Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Suitable for being eaten, especially without cooking: good eating apples.
- adj. Used in the ingestion of food, as at the table: eating utensils.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of consuming food, especially solid food.
- n. That which may be eaten; food: as, the birds were delicious eating.
- Corroding; caustic.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of eat.
- adj. Suitable to be eaten without being cooked
- n. the act of consuming food
- n. food, comestibles
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
- n. colloq. Something fit to be eaten; food.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of consuming food
Examples
“Or eating as much, but thankfully, he is still *eating* enough!”
“The thought of, uh, escape had crossed my mind, and then suddenly - suddenly - suddenly I felt like bending the freakin bars back, and ripping out the damn window frames and eating them - yes, * eating* them!”
“eating disorder self help books what about it..eating disorder self help books”
“The fact is, our brains are set up to pursue pleasure (as in eating is pleasurable) and avoid pain (even emotional pain).”
“The expression "eating rice in humiliation," which supporters of free lunches often use, reminds Koreans of the years of deprivation following the 1950-53 Korean War, when many had to beg to survive.”
“UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, that's what we call eating and drinking at the same time.”
“While you would eat and smoked all was about the same, when you'd come out for what they called the eating period, smoking period.”
“Breakfast of Champions is what I call eating anything unusual for breakfast.”
“Kind of reminds me, of my late teens, when interest in eating 'wild plants' and youthful enthusiasm was at its peak.”
“The thing they were eating is visible under the middle bird in the top picture.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘eating’.
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Basic English Vocabulary
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Tweets
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