially to human flesh.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
Example Sentences:
(1) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(2) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(3) The slope of the thermal inactivation curve of enterotoxin A in beef bouillon (initial pH 6.2) was found to be approximately 27.8 C (50 F) with three different concentrations of toxin.
(4) More likely is that the constitutional court would use its recently beefed-up powers to deal with separatists if they were to assume powers that the constitution does not allow them.
(5) We compared the effects of meals containing the same amounts of either isolated soy or beef protein on acid secretion and serum gastrin concentration in normal humans.
(6) 1. cis-4-Decenoyl-CoA, an intermediate of linoleic acid catabolism, is degraded by a soluble enzyme fraction of beef liver mitochondria to octanoyl-CoA.
(7) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(8) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(9) The present study demonstrated that delayed administration of a marine lipid diet, 25% menhaden oil (MO) by weight, until after the onset of overt renal disease, also resulted in significant improvement in rates of mortality, proteinuria, and histologic evidence of glomerular injury, compared with control animals fed a diet that contained mostly saturated fatty acids, 25% beef tallow.
(10) administration of pig relaxin (greater than or equal to 3000 U) does not effectively alter periparturient characteristics of beef heifers.
(11) When the amounts of MeIQx measured in the urine collections were compared to the quantities of amine ingested in the fried beef, it was found that 1.8-4.9% of the oral dose was excreted unchanged in urine.
(12) Eight long-term (3 yr) ovariectomized beef cows were randomly assigned to one of two treatments: immunization against LHRH conjugated to human serum globulin (n = 4) and nonimmunization (control, n = 4).
(13) The commission is also proposing a new system of European borders and coastguards, beefing up the Warsaw-based Frontex agency to police the external frontiers.
(14) The role of zinc in beef heart cytochrome c oxidase has been studied by using x-ray absorption spectroscopy, zinc depletion and secondary structure predictions of subunits of beef heart cytochrome c oxidase.
(15) Ultrasonic attenuation in fresh and 5% formalin fixed beef skeletal muscle has been measured, as a continuous function of frequency, in the range 1-8 MHz, for muscle fibre orientations both parallel and normal to the direction of propagation.
(16) "Most of the grain produced on our farm ends up bound for export," said Jack McCormick, who raises beef cattle and grain with his father.
(17) However, the Kis of formycin A triphosphate for the leishmanial kinases (Ki 40-120 microM) were far less than that of the beef heart kinase (Ki 1,380 microM).
(18) A young woman with diabetes mellitus developed chronic urticaria after changing from isophane been insulin suspension to isophane beef-pork insulin suspension.
(19) The following systems were investigated as a function of temperature: sarcoplasmic reticulum ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3) complexed with 1-myristoyl-2-(14,14,14-trideuteriomyristoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC-d3) or 1,2-bis(16,16,16-trideuteriopalmitoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC-k6); human brain lipophilin complexed with DPPC-d6 or 1,2-bis(6,6-dideuteriopalmitoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC-6,6-d4); beef brain myelin proteolipid apoprotein (PLA) reconstituted with DMPC labeled as CD2 (or CD3) at one or more of positions 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 14 of the sn-2 chain.
(20) A survey of gastrointestinal nematodes in Georgia cattle was conducted from 1968 through 1973 from actual worm counts from viscera of 145 slaughtered beef cattle or from egg counts made from fecal samples from 3,273 beef and 100 dairy cattle.
Beefy
Definition:
(a.) Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Summerville hinted that Affleck would eventually make for a seriously beefy Batman .
(2) Corcoran, an athletic, beefy 6ft 2in, has been scorned, insulted, threatened and sprayed with a hose – manifestations of guilt, he said.
(3) Updated at 5.46pm BST 5.38pm BST 3rd over: England 6-0 (Cook 5, Robson 1) Beefy and Athers are discussing last night's dinner, which means we've been here all day.
(4) It’s the same hyper-sexualised imagery that feeds gay nightclub advertorials and community events: images of ripped studs and beefy bodies, a focus on aesthetic glory.
(5) A number of patients presenting with typical features of this disease, characterized in particular by a beefy-red exuberant appearance of the lesions, have been treated at Shongwe Hospital in Kangwane in the Eastern Transvaal.
(6) Its political cartoonist Stephff sketched bald and beefy Secret Service agents with frothing mouths and guns in hand , readily assaulting innocent waiters offering glasses of water to the president.
(7) In 86 episodes from 1999 to 2007, in HBO's hit series The Sopranos, the balding, beefy, middle-aged Gandolfini, as Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mafia boss, managed to transcend any stereotyping of Italian-Americans (although the charge was still made) by showing the flawed character's vulnerable side.
(8) Real Boxing One of the best-looking sports games on any mobile device, this sees you battling through a 30-fight career mode against 20 beefy boxers, while training your fighter up in between matches.
(9) 6.18pm BST 60 min: Huddlestone, after a beefy challenge, gets the first yellow card of the game.
(10) Obviously we check with the stump mike and dish out a hefty penalty if he fails to repeat what he actually said (a night out with Beefy, say, or a batting masterclass from Tuffers).
(11) Bumble is ex-Accrington Stanley, Beefy ex-Scunthorpe - so of course, Beefy immediately notes the superiority of his career.
(12) The gross appearance of the spleens was beefy red without tumor nodules.
(13) You may feel that describing your penis as Beefy McManstick or Blue-veined Jack Hammer or The Pink Oboe will add to your incredible sex life and who I am to say otherwise?
(14) Updated at 4.20pm BST 4.16pm BST 58th over: Sri Lanka 191-5 (Sangakkara 71, Chandimal 15) Beefy is happy with the variety of England's attack, but Strauss is not, citing only Plunkettas different.
(15) Thy Neighbor’s Wife, his beefy, heteronormative examination of sex, published in 1981 on the cusp of the Aids epidemic, was greeted skeptically during the reporting process and with jeers upon publication.
(16) Her beefy, mustachioed husband, Pascal, whom she met on a holiday to the Dordogne in 2007, sits by her side protectively, giving her leg the occasional supportive squeeze.
(17) Beefy, though, sees Jordan as a skidder and points out that the only batsman to get a score has had four chances.
(18) 10.31pm BST Pirates 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 1st The beefy Adams hits a weak puny ground ball, guess where?
(19) They quickly recorded 2009's Brand New Eyes, a beefy, slick rock album that solidified their place in the mainstream.