Eating – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
eating
n.
act of consuming food, chewing and swallowing
eat
v.
consume food; destroy; wear away, corrode; consume
Eating
Eating (also known as
consuming) is the
ingestion of
food, typically to provide a heterotrophic
organism with
energy and to allow for . Animals and other
heterotrophs must eat in order to survive —
carnivores eat other animals,
herbivores eat plants,
omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and
detritivores eat
detritus. Fungi digest organic matter outside of their bodies as opposed to animals that digest their food inside their bodies. For humans, eating is an
activity of daily living. Some individuals may limit their amount of nutritional intake. This may be a result of a lifestyle choice, due to
hunger or
famine, as part of a
diet or as religious fasting.
eating
Noun
1. the act of consuming food
(synonym) feeding
(hypernym) consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
(hyponym) bite, chomp
(part-meronym) chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
(derivation) feed, eat
eat
Verb
1. take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
(hyponym) wash down
(entail) chew, masticate, manducate, jaw
(derivation) eater, feeder
2. eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
(hypernym) consume, ingest, take in, take, have
(hyponym) take out, take away
(see-also) eat in, dine in
(derivation) eater, feeder
3. take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
(synonym) feed
(hypernym) consume, ingest, take in, take, have
(hyponym) forage
(derivation) eating, feeding
4. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
(synonym) consume, eat up, use up, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
(hypernym) spend, expend, drop
(hyponym) run out
(verb-group) take, occupy, use up
5. worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?"
(synonym) eat on
(hypernym) worry, vex
6. cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
(synonym) corrode, rust
(hypernym) damage
(verb-group) corrode, rust
eat
v.
jíst
eat
Czas.
jeść; jeść; sprawić, by inni jedli komuś z ręki; podmywać; wyżerać; jeść na mieście; zjedz wszystko, co masz na talerzu
