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eating
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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.

eating [ˈiːtɪŋ]
n
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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.eatingeating - the act of consuming food            
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
eating [ˈiːtɪŋ]
A. N
1. (= act) → el comer
2. to be good eatingser sabroso
B. CPD eating apple Nmanzana f de mesa
eating disorder Ndesorden m alimenticio
eating olives NPLaceitunas fpl de boca
eating
nEssen nt; to make good eatinggut zum Essen sein

eating:
eating apple
nEssapfel m
eating disorder
nEssstörung f
eating house
nGasthaus nt
eating place
nEsslokal nt
eating [ˈiːtɪŋ] adj (apple) → da mangiare
eating [ˈiːtɪŋ] adj (apple) → da mangiare


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