beef vs knockdown

beef

adj
  • Beefy; powerful; robust. 

  • Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient. 

  • Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat. 

  • Producing or known for raising lots of beef. 

noun
  • A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with) 

  • The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat). 

  • Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency. 

  • Essence, content; the important part of a document or project. 

  • The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine. 

  • Bovine animals. 

  • Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset. 

  • A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat. 

verb
  • To feud or hold a grudge against. 

  • To cry. 

  • To fail or mess up. 

  • To add weight or strength to. 

  • To fart; break wind. 

  • To complain. 

knockdown

adj
  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down 

  • To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. 

  • reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer 

  • Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. 

verb
  • To employ the knockdown technique 

noun
  • The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. 

  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. 

  • A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. 

  • A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. 

  • a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. 

  • A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. 

  • The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. 

  • An overwhelming blow. 

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