Eat

[iːt] or [it]

Definition

(verb.) 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'.

(verb.) take in solid food; 'She was eating a banana'; 'What did you eat for dinner last night?'.

(verb.) worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; 'What's eating you?'.

Inputed by Erma--From WordNet

Definition

(-) of Eat

(-) of Eat

(v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.

(v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.

(v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.

(v. i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

(v. i.) To make one's way slowly.

Typist: Nicholas

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Chew and swallow.[2]. Corrode, consume, wear away.

v. n. [1]. Feed, take food.[2]. Act corrosively.[3]. [Colloquial.] Taste, relish.

Inputed by Gustav

Definition

v.t. to chew and swallow: to consume: to corrode.—v.i. to take food:—pr.p. eat′ing; pa.t. ate (āt or et); pa.p. eaten (ētn) or (obs.) eat (et).—adj. Eat′able fit to be eaten.—n. anything used as food (chiefly pl.).—ns. Eat′age grass or fodder for horses &c.: the right to eat; Eat′er one who or that which eats or corrodes; Eat′ing the act of taking food.—p.adj. that eats: corroding.—ns. Eat′ing-house a place where provisions are sold ready dressed: a restaurant; Good′-eat′ing something good for food.—Eat away to destroy gradually: to gnaw; Eat in used of the action of acid; Eat its head off used of an animal which costs as much for food as it is worth; Eat one's heart to pine away brooding over misfortune; Eat one's terms to study for the bar with allusion to the number of times in a term that a student must dine in the hall of an Inn of Court; Eat one's words to retract: to recant; Eat out to finish eatables: to encroach upon; Eat the air (Shak.) to be deluded with hopes; Eat up to devour: to consume absorb; Eat well to have a good appetite.

Checked by Keith

Unserious Contents or Definition

v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication humectation and deglutition.

Inputed by Ezra

Examples

Edited by Ian

About(关于我们)|Sitemap(网站地图)

Copyright © 2018 EnMama.net. All rights reserved.