What's the difference between eat and supper?

Eat


Definition:

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  • (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.

Supper


Definition:

  • (n.) A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.
  • (v. i.) To take supper; to sup.
  • (v. t.) To supply with supper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
  • (2) You might even arrive home with something tolerable for supper.
  • (3) It is suggested that the identification of the host of Supperer's E. ursini and E. tasmaniae as V. ursinus was in error and that the allopatric L. latifrons is the natural host.
  • (4) The existence of a circadian rhythm for GFR, uTP, uA, and uRBP was corroborated by spontaneous changes over baseline levels, which also were prominent after lunch CL as compared to those following supper CL.
  • (5) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
  • (6) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
  • (7) "No one ever bothered him at the suppers," former pastor Bob Moyer of Hartland told the paper.
  • (8) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
  • (9) Meantime, in Tamworth, Australia, Matt Crawford admits that "nerves, sleep deprivation and a curry supper = high risk viewing this morning".
  • (10) Come supper time, it will serve up a page with the menu of your favourite takeaway, which you can tap to order.
  • (11) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
  • (12) The comments, which follow Clooney's repeated claims over the past week that Britain should return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, were reportedly made in Milan at a press event during which the film's cast posed in front of the famed Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece The Last Supper.
  • (13) She doesn’t see the difference between sharing, say, pictures of a romantic supper during a weekend in Paris and what you do in your hotel room at the end of the night.
  • (14) Asked if the "country supper" was a typical occurrence, he says: "Yes, because we were neighbours."
  • (15) During the rebellion by Tory MPs on the European Union bill last week, Lib Dem ministers sat eating a canteen supper while they waited for the vote.
  • (16) But the digital alarm clock that wakes us in the morning or the wristwatch that tells us we are late for supper are unnatural clocks.
  • (17) The disease of the biliary tract was suspected on the basis of the endoscopic retrograde representation of the common bile duct, and serologically differentiated from a chronic destructive, non-supperative cholangitis on the basis of a lack of antimitochondrial antibodies.
  • (18) Once neither painfully elitist nor patronisingly populist, Edinburgh in August now threatens to become an oligarchy, a Chipping Norton of the arts, its sluices greased by Foster's lager, rather than by country suppers and police horses.
  • (19) Over a supper of brill, roast beef, and lemon parfait, the leaders, not having to take a quick decision, seemed to chill a bit, taking the heat out of the increasingly intemperate exchanges that have marked the past few weeks.
  • (20) The list of " 12 things that the £1,400 UK dividend could buy ", illustrated by a colourful assortment of Lego characters, appears to portray Scots as shoeless, sun-starved, football-obsessed fish supper addicts, with poor grooming habits and such limited imaginations that their favoured activity at the Edinburgh festival is eating hotdogs.

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