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eat
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[ verb ] (food) take in solid food
Examples "She was eating a banana" "What did you eat for dinner last night?" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)The dialogue is sharp , witty and candid - typical `` do n't eat the daisies '' material - which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays , and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it . (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)`` Along with the fruit they did also fall under the power of death , because they did eat in disobedience ; and disobedience to God entails death . In_any_case , though they had been promised immortality if they ate of the tree , they obtained mortality instead . (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)And unlike other fruits , one cannot eat the skin of the avocado . (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)Since strong nociceptive stimuli produce an experimental neurosis during which the animals fail to eat in the experimental situation , Wolpe thought that he could utilize the feeding pain antagonism to inhibit the neurotic symptoms through feeding . |
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[ verb ] (politics,food) eat a meal; take a meal
Examples "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" Used in print (Christopher Davis, First Family....)They ate the cafeteria food with its orange sauces and Scotty gazed without interest at his food , the teachers , the heroic baronial windows , and the bright ranks of college banners . He ate what he felt_like , slept as much or as little as he pleased , and moved about the draughty rooms of the house , when he was not in bed , with slow dubious steps , like an elderly tourist in a cathedral . (Howard Fast, April Morning....)I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man , and when a very small man is up on a saddle , he 'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Charlie ate some supper in the kitchen and went_into the TV_room to hear the news . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)She ate . |
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[ verb ] (food) take in food; used of animals only
Synonyms Examples : "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat" "What do whales eat?" Used in print (Successful Farming, 59:12...)There are three principal feed_bunk types for dairy and beef_cattle : ( 1 ) Fence-line bunks - cattle eat from one side while feed is put_in from the opposite side of the fence by self unloading wagons ; ( 2 ) Mechanized bunks - they sit within the feed_lot , are filled by a mechanical conveyor above feeding surface ; ( 3 ) Special bunks - as discussed here , they permit cattle to eat from all sides . There are three principal feed_bunk types for dairy and beef_cattle : ( 1 ) Fence-line bunks - cattle eat from one side while feed is put_in from the opposite side of the fence by self unloading wagons ; ( 2 ) Mechanized bunks - they sit within the feed_lot , are filled by a mechanical conveyor above feeding surface ; ( 3 ) Special bunks - as discussed here , they permit cattle to eat from all sides . Animals eat only from one side , so the fence-line bunk must be twice as long as the mechanical bunk . |
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[ verb ] use up, as of resources or materials
Examples "this car consumes a lot of gas" "We exhausted our savings" "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
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