(n.) A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.
Example Sentences:
(1) After comparing lots C and S, results indicated that beefsteaks in the last group were heavier (2.45 vs. 2.33 kg), with more lipids (0.47 vs. 0.36 kg) and major fat veined proportion (1.40 vs. 1.25%).
(2) Aflatoxins were absent in fresh meat, canned meat, salami, beefsteak and minced meat.
(3) Costilla (ribs), arrachera (beefsteak), chorizo, chicken – they've got it all here.
(4) Gastric acid secretion stimulated by a normally eaten beefsteak meal was measured for 4 h in 16 patients with duodenal ulcer disease (DU), in 9 patients with gastric ulcer disease (GU), and in 14 controls by intragastric titration with bicarbonate to a constant pH 5.5.
(5) Control or ulcer-operated dogs were prepared with chronic duodenal fistulas from which chyme was collected after a standard meal of beefsteak + radioliver + water.
(6) One piece of beefsteak weighing 190 g, contained mutagenic activity equivalent to that of 855 micrograns benzo(a)pyrene.
(7) Sampson himself was no longer an inside-outsider, but a member of the establishment, lunching at the Beefsteak Club, corresponding with all and sundry, from Ted Heath to John Cleese.
(8) Samples of beefsteak, beef liver, haddock, and mushrooms were cooked by two methods: boiling and broiling.
(9) The diagnosis was established by the beefsteak-barium meal.
(10) The smoke condensate obtained during charcoal broiling of beefsteak was far less mutagenic than that of fish, with or without metabolic activation.
(11) You just have to get through it, like an editor of The Apprentice wading through countless hours of drivel about beefsteaks and neckties.
(12) Like the French chef who can make beefsteak out of a leather glove, Alistair Darling has done well with his Better Together campaign.
(13) One brand of "beefsteak" pie was found to actually be a mixture of mutton and beef.
(14) Healthy male volunteers consumed at noon, hot test meals with four different carbohydrate:fat ratios varying between 2.64 and 0.50, and composed of fried beefsteak, mashed potatoes, French beans, and a dessert of custard with mashed peaches.
(15) Compared to controls, infections in cases were significantly associated with farm work, flower production, or food industry, consumption of lamb meat or improperly heated beefsteak, cat ownership.
Prattle
Definition:
(v. i.) To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
(v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
(n.) Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.
Example Sentences:
(1) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
(2) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
(3) Comparisons between present-day China and the soulless, dreary totalitarian socialist state immortalised in Orwell's masterpiece are difficult to sustain after seeing clutch after clutch of Chinese teenagers, dressed in the latest quasi-Japanophile fashion, walk down a mobbed Beijing pedestrian shopping arcade nibbling at bouquets of candy floss and prattling on as if the phrase "commodity fetishism" had never crossed their young lips.
(4) The opening prattle this week is all about the seven deadly sins.
(5) I think they're about to escort me from the building for prattling on in an unGuardian manner.
(6) Melancholia itself would have been talking point enough without Von Trier's prattling.
(7) These days depression is the stuff of postprandial dinner-party prattle, but Plath explored the condition with no sense of its being a "condition" that others shared, no established therapeutic vocabulary, and no Prozac.
(8) The South Americans have played 25 games, and are guaranteed to play two more including tomorrow's match • Three of Diego Forlán's four goals in World Cup finals history have come from outside the box 7:10pm: As ITV's panel prattling on about how surprising it is to see harmony in the Dutch camp - exagerrating the divisions of the past and reinforcing the view that English society remains stubbornly anti-intellectual (and anti-male knitting), afraid of anyone who does not fear to speak his mind - let's see what's happening in Uruguay.
(9) Anyway, I won't prattle on for there is more live action to be found: San Jose Earthquakes vs LA Galaxy is about to kick off.
(10) Or it could be that the Sun loves me when I'm a prattling, giggling, Essex boy "Shagger of the Year", when I'm in my proper place, beneath vacuous headlines, herding their flock towards dumb lingo and crap bingo, when I'm being cheeky on MTV or even unwisely invading answerphones, in a way that many would argue, is less offensive than the manner that they are alleged to have done.
(11) Inexperienced MPs who prattle on about deeper UK involvement in Syria don’t yet grasp how merely symbolic much of it is nowadays.
(12) When I hear him prattle on inanely I can imagine how Neil Lennon felt when the Geordie dullard kicked him in the head."
(13) 2.30pm BST If you'd like to see me, Ian Prior, Barry Glendenning and Owen Gibson prattling on in front of a camera about Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement, then you're in luck!
(14) The forced cheerfulness of Nicholson's earlier scenes with the hotel manager are a sharp contrast to the sense of anger and tension as he drives and listens to his wife and son prattle on.