What's the difference between steak and streak?

Steak


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling; -- also extended to the meat of other large animals; as, venison steak; bear steak; pork steak; turtle steak.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
  • (2) He reportedly almost never went out, spending America's 4th of July holiday at home, and cooking steak dinners for one.
  • (3) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
  • (4) Does this count as campaigning?” “When was the last time you flipped a steak?” “What does it feel like to be in Iowa?” “Can you bring the reporters some meat?” “Are you running, Hillary,” one reporter shouted, finally, “from us?” Then Bill and Hillary disappeared around the corner; three quarters of the media scrum vanished, deflated.
  • (5) Steaks were later assigned to blocks of eight treatments and cooked to an internal temperature of 68 degrees C before six or seven participants evaluated steaks from each block.
  • (6) Steaks from steers implanted with Revalor were slightly less acceptable than steaks from unimplanted steers for several sensory attributes, but the difference in overall acceptability was minor and nonsignificant.
  • (7) Stimulation increased the tenderness of loin steaks as determined by both panel scores and shear values, and of bottom round steaks (shear-force values).
  • (8) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
  • (9) The pair were also shown enjoying post-exercise steaks and sipping tea in the Bocharov Ruchei state residence near Sochi.
  • (10) The remaining steaks were treated fresh; one-half were subjected to a 150 mM CaCl2 marinade for 48 h. Frozen steaks were thawed and subjected to the same treatment.
  • (11) He hopes to create thicker "cuts" of meat such as steaks, though this would require more tissue engineering expertise, namely the ability to grow channels – a bit like blood vessels – that can feed the centre of the growing steak with nutrients and water.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Downtown Clifton motel, Tucson Among recent openings are Batch Café & Bar , which majors on the surprising pairing of whiskey and doughnuts; Carriage House , which offers dim sum brunches and cooking classes by chef Janos Wilder; Elviras , an upscale Mexican (with the border so close, Tucson’s food is multicultural), and Charro Steak , a ranch-to-table grill with a Sonoran twist.
  • (13) I whine that I haven’t been able to successfully place an order, let alone indicate how i’d like my steak done.
  • (14) A single 5g dose corresponds to the creatine content of 1.1 kg of fresh, uncooked steak.
  • (15) Shortly after flipping a steak with Clinton, Ted Diehl was cornered by a handful of reporters.
  • (16) I savour the smell of the food stalls as I ride down Whitecross Street market at about 11am, inhaling successive wafts of roasting steak, baking flatbreads, frying onions, toasting cumin seeds, sizzling bacon, curries and chillies and pickles and melting cheese.
  • (17) Steak Burritos Skirt steak, a cheap cut over here, is a favoured piece of meat in Mexico, thanks to its rich flavour.
  • (18) A mixed amino acid solution was designed, which permitted a fairly close imitation of the arterial plasma pattern of the 21 amino acids that rise after ingestion of a 200-g porcine steak meal.
  • (19) Dam breed types differed in several traits, including marbling (P less than .05) and percentage of steak (P less than .10), roast (P less than .01), and bone (P less than .01).
  • (20) The pub's renowned food includes home-made cheese and onion, steak and kidney and beef and ale pies.

Streak


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
  • (n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.
  • (n.) A strake.
  • (n.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.
  • (n.) The rung or round of a ladder.
  • (v. t.) To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.
  • (v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
  • (2) Data from cases with myocardial bridges show that both fatty streaks and raised lesions are seldom observed in the region distal to myocardial bridge.
  • (3) Evx-1 RNA is first detected shortly before the onset of gastrulation in a region of ectoderm containing cells that will soon be found in the primitive streak.
  • (4) Gonadoblastoma is an unusual tumor that typically arises in a streak gonad or an abnormal testis of an individual having a Y chromosome.
  • (5) This study focuses on the expansion and maturation of the fatty streak in the aorta of Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipemic rabbits and comparably hypercholesterolemic fat-fed rabbits between 2 and 6 months duration of hypercholesterolemia.
  • (6) Fatty streaks were observed in 2nd decade involving only 7.5% of the total intimal surface and reaching to a maximum of 22.2% in the 3rd decade, followed by a gradual rise to 9.2% in 7th decade.
  • (7) Immunoreactivity in fatty streaks was located around collections of foam cells.
  • (8) The streaking phenomenon, as well as the tendency toward randomness, was discussed in terms of attentional anomalies.
  • (9) The high frequency of angioid streaks observed in patients with beta thalassemia and the severe complications observed in one patient render a thorough ophthalmoscopic examination and follow-up of such patients necessary for both early diagnosis and possible therapeutic intervention.
  • (10) On the back of some appalling results, including a six-game losing streak, the atmosphere at the game against Cardiff was toxic and the abuse intensely personal.
  • (11) As development proceeded during primitive streak stages, the visceral and parietal endoderm became positively stained.
  • (12) The mean survival period after angiography was 3.8 months, and the prognosis was not favorable in patients having "thread-and-streak" sign on angiography.
  • (13) A diet containing 0.3% cholesterol was given to male New Zealand rabbits for 16 weeks; this produced atherosclerotic lesions (fatty streaks) on 80% of the intimal surface of the thoracic aorta and on 45% of the intimal surface of the abdominal aorta.
  • (14) The area of highest density formed a nasal-temporal band suggestive of a visual streak.
  • (15) The horizontal streak of high rhodopsin levels is preferentially reduced in this retinopathy.
  • (16) Density distribution maps for neurons in the ganglion cell layer and the photoreceptor layer reveal the presence of a putative area centralis and a horizontal visual streak.
  • (17) Atherosclerotic lesions (mostly fatty streaks but some fibrous plaques) were present only in groups C and CL and were absent in groups L and N. The percentage of atherosclerotic intimal involvement was significantly greater in group CL than C (P less than 0.001).
  • (18) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
  • (19) Grossly visible fatty streaks and fibrous plaques were not found in any of the swine aorta.
  • (20) The cluster lies just posterior to the definitive primitive streak in the extraembryonic mesoderm, separated from the embryo by the amniotic fold.