(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.
Leat
Definition:
(n.) An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite " ("I told you I was ill") now reminds mourners of Spike's anarchic wit and wisdom.
(2) In 2004, a mother claimed that Leat had been taking pictures of her daughter with a mobile phone but he denied the accusation and no action was taken.
(3) The abuse went undetected at the school – where Leat taught for 15 years – until December last year when one victim told her mother that Leat had been touching her.
(4) Leat, 51, would swear his victims to secrecy and even write letters to them in which he would describe what he wanted to do to them and ask them to reply.
(5) Nicholas Gerasimidis, for Leat, said: "It might be said that had he not been in the position that he was that this interest may never have found an opportunity for expression."
(6) An féidir leat mé a dhíriú i dtreo sagart tuiscineach?
(7) Leat was also seen lifting up and touching young girls in the playground and tickling and cuddling pupils in class.
(8) Another member of staff saw Leat projecting an indecent image of an adult on to a wall during a lesson, warning pupils not to tell their parents what they had seen.
(9) He said he would support anyone else who came forward and said they had been abused by Leat.
(10) Nigel Leat was jailed indefinitely last year for abusing children he taught, often when other pupils were present, and sometimes filming his attacks .
(11) Married father of two Leat, from Bristol, admitted 36 offences involving five pupils aged between six and eight over five years.
(12) Concerns were not followed up and this led to children not being protected from Nigel Leat.
(13) The court was told Leat became interested in images of child abuse on the internet 10 years ago when his marriage became "asexual".
(14) Leat was only arrested in December 2010, when a schoolgirl told her mother he abused her "every day apart from when the teaching assistant was in the classroom".
(15) The judge told Leat: "Your manipulation of the children was clever, cunning and insidious.
(16) Official records show that those who reported Leat's behaviour were told they should not "insinuate things" or "accuse him of things".
(17) Four neutral oligosaccharides (AraXyl2, AraXyl3, Xyl2, and Xyl3), isolated by preparative paper chromatography, were shown by enzymic and methylation techniques to constitute a series of beta-(1 leats to 4)-D-xylose and O-alpha-L-arabinofuranosyl-(1 leads to 3)-O-beta-D-xylopyranosyl-(1 leads to 4)-O-beta-D-xylopyranosyl-(1 leads to 4)-D-xylose, respectively, the latter being a new compound.
(18) Nigel Leat, 51, a married father-of-two, groomed at least one girl a year and showered her with gifts, afforded her privileges and organised one-on-one teaching sessions.
(19) Ofsted carried out inspections and described the level of care afforded to children as "outstanding" during the time Leat, 51, was offending.
(20) About 30 parents and teachers watched at Bristol crown court as Judge Neil Ford QC, the recorder of Bristol, sentenced Leat to an indefinite term and ruled he must serve at least eight and a half years.