(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.
Predigest
Definition:
(v. t.) To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The elemental diet is a precisely formulated, predigested liquid diet capable of providing adequate nutrition for growth, development and tissue repletion in normal and debiliatated patients.
(2) Symptoms may be eliminated or reduced with good dietary management that includes: 1. limiting milk consumption to one glass at a time; 2. drinking milk with other foods rather than alone; 3. eating yogurts instead of fluid milk; 4. using enzyme tablets to predigest the lactose in milk or to supplement the body's own lactase; 5. possibly eating small amounts of dairy foods each day to adapt the colonic bacteria.
(3) RNAase predigestion, competitive inhibition, and control probe studies confirmed the specificity of the staining.
(4) The sample is predigested with nitric acid and decomposed completely by heating with a mixture of sodium and potassium nitrates.
(5) In addition, embryo outgrowth on stromal ECM was enhanced by predigestion with chondroitinase.
(6) Differences in the distribution of the binding sites for ConA and WGA, apparent in untreated sections, were further analysed following predigestions by collagenase, hyaluronidase or neuraminidase.
(7) The effects of predigesting the sections with trypsin and protease were also evaluated.
(8) Although enzymatic predigestion often markedly reduced the background and enhanced the immunoreaction for certain antibodies, false negative staining or no enhancement of the staining was observed with other antibodies.
(9) An elemental diet is a food which provides the basic needs in calories, proteins, vitamins and minerals with two advantages: it is predigested and leaves minimal or no residue to provide bulk.
(10) In other types of Hodgkin's disease, Reed-Sternberg cells were positive with BerH2 in all cases, positive with LeuM1 in 63% of cases (with enzymic predigestion), positive with at least one B-cell antibody in 29% of cases and positive for CD45 in 8% of cases.
(11) Inhibition of DV-specific response by CoxB was abrogated by predigesting CoxB.
(12) Since the secretroy glands of Droseracea contain proteases and possibly other degradative enzymes it is suggested that the presence of oxygen-activating redox cofactors in the extracts function as extracellular predigestive oxidants which render membrane-bound proteins of the prey (insects) more susceptible to proteolytic attacks.
(13) The types and relative amounts of GAGs present in the presumptive chondrocranium were determined by comparing the amount of radioactivity in the precipitates of the non-digested GAG with the counts in the precipitates of the predigested GAGs.
(14) These globules were eosinophilic, PAS-positive with and without diastase predigestion, phosphotungstic acid hematoxylin (PTAH) positive, and autofluorescent under ultraviolet illumination.
(15) Short DNA regions, known to contain replication origins, were isolated from 2 M NaCl resistant nuclear structures of Physarum polycephalum after predigestion with DNase.
(16) There does seem to be sufficient experimental evidence to suggest that clinical studies should be commenced using a pectin supplemented predigested 'elemental' diet in these patients.
(17) These DNA fragments are not obtained from nuclei predigested extensively with micrococcal nuclease.
(18) Immunohistochemistry was automated and performed on a Code-on slide stainer (Instrumentation Laboratories, Lexington, MA) using Pronase predigestion, a monoclonal antibody (ER-ICA; Abbott, Chicago, IL), and a biotin-labeled secondary antibody.
(19) The serous acinic cells were PAS (periodic acid-Schiff)- and DPAS (PAS with diastase predigestion)-positive.
(20) To determine whether the rate of tissue oxygen utilization affects pressure-flow autoregulation in an age-dependent fashion in postnatal swine intestine, in vitro gut loops from 3- and 35-day-old swine were subjected to a 35% step reduction in arterial pressure under control conditions, during intra-arterial infusion of 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP), and 30 min after luminal instillation of predigested artificial swine milk.