| meat grinder | any action resulting in injury or destruction, the meat grinder of politics destroyed his reputation, allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder |
meatpacking
meat packing
meat-packing business | wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) |
butcher shop
meat market | a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold |
cleaver
meat cleaver
chopper | a butcher's knife having a large square blade |
| meat counter | counter where meats are displayed for sale |
| meat grinder | a mill for grinding meat |
| meat hook | a strong pointed hook from which the carcasses of animals are hung |
| meat house | a small house (on a farm) where meat is stored |
| meat safe | a safe for storing meat |
| meat thermometer | a thermometer that is inserted into the center of a roast (with the top away from the heat source), used to measure how well done the meat is |
| n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
| p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
| pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
smokehouse
meat house | a small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish |
| type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug
slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
body type
somatotype | a category of physique |
asthenic type
ectomorphy | slender, weak, and lightweight |
endomorphy
pyknic type | round, fat, and heavy |
athletic type
mesomorphy | muscular and big-boned |
blood group
blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A
type A
group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B
type B
group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB
type AB
group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O
type O
group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
Rh-positive blood type
Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
Rh-negative blood type
Rh-negative blood
Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
hooks
meat hooks
maulers | large strong hand (as of a fighter), wait till I get my hooks on him |
| meat and potatoes | the fundamental part, successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration |
| type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing, what type of sculpture do you prefer? |
architectural style
style of architecture
type of architecture | architecture as a kind of art form |
kernel
substance core
center
centre
essence
gist
heart heart and soul
inwardness marrow
meat
nub
pith
sum
nitty-gritty f a e a c | 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 |
type specimen
holotype | the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made |
| type | all of the tokens of the same symbol, the word `element' contains five different types of character |
| type | printed characters, small type is hard to read |
| type family | a complete set of type suitable for printing text |
roman roman type
roman letters
roman print | a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions |
canned meat
tinned meat | meat preserved in a can or tin |
| stew meat | tough meat that needs stewing to be edible |
breast
white meat | meat carved from the breast of a fowl |
| meat | the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
| dark meat | the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food |
| raw meat | uncooked meat |
| red meat | meat that is dark in color before cooking (as beef, venison, lamb, mutton) |
variety meat
organs | edible viscera of a butchered animal |
cut
cut of meat | a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass |
side
side of meat | a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food |
jerky
jerked meat
jerk | meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun |
| sausage meat | any meat that is minced and spiced and cooked as patties or used to fill sausages |
lunch meat
luncheon meat | any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold |