You can picture one thick slab cut straight off a big piece of meat and dropped on a hot pan or grill — thick enough to keep its shape, one whole piece per person, cooked fast over high heat. Almost everything steak means starts from that single thick cut.
From the word’s history
First recorded in the mid-15th century as steke, 'thick slice of meat cut for roasting', probably from Old Norse steik 'roast meat' and steikja 'to roast on a spit', from a root meaning 'to stick, pointed' — meat put on a spit. The thickness and the cooking-over-heat idea have been in the word from the start.
十五世紀中就有 steke 這個寫法，指「切下來拿去烤的厚肉片」，可能來自古北歐語 steik（烤肉）和 steikja（用叉子串起來烤），再往上追是一個「刺、尖」的字根——也就是串在叉子上的那塊肉。所以「厚、切下來的一片、直接用火烤」這幾件事，從一開始就在這個字裡面。
Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/word/steak
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
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steaknoun/steɪk/
- 1
Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
- 2
A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
- venison steak, pork steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
- 3
A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.
steakverb/steɪk/
- 1
To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
- 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.
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