(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.
Gorge
Definition:
(n.) The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
(n.) A narrow passage or entrance
(n.) A defile between mountains.
(n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
(n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
(n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
(n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.
(n.) The groove of a pulley.
(n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
(n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
(v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
(2) Media organisations gorge themselves, then spew out vast quantities of video, sound and copy.
(3) The northern part of the gorge is the only area of Abkhazia that has remained under Georgian government control.
(4) Psychiatric patients have an increased risk for choking compared with the general population because of risk factors such as medication side effects and food gorging.
(5) My plan had read: "Transfer by car from Salta to Purmamarca via the famous tourist attraction of Humahuaca Gorge, then take the bus across the Andes to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile."
(6) No indigenous community will be moved out of their land," he said, adding: "This is a very different project from other major projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam project, which was estimated to have relocated one million people."
(7) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
(8) Let’s begin just after the second world war, when Liverpool took a pre-season trip to the good ol’ US of A to gorge on meat, veg, malted milks and ice creams, working on the theory that by fattening themselves up, they’d have a season’s worth of energy stored when they got back to ration-book Britain.
(9) Each prominent character has been given meaty storylines to gorge on, and while some haven’t panned out quite as well as others (Jimmy’s sideline as a sex worker was introduced and wisely dropped, as was an ill-advised plot-strand about drug-induced rape), the web of intrigue that’s been constructed so far doesn’t have any major weaknesses in it at all.
(10) We propose that binding of acetylcholine, on the surface of AChE, may trigger sequence of conformational changes extending from the peripheral anionic site through W286 to D74, at the entrance of the 'gorge', and down to the catalytic center (through Y341 to F338 and Y337).
(11) In June he and his team were looking at the steep hillsides around the village of Glogova, where remains had been tipped out of trucks and allowed to roll down a gorge.
(12) These data indicate a species difference exists between rats and mice during adaptation to a gorging food-intake pattern.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aerial view of the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river, the biggest such project on earth.
(14) TonyRidge Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire Exploring the woodland at either side of the River Wharfe, where it flows through this spectacular, narrow gorge, is a splendid experience at any time of the year.
(15) In the knowledge that some of the biggest countries in world football – and some of the richest – were queueing up to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, football administrators around the world who had long gorged on the flow of Fifa cash were gearing up for a major payday.
(16) If he had been able to cross gorges and rivers without the need for ancient Egyptian conceits or even unadorned iron trusses, I think he would have leaped at the chance.
(17) As the trucks arrived at the edge of the gorge and tilted their beds back, Abu Abdullah watched in horror as the corpses of women and children began tumbling out.
(18) We want Squeaky Bum Time all the time - and if we don't get it we're going to sit howling in front of our flat-screen televisions, gorging ourselves on scratch cards, KFC popcorn chicken, superficial friendships, crack, two-minute microwave porridge and Ronseal super-quick-drying wood stain.
(19) A new partial skeleton of an adult hominid from lower Bed I (about 1.8 Myr ago), Olduvai Gorge, is described.
(20) Most of them scale Dome Rock, a big exfoliated granite monolith that offers 360-degree views of the mountain range, from the aforementioned Mount Whitney to the north to the Kern gorge (famous for its whitewater rafting) to the south.