What's the difference between ate and eat?

Ate


Definition:

  • () the preterit of Eat.
  • (n.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.
  • (imp.) of Eat

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (2) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
  • (3) The test subjects ate up their food appraising the gustatory qualities of the diet constituents.
  • (4) Complete esophageal impaction developed when the colt ate solid material.
  • (5) Donors ate a typical Israeli breakfast of salad, cheese, yoghurt and pastries.
  • (6) In 2011, a study of people with irritable bowel syndrome found that subjects felt better when they ate a gluten-free diet .
  • (7) No relationship was observed between abdominal fat weight and yellow follicle number, though birds which ate more had more yellow follicles.
  • (8) The patient ate normally after the operation, and radiological, manometric, and esophageal pH monitoring studies indicated satisfactory esophageal function.
  • (9) Subjects reported in a diary everything they either ate or drank for seven consecutive days.
  • (10) The CBV seemed to vary in function with time according to the equation: CBV in ML%: ate-bt + Vo (t = time in minutes: a = integration constant, a = 1.94; b = time constant, b = 0.089; Vo = real CBV).
  • (11) We found that diabetic animals on a 20% or 50% protein diet ate approximately 50% more protein and excreted about 50% more urinary urea nitrogen than did their respective similarly-fed nondiabetic controls.
  • (12) A case is here reported of a 35 year old woman with a history of urticaria following anti-tetanus serum and penicillin injections, who frequently ate exotic fruit, and who was intolerant to alcohol.
  • (13) Seven obese and seven nonobese male undergraduates were videotaped as they ate four dinner meals, two low and two high in preference, under low and high hunger conditions.
  • (14) Our results indicate that all forms of ICP4 observed in one-dimensional gel electrophoresis are poly(ADP-ribosyl)ated.
  • (15) Before eating diet L, subjects ate 50 g lactitol daily for 10 d. 3.
  • (16) Pigeons ate food ad lib, then fasted for several days, and finally ate a controlled amount of food once a day for several months to maintain body weight at 80% of the ad lib value.
  • (17) Diets were variable among groups; group A primarily ate fruit (81.2% of feeding time) and spent little time eating insects (16.9%), while group C was more heavily reliant on insects (44.3%) and ate less fruit (53.0%).
  • (18) It was found that (1) F-fed mice ate more and gained more BWt than C- and D-fed mice, and (2) the average GTG lesion volume of F-fed mice was twice as large as those of C- and D-fed mice.
  • (19) Obese subjects frequently eat irregularly, and ate between meals, especially sweets.
  • (20) Both species ate the same amount per unit body weight but buffaloes spent 53% more time ruminating than cattle.

Eat


Definition:

  • () of Eat
  • () of Eat
  • (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
  • (v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.
  • (v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
  • (v. i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
  • (v. i.) To make one's way slowly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (2) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
  • (3) It looks like the levels of healthy eating are not as good as they should be.
  • (4) The authors presented 16 cases that displayed episodes of pathological over-eating, i.e.
  • (5) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
  • (6) You can get a five-month-old to eat almost anything,” says Clare Llewellyn, lecturer in behavioural obesity research at University College London.
  • (7) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
  • (8) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
  • (9) Second, 6 healthy volunteers were studied while eating a constant diet of 20 g of fiber plus 30 radiopaque markers daily so that mean daily transit time could be measured.
  • (10) In considering nutrition and circadian rhythms, time-of-eating behavior is an inherited, genetically controlled pattern that can be phase-shifted by conditioning or training.
  • (11) Rabbits eating Rabbit Chow excreted a very alkaline urine, but rats eating the same diet excreted much less alkali when expressed per kilogram of body weight.
  • (12) Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating.
  • (13) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
  • (14) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
  • (15) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
  • (16) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
  • (17) He can't eat wheat – he has to have a special diet.
  • (18) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
  • (19) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (20) Cues conditioned to food elicit eating by selectively activating appetitive systems.

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