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ba·con

(bā′kən)

The salted and smoked meat from the back and sides of a pig.

[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English bæc, back.]

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bacon

(ˈbeɪkən)

1. (Cookery) meat from the back and sides of a pig, dried, salted, and usually smoked

2. bring home the bacon informal

a. to achieve success

b. to provide material support

3. save someone's bacon informal Brit to help someone to escape from danger

[C12: from Old French bacon, from Old High German bahho; related to Old Saxon baco; see back¹]

Bacon

(ˈbeɪkən)

1. (Biography) Francis, Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans. 1561–1626, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist; described the inductive method of reasoning: his works include Essays (1625), The Advancement of Learning (1605), and Novum Organum (1620)

2. (Biography) Francis. 1909–92, British painter, born in Dublin, noted for his distorted, richly coloured human figures, dogs, and carcasses

3. (Biography) Roger. ?1214–92, English Franciscan monk, scholar, and scientist: stressed the importance of experiment, demonstrated that air is required for combustion, and first used lenses to correct vision. His Opus Majus (1266) is a compendium of all the sciences of his age

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ba•con

(ˈbeɪ kən)

n.

the back and sides of a hog, salted and dried or smoked, usu. sliced thin and fried.

Idioms:

bring home the bacon,

a. to support oneself or one's family; earn a living.

b. to succeed.

[1300–50; Middle English bacoun < Anglo-French; Old French bacon < Germanic *bakōn- (Old High German bacho back, ham, bacon), derivative of *baka- back¹; compare Middle Dutch bake bacon]

Ba•con

(ˈbeɪ kən)

n.

1. Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.

2. Francis, 1910–92, English painter, born in Ireland.

3. Nathaniel, 1647–76, American colonist, born in England: leader of a rebellion in Virginia 1676.

4. Roger, 1214?–94?, English philosopher and scientist.

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Noun	1.	bacon - back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried cut of pork - cut of meat from a hog or pig side of bacon, flitch - salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork gammon - hind portion of a side of bacon bacon strip - a slice of bacon bacon rind - the rind of bacon Canadian bacon - from a boned strip of cured loin
	2.	Bacon - English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292) Roger Bacon
	3.	Bacon - English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) 1st Baron Verulam, Baron Verulam, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans

Translations

لـَحْم خَنْزِير مُقَدَّدلَحْم من فَخْذ الخَنْزير

slanina

bacon

Speck

μπέικον

tocino bacón beicon panceta

pekonikylki

bacon lardon lard

slanina

angolszalonna

beikon

pancetta salvare la pelle lardo

ベーコン

베이컨

rūkytas bekonassūdytas bekonas

bekonsspeķis

bacon

bacon flesk salt flesk

bekon

bacon

бекон

slanina

bacon

domuz eti domuz pastırması

thịt lợn muối xông khói

咸肉熏肉

bacon

[ˈbeɪkən] N → beicon m (Sp), tocino m (LAm), panceta f (Arg)
bacon and eggs → huevos mpl con tocino
to bring home the bacon (= earn one's living) → ganarse las habichuelas
to save sb's bacon → salvar el pellejo a algn

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bacon

[ˈbeɪkən] n (= meat) (lean) → bacon m; (fatty) → lard m
bacon and eggs → des œufs au bacon
a rasher of bacon → une tranche de lard
to bring home the bacon (= earn money) → faire bouillir la marmite (= achieve one's goal) → décrocher la timbale
to save sb's bacon (British) → sauver la peau à qn

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bacon

n → durchwachsener Speck; bacon and eggs → Eier mit Speck; to save somebody’s bacon (inf) → jds Rettung sein; to bring home the bacon (inf: = earn a living) → die Brötchen verdienen (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bacon

[ˈbeɪkən] n → pancetta
bacon and eggs → uova fpl con pancetta

bacon

(ˈbeikən) noun

the flesh of the back and sides of a pig, salted and dried, used as food.

bacon

→ لـَحْم خَنْزِير مُقَدَّد slanina bacon Speck μπέικον panceta, tocino pekoni bacon slanina pancetta ベーコン 베이컨 bacon bacon bekon bacon бекон bacon เนื้อด้านหลังและส่วนนอกของหมูที่ใส่เกลือรมควัน domuz pastırması thịt lợn muối xông khói 咸肉

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In this chapter I am going to tell you about Francis Bacon, the great philosopher who lived in the times of Elizabeth and James.

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Nevertheless this period includes in prose one writer greater than any prose writer of the previous century, namely Francis Bacon, and, further, the book which unquestionably occupies the highest place in English literature, that is the King James version of the Bible; and in poetry it includes one of the very greatest figures, John Milton, together with a varied and highly interesting assemblage of lesser lyrists.

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What good thing do you bring?' 'I bring nothing, I want something given me.' Gretel presents Hans with a piece of bacon. 'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.'

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Beans and bacon, cheese and bread, were all he had to offer, but he offered them freely.

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Is there nothing neat or decent to be had in this horrid place?" "What think you of some eggs and bacon, madam?" said the landlady.

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The Terror of the Seas had brought a side of bacon, and had about worn himself out with getting it there.

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Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among the moderns, was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth; and both of them had to be content with an abstraction of science which was not yet realized.

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pie of the most delicate and tender mouse minced up with bacon. And I have taken out all the bones; because Duchess did nearly choke herself with a fish-bone last time I gave a party.

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"Monsieur," replied the latter, with whose mind and person we have been making so free, "you do me much honor; not that I am ever ennuye, for I have," added he, smiling, "a company which amuses me always; but never mind that, I am very happy to receive you." But when saying this, the man with the worn boots cast an uneasy look at his table, from which the oysters had disappeared, and upon which there was nothing left but a morsel of salt bacon.

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In Cypher's she belonged--in the bacon smoke, the cabbage perfume, the grand, Wagnerian chorus of hurled ironstone china and rattling casters.

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"It's oftenest naught but bread," he said, "but I've got a fine slice o' fat bacon with it today."

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While coffee was boiling, bacon frying, and flapjacks were being mixed, Daylight found time to put on a big pot of beans.