different between contagion vs steak

English

Etymology

From Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin cont?gi? (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to conting? (“touch closely”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?te?d??n/
• Rhymes: -e?d??n

Noun

contagion (countable and uncountable, plural contagions)

1. A disease spread by contact.
2. The spread or transmission of such a disease.

   Synonym: infection

3. (figuratively, by extension) The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.
   1. (finance) The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
      • 2011, George Soros, Project Syndicate, Germany Must Defend the Euro:

        And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.

4. (finance) A recession or crisis developed in such manner.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• quarantine
• Contagious disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cognation

French

Etymology

From Latin cont?gi?.

Noun

contagion f (plural contagions)

1. contagion

Related terms

• contagieux

Further reading

• “contagion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (“roast; meat roasted on a stick”). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (“to roast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste?k/
• Homophone: stake
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

steak (countable and uncountable, plural steaks)

1. beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
   • 2017, Letterkenny (TV series):

     "Don't fuck up my steak dinner, Darry."

2. (by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.

   venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks
3. (seafood) A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.

Coordinate terms

• (fish): filet (a slice of meat cut with the grain of the fish)

Derived terms

• flank steak
• steak and kidney pie
• point steak

Descendants

• French: steack
• Thai: ????? (sà-dték)

Translations

Verb

steak (third-person singular simple present steaks, present participle steaking, simple past and past participle steaked)

1. To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
   • 2000, Nick Karas, The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing, page 353:

     Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked. If they are to be steaked, they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.

Anagrams

• Keast, Keats, Skate, Stake, kates, ketas, skate, stake, takes, teaks

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?st?jk]

Noun

steak m

1. steak

Declension

See also

• biftek

Further reading

• steak in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• steak in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From English steak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste?k/

Noun

steak m (plural steaks, diminutive steakje n)

1. steak

Synonyms

• biefstuk

French

Alternative forms

• steack (less current)

Etymology

Borrowed from English steak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?k/

Noun

steak m (plural steaks)

1. steak (of meat or fish)

Derived terms

• envoyer du steak
• s'en battre les steaks

See also

• bifteck