What does EAT mean?

Definitions for EAT
it; eɪt; esp. Brit. ɛt; ˈit neat

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. eatverb

    take in solid food

    "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"

  2. eatverb

    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"

  3. feed, eatverb

    take in food; used of animals only

    "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"

  4. eat, eat onverb

    worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way

    "What's eating you?"

  5. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe outverb

    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"

  6. corrode, eat, rustverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. eatverb

    To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.

  2. eatverb

    To consume a meal.

    What time do we eat this evening?

  3. eatverb

    To be eaten.

    The soup that eats like a meal.

  4. eatverb

    To destroy, consume, or use up.

    This project is eating up all the money.

  5. eatverb

    To cause (someone) to worry.

    What's eating you?

  6. eatverb

    To take the loss in a transaction.

  7. eatverb

    To corrode or erode.

  8. eatverb

    To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.

  9. eatverb

    To consume money or (other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment.

  10. eatverb

    To perform oral sex on someone.

    Eat me!

  11. Etymology: From eten, from etan, from etanan, from h₁ed-. Cognate with Scots aet, Dutch eten, German essen, Swedish äta, Latin edo, Ancient Greek ἔδω, Russian есть, and Lithuanian esti.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To EATverb

    preterite ate, or eat; part. eat, or eaten.

    Etymology: etan , Sax. itan, Gothick; eich, Erse.

    Locusts shall eat the residue of that which is escaped from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth. Ex. x. 5.

    Other states cannot be accused for not staying for the first blow, or for not accepting Polyphemus’s courtesy, to be the last that shall be eaten up. Francis Bacon, War with Spain.

    Even wormwood, eat with bread, will not bite, because it is mixed with a great quantity of spittle. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

    Thou best of gold art worst of gold;
    Other less fine in carrat is more precious,
    Preserving life in med’cine potable:
    But thou, most fine, most honour’d, most renown’d,
    Hast eat thy bearer up. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

    They entail a secret curse upon their estates, which does either insensibly waste and consume it, or eat out the heart and comfort of it. John Tillotson, Sermon 4.

    There arises a necessity of keeping the surface even, either by pressure or eating medicines, that the eminence of the flesh may not resist the fibres of the skin in their tendency to cover the wound. Samuel Sharp, Surgery.

    They cannot hold, but burst out those words, which afterwards they are forced to eat. George Hakewill, on Providence.

    Credit were not to be lost
    B’ a brave knight errant of the post,
    That eats, perfidiously, his word,
    And swears his ears through a two inch board. Hudibras.

  2. To Eatverb

    He did eat continually at the king’s table. 2 Sa. ix. 13.

    And when the scribes and pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, how is it that he eateth with publicans and sinners? Mat. ii. 16.

    He that will not eat ’till he has a demonstration that it will nourish him, he that will not stir ’till he infallibly knows the business he goes about will succeed, will have little else to do but sit still and perish. John Locke.

    The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked shall want. Prov. xiii. 25.

    Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke;
    Care no more to cloath and eat. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

    The plague of sin has even altered his nature, and eaten into his very essentials. Robert South, Sermons.

    A prince’s court eats too much into the income of a poor state. Joseph Addison, Italy.

ChatGPT

  1. eat

    To eat means to take food into the mouth and chew, swallow, and digest it as a means of nourishment and sustenance for the body.

Webster Dictionary

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  3. Eatverb

    to chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread

  4. Eatverb

    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

  5. Eatverb

    to take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board

  6. Eatverb

    to taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef

  7. Eatverb

    to make one's way slowly

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Eat

    ēt, 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. [A.S. etan; cf. Ger. essen, Ice. eta, L. edĕre, Gr. edein.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. eat

    1. To prolong pain; to satisfy the anticipatory pleasure of hunger; to deliberately plan the contamination of the drinking-water of a people. 2. The demagogic demands of the belly. 3. A sinful or extravagant act among the destitute. 4. A sacred rite among the rich. 5. An artificial aid to conversation and the repetition of threadbare stories, generally off-color.

Editors Contribution

  1. eat

    The act or process of an animal or person to put food in their mouth.

    Only sometimes during the day do we feel the need to eat.


    Submitted by MaryC on August 28, 2016  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'EAT' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1707

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'EAT' in Written Corpus Frequency: #515

  3. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'EAT' in Verbs Frequency: #158

Anagrams for EAT »

  1. a.e.t.

  2. ate

  3. ETA

  4. eta

  5. TEA

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  7. tae

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of EAT in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of EAT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of EAT in a Sentence

  1. Dorothy DeBolt:

    Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.

  2. David Johnson:

    I can't even eat. I start and can't finish my food. I'm happy with joy inside.

  3. Christopher Walcek:

    Bears and squirrels wouldnt be able to eat and would starve, deer would similarly be culled.

  4. Alberto Vellos:

    The economy has taken a hit under this administration, and while they boast about the infrastructure development, the people are saying we can't eat concrete.

  5. Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia:

    Love is Light and it has no end. Love is great suffering. It cannot eat, it cannot sleep. It is mixed with sin in equal parts. And yet it is better to love. In love one can be mistaken, and through suffering he expiates for his mistakes.

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