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Roast Beef

Definition: Roast Beef

Roast Beef

Noun

1. Cut of beef suitable for roasting.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Roast Beef

Synonym: beef roast (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Roast Beef

English words defined with "roast beef": roast beef plantYorkshire pudding. (references)
Specialty definitions using "roast beef": COOK, BARBECUE, COOK, LARDERgarde manger. (references)

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Modern Usage: Roast Beef

DomainUsage

Screenplays

This little piddy had roast beef, and this little piddy had none. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price)

We're having roast beef. (Leave It to Beaver; writing credit: Katherine Albert; Joe Connelly)

Some chicken, roast beef, a pizza (SpongeBob SquarePants; writing credit: Leonardo Fasoli; Patrizia Fassio)

Clever

What's the difference between roast beef and pea soup? Anyone can roast beef. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Roast Beef

DomainTitle

Books

  • Roast Beef in April an Autobiographical Sketch of the '30's & '40's (reference)

  • Roast Beef Medium; The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney (Short Story Index Reprint Series) (reference)

  • Roast Beef, Medium (reference)

  • Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney (reference)

  • Wordsworth and the Roast Beef Romance (Wordsworth) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Roast Beef

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Roast Beef

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A dinner is set up on black, gold-rimmed dishes on a black tabletop. There is a mug, a bowl of cut strawberries, and a plate full of green beans, small potatoes and roast beef. A dark multicolored napkin with gold thread is curved around the plate. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Roast Beef

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

IITYWYBAD? Down at one end the cooking plates, pots of stew, potatoes, pot roast, roast beef, gray roast pork waiting to be sliced.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Roast Beef

Expression using "roast beef": roast beef plant. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Roast Beef

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

roast beef recipe

241

roast beef

205

roast beef sandwich

21

leftover roast beef recipe

14

roast beef hash

7

leftover roast beef

5

roast beef of old england

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Roast Beef

Language Translations for "roast beef"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

печено говеждо. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

paahtopaisti (rump), naudanpaisti (beef). (various references)

   

French

  

rosbif. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ροσμπίφ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

marhasült (beefsteak, fillet steak). (various references)

   

Italian

  

arrosto di manzo. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ローカル番組 (local program, lotion, lotus, low cost, low gear, low-key, low-sulphur, LS, pork loin, roast, roast ham, roaster, roasting meat, rose, rosemary, rosin bag, rotary, Rotary Club, rotary engine, rotor, sirloin). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ロースト"ーフ . (various references)

   

Manx

  

feill vart rostit, feill rostit (roast meat). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oastray eefbay

   

Russian 

  

ростбиф. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rosbif (rump). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oxstek (sirloin). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Roast Beef

Misspellings

"Roast Beef" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: roastbeef. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Roast Beef

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-f-o-r-s-t"

-2 letters: aerobes, afreets, beaters, befrets, berates, boaster, boaters, borates, feaster, rebates, rebatos, roseate, sorbate.

-3 letters: aborts, aerobe, afreet, afters, aretes, barest, baster, beater, before, befret, berate, bereft, berets, boarts, boater, borate, breast, easter, eaters, faster, feater, fester, fetors, forest, fortes, foster, freest, oaters, orates, rebate, rebato, reseat, seater, softer, sorbet, stereo, strafe, strobe.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-f-o-r-s-t"
 

+2 letters: benefactors.

 

+3 letters: forecastable.

 

+5 letters: blanketflowers, foreseeability, forgeabilities, profitableness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Roast Beef


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 6F 61 73 74      42 65 65 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01101111 01100001 01110011 01110100 00100000 01000010 01100101 01100101 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#111 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#66 &#101 &#101 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 006F 0061 0073 0074      0042 0065 0065 0066

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5281678586236717172

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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