eating

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈiːtɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈitɪŋ/, [ˈiɾɪŋ]

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• Hyphenation: eat‧ing
• Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ

Etymology 1

Verb

eating

1. present participle and gerund of eat

Adjective

eating (not comparable)

1. Bred to be eaten.

   eating chickens; eating quails

2. Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.

   Wait! That's not an eating apple.

Derived terms

• eating apple

Translations

suitable to be eaten without cooking

Finnish: ruoka- (fi)

Etymology 2

From Middle English etynge, from Old English eting.

Noun

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Wikipedia

eating (countable and uncountable, plural eatings)

1. The act of ingesting food.
2. (informal, dialectal) Food; cooking, cuisine.

   I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating!

3. The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

Synonyms

• (ingesting food): dining, consuming, consumption

Derived terms

• eating disorder
• eating habit
• eating house
• eating irons
• eating psychopathology
• emotional eating
• fish-eating
• intuitive eating
• large leaf-eating ladybird
• miseating
• plant-eating
• sin eating
• snake-eating cobra
• social eating
• stress eating
• worm-eating warbler

Translations

the act of consuming food

Arabic: أَكْل (ar) m (ʔakl) Bulgarian: хра́нене (bg) n (hránene) Czech: jídlo (cs) n, jezení n East Central German: Assn n Finnish: syöminen (fi), ruokailu (fi) German: Essen (de) n Hebrew: אֲכִילָה (he) Hungarian: evés (hu) Indonesian: pemakanan Ingrian: söömiin Italian: mangiare (it) Japanese: 食べること (ja) (たべること, taberu koto) Kabyle: učči Korean: 먹기 (meokgi) Macedonian: јадење n (jadenje) Malay: pemakanan (ms) Ngarrindjeri: yayun Old English: ǣt m Polish: jedzenie (pl) n Portuguese: consumível (pt) Russian: приём пи́щи m (prijóm píšči), приня́тие пи́щи n (prinjátije píšči) Swahili: kula (sw) Telugu: తినుట (te) (tinuṭa)

food, comestibles

Belarusian: е́жа f (jéža) Bulgarian: храна́ (bg) f (hraná) Finnish: ruoka (fi) French: bouffe (fr) f, manger (fr) m Ingrian: rooka, söökki, toitto, toittu, söömiin Macedonian: лапачка f (lapačka) Portuguese: comestível (pt) Russian: еда́ (ru) f (jedá), пи́ща (ru) f (píšča) Ukrainian: ї́жа (uk) f (jíža)

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