Definitions for fasting
fast·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fast, fastingnoun

   abstaining from food

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1. fastingnoun

   Action of the verb to fast.

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1. fasting

   Fasting is the practice of abstaining or restricting intake of food, drink, or both for a specific period of time. It's often used for religious, medical, or weight loss purposes. During a fast, individuals refrain from eating or in some cases, only consume certain types of food or drink.

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1. Fasting

   of Fast

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1. Fasting

   Fasting is primarily an act of willing abstention from all food, drink, or both, for a period of time. An absolute fast is normally defined as abstinence from all food and liquid for a defined period, usually a single day, or several days. Other fasts may be only partially restrictive, limiting particular foods or substance. The fast may also be intermittent in nature. Fasting practices may preclude sexual intercourse and other activities as well as food. In a physiological context, fasting may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight, and to the metabolic state achieved after complete digestion and absorption of a meal. Several metabolic adjustments occur during fasting, and some diagnostic tests are used to determine a fasting state. For example, a person is assumed to be fasting after 8–12 hours. Metabolic changes toward the fasting state begin after absorption of a meal; "post-absorptive state" is synonymous with this usage, in contrast to the "post-prandial" state of ongoing digestion. A diagnostic fast refers to prolonged fasting conducted under observation for investigation of a problem, usually hypoglycemia. Finally, extended fasting has been recommended as therapy for various conditions by health professionals of most cultures, throughout history, from ancient to modern.

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1. Fasting

   Abstaining from all food.

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1. • Abstinence

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fasting in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fasting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of fasting in a Sentence

1. Saint Jerome:

   When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

2. Professor Mark Mattson:

   We are at a transition point where we could soon consider adding information about intermittent fasting to medical school curricula alongside standard advice about healthy diets and exercise.

3. Paola Sergi:

   It's almost like a fasting, like a Lent fasting -- you're not supposed to eat any meat.

4. Richard Valantasis:

   In Eastern Orthodoxy, for example, the fasting rules are pretty elaborate -- no milk, no eggs, no meat, no fish with blood systems, and sometimes no leavened bread, even though the foods for Lent are really wonderful and tasty, they still remind you that you are in the middle of a fasting period and therefore, your eating habits continually reinforce the spiritual disciplines you're supposed to be working through.

5. President Joko Widodo:

   There is no splendor on the streets, the mosque space is in silence, the new atmosphere we will feel, absorbing the true meaning of fasting that we run, let's welcome the blessing Ramadan as a moment to break the chain of transmission of the plague for the sake of personal safety, relatives and the entire nation.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fasting
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fasting
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fasting
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=fasting