eating

eat·ing  (tng)

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

Noun

food in relation to its quality or taste: these add up to lots of vitamins and minerals, and good eating

Adjective

suitable for eating uncooked: eating apples

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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