What does eating mean?
Definitions for eating
ˈi tɪŋeat·ing
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word eating.
Princeton's WordNet
eating, feedingnoun
the act of consuming food
Wiktionary
eatingnoun
the act of consuming food
eatingnoun
food, comestibles
I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating!
eatingadjective
Suitable to be eaten without being cooked
Wait! That's not an eating apple.
Wikipedia
Eating
Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for growth. 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 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.
ChatGPT
eating
Eating is the process of consuming food or ingesting substances for sustenance, nourishment, or pleasure. It typically involves taking food into the mouth, chewing it to break it down into smaller pieces, and swallowing it to allow for digestion and absorption of nutrients by the body. Eating is a fundamental activity for humans and many animals to meet their biological and physiological needs.
Webster Dictionary
Eating
of Eat
Eatingnoun
the act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding
Eatingnoun
something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating
Wikidata
Eating
Eating is the ingestion of food to provide for all organisms their nutritional or medicinal needs, particularly for energy and growth. 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.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Eating
The consumption of edible substances.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'eating' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3568
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'eating' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1599
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'eating' in Nouns Frequency: #2596
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Anagrams for eating »
tagine
teaing
tangie
ingate
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of eating in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of eating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of eating in a Sentence
I look back on that time and think, 'Wow, what if I started running in middle school or high school or just creating healthy habits, it wouldn't be so difficult now,' so that's why, we know that the moms are the key to making things happen in the household. If mom is being healthy and eating right, then everybody else will, too.
Going from an ‘ anything goes ’ way of eating to a very strict diet is like going from only knowing how to ride a bike to trying to drive a stick shift Ferrari on the Autobahn.
Somebody with an eating disorder is in competition with everybody else's body, the voice in somebody's eating disordered brain is,' You can't compete with this person, you've got a bigger body, you're bad, you should be on the diet that this person is on.'.
Behavioral changes, including healthy eating and more activity can prevent, or at least ameliorate, the diabetes epidemic.
She was eating big bags and would take them to school with her.
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