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PORK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Meat from a domestic hog or pig
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("pork" is a kind of...):
meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)
Meronyms (parts of "pork"):
cut of pork (cut of meat from a hog or pig)
pork loin (meat from a loin of pork)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pork"):
cochon de lait; suckling pig (whole young pig suitable for roasting)
salt pork (fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt)
pigs' feet; pigs' knuckles (feet or knuckles of hogs used as food; pickled or stewed or jellied)
Holonyms ("pork" is a part of...):
grunter; hog; pig; squealer; Sus scrofa (domestic swine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
Synonyms:
pork; pork barrel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("pork" is a kind of...):
appropriation (money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose)
Context examples:
Exhibiting a cyclic structure containing at least one amino (NH2) group, some Heterocyclic Amines are carcinogenic chemicals formed from cooking meat such as beef, pork, fowl, and fish when amino acids and creatine (found in muscle) react at high temperatures.
(Heterocyclic Amines, NCI Thesaurus)
The primary findings also suggest that not all low-carbohydrate diets appear equal — eating more animal-based proteins and fats from foods like beef, lamb, pork, chicken and cheese instead of carbohydrate was associated with a greater risk of mortality.
(Moderate Carbohydrate Intake May be Best for Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I answered, it was very true; and I wondered how I could forbear, when I saw his dishes of the size of a silver three-pence, a leg of pork hardly a mouthful, a cup not so big as a nut-shell; and so I went on, describing the rest of his household-stuff and provisions, after the same manner.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
After seeing William to the last moment, Fanny walked back to the breakfast-room with a very saddened heart to grieve over the melancholy change; and there her uncle kindly left her to cry in peace, conceiving, perhaps, that the deserted chair of each young man might exercise her tender enthusiasm, and that the remaining cold pork bones and mustard in William's plate might but divide her feelings with the broken egg-shells in Mr. Crawford's.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“If you was sent by Long John,” he said, “I'm as good as pork, and I know it. But where was you, do you suppose?”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Such a beautiful hind-quarter of pork!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
On the last Sunday, they invited me to dinner; and we had a loin of pork and apple sauce, and a pudding.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Volunteers to go and bring in pork.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I shall not attempt calling on Mrs. Goddard, for I really do not think she cares for any thing but boiled pork: when we dress the leg it will be another thing.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If so, it sharpened his appetite; for I distinctly call to mind that, although he had eaten a good deal of pork and greens at dinner, and had finished off with a fowl or two, he was obliged to have cold boiled bacon for tea, and disposed of a large quantity without any emotion.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
