eat·ing

(ē′tĭng)

adj.

1. Suitable for being eaten, especially without cooking: good eating apples.

2. Used in the ingestion of food, as at the table: eating utensils.

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eating

(ˈiːtɪŋ)

food, esp in relation to its quality or taste: this fruit makes excellent eating.

adj

1. (Cookery) relating to or suitable for eating, esp uncooked: eating pears.

2. relating to or for eating: an eating house.

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eat•ing

(ˈi tɪŋ)

n.

1. the act of a person or thing that eats.

2. food with reference to its quality when eaten: This fish is delicious eating.

adj.

3. good or fit to eat, esp. raw (disting. from cooking): eating apples.

4. used in eating: eating utensils.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

eating - the act of consuming food

feeding

chewing, mastication, chew, manduction - biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

mycophagy - the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)

consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

chomp, bite - the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

browsing, browse - the act of feeding by continual nibbling

coprophagia, coprophagy - eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity

dining - the act of eating dinner

engorgement - eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation

banqueting, feasting - eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)

grazing, graze - the act of grazing

lunching - the act of eating lunch

repletion, surfeit - eating until excessively full

supping - ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking

degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting - taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most"

necrophagia, necrophagy - feeding on corpses or carrion

omophagia - the eating of raw food

scatophagy - the eating of excrement or other filth

Translations

Fressen

τρώγοντας

alimentare

eating

[ˈiːtɪŋ]

A. N

1. (= act) → el comer

2. to be good eating → ser sabroso

B. CPD eating apple N → manzana f de mesa
eating disorder N → desorden m alimenticio
eating olives NPL → aceitunas fpl de boca

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

eating

n → Essen nt; to make good eating → gut zum Essen sein

eating

eating apple

n → Essapfel m

eating disorder

n → Essstörung f

eating house

n → Gasthaus nt

eating place

n → Esslokal nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

eating

[ˈiːtɪŋ] adj (apple) → da mangiare

eat·ing

n. acto de comer;

a. rel. a comer o para comer;

___ disorder → trastorno alimenticio.

Eating