different between steak vs cutlet

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

English

Etymology

From French côtelette (recorded in English since 1706), from Middle French costelette (“little rib”), from Old French coste (“rib, side”), from Latin costa. Influenced by English cut, as if from cut +? -let.

Noun

cutlet (plural cutlets)

1. A thin slice of meat, usually fried.

   Synonym: scallop

2. A chop, a specific piece of meat (especially pork, chicken, or beef) cut from the side of an animal.
3. A piece of fish that has been cut perpendicular to the spine, rather than parallel (as with a fillet); often synonymous with steak.
4. A prawn or shrimp with its head and outer shell removed, leaving only the flesh and tail.

Derived terms

• nut cutlet

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cutlet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• cuttle