eating

verb

/ˈiːtɪŋ/UK/ˈitɪŋ/US

Etymology

From Middle English etynge, from Old English eting.

inherited from eting
inherited from etynge

Definitions

present participle and gerund of eat
2
Bred to be eaten.
- eating chickens; eating quails
3
Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
- Wait! That's not an eating apple.
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1. 4
  The act of ingesting food.
  - Arabs consider the eating of mushrooms as an aphrodisiac aid.
2. 5
  Food
  Food; cooking, cuisine.
  - I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating!
  - These pears are good eating.
3. The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

The neighborhood

Derived

eating apple, eating disorder, eating habit, eating house, eating irons, eating psychopathology, emotional eating, fish-eating, intuitive eating, large leaf-eating ladybird, miseating, plant-eating, sin eating, snake-eating cobra, social eating, stress eating, worm-eating warbler

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at eating. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at eating. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at eating

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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