eating
the act of a person or thing that eats.
food with reference to its quality or tastiness when eaten: This fish is delicious eating.
used in eating: They brought out plates and eating utensils for dinner.
good or fit to eat, especially raw: A sweet, crisp Gala is the perfect eating apple for a summer salad.: Compare baking (def. 5), cooking (def. 4).
Origin of eating
1Other words from eating
- un·eat·ing, adjective
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How to use eating in a sentence
Public health experts are worried about unhealthy eating, too.
Kids are shooting hoops with rolled up socks, but pandemic physical education is not canceled | Kelly Field | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostOne problem is that we don’t know how much plastic humans are breathing in and eating.
Microplastics are everywhere. Here’s what that means for our health. | Ula Chrobak | February 11, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAt Children’s Hospital, in Washington, doctors are normally treating five or six eating-disorder patients on any given day.
As new moms, they were seeking a better eating experience that delivered plant-based nutrition in a portable format and at a reasonable price.
Changing the plant-based food industry one spoon at a time | Rachel King | February 7, 2021 | FortuneIn response, anti-diet nutritionists, therapists, and activists have taken to social media to point out that a too tight grip on your eating habits can cause anxiety and unhealthy patterns that leave you frustrated and physically uncomfortable.
What celebrity has started to talk about his or her eating disorder?
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTeating disorders, researchers believed, were essentially more severe forms of disordered eating.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTGenetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTBinge eating and purging does the same for someone with bulimia.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTPrevent disordered eating, then, and you can prevent eating disorders.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThen a nervous, anxious feeling that takes away my appetite, and prevents me from eating my dinner.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayHe could easily tell where the acorns had been hidden, and, a moment later, he had rooted them up and was eating them.
Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard BarnumAlthough everybody laughed at such a notion, the Worm-eating Warbler declared that he had a right to his own belief.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott BaileyShe wondered if there were a kind of dreadful dog which made a specialty of eating fathers.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonIn fact, his whole appearance was so alarming that Davy anxiously inquired of him what he had been eating.
Davy and The Goblin | Charles E. Carryl
British Dictionary definitions for eating
/ (ˈiːtɪŋ) /
food, esp in relation to its quality or taste: this fruit makes excellent eating
relating to or suitable for eating, esp uncooked: eating pears
relating to or for eating: an eating house
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