(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.
Mess
Definition:
(n.) Mass; church service.
(n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
(n.) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.
(n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
(n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
(n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
(v. i.) To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
(v. t.) To supply with a mess.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
(2) And that's why I was the first G20 finance minister to introduce a permanent tax on banks – because it's fair that they help clear up the mess they did so much to create.
(3) We need to stop making excuses for them: But it is up to the state to close the loopholes Yes, the state must work continually to tighten and simplify the tax regime, which is a deliberate mess keeping an entire industry of accounting firms and tax lawyers fed.
(4) Of course, amid this mess some free schools are doing marvellously.
(5) The first UK comedy show I ever performed was a total mess.
(6) The local inanimate environment, including mess hut, sleeping huts and sleeping bags used on expeditions, was searched for contamination by S. aureus but none was detected.
(7) Some say Film Socialism is an eccentric masterpiece ; others that it's an eccentric mess.
(8) They had a good threat up top with the two lads up front, who messed us around all day long to be honest.
(9) Clubs got into a mess partly because rich people, who knew nothing about football, put money in - and they got ripped off."
(10) "Sorry to leave it in such a mess, old cock", was the parting shot from the Conservative chancellor.
(11) My weight went down and my house was a bit of a mess.
(12) Friends describe him, kindly, as a mess: invariably tieless, usually unshaven and "sweaty, because he always goes round on his bike".
(13) It had promised its national deficit would drop from 9.5% of GDP to 6%, but turned in an 8.5% deficit that made it the laughing stock of austerity Europe – and left Rajoy's new government having to clean up the mess, which also includes 24% unemployment and a recession that will shrink the economy by 1.7%.
(14) But it's not OK to mess up a movie, it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor.
(15) And to put us in a situation where we are only ‘patriotic’ and only ‘heard’ if we actively take it upon ourselves to fight ‘terrorism’, as if we are responsible for these horrible acts, or by sending us to wars killing other Muslims, is also a problematic discourse.” While on guard near the Iraqi city of Baqubah in 2004, the 27-year-old Humayun Khan ran towards a suicide bomb vehicle that was headed in the direction of a mess hall where hundreds of servicemen were eating.
(16) But they just didn’t know how to manage the situation.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children and adults in the mess at the detention centre Police would book an appointment to interview a child about a serious allegation then fail to show up, Rose said.
(17) Their expertise led to this mess, and would be a hindrance, not a help, in cleaning it up.
(18) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
(19) But Hancock said: "Their fiscal policy is in a mess.
(20) "The only answer to the mess we are in is social uprising and the end of all these barbaric measures."