eat
v.
consume food; destroy; wear away, corrode; consume
EAT
EAT.
EAT. (also know as EAT. Cafe) is a chain of sandwich shops with over 50 branches in the
UK, the majority in
London, with others in
Birmingham,
Brighton,
Cambridge,
Canterbury,
Gatwick Airport,
Leicester,
Manchester,
Windsor, and
Edinburgh. The first shop was opened in October 1996 in Villiers Street, London, next to
Charing Cross railway station. Owned and run by couple Niall and Faith MacArthur, the company is similar to
Pret a Manger insofar as all the produce is freshly made. Unlike Pret a Manger, food is made in a regional location and delivered to each cafe each morning, and sold the same day.
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Eating
Eat
Eat v. 1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. 2. To consume, ravage, or destroy by or as if by ingesting, such as by a [
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eat
Verb
1. take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
(hyponym) wash down
(entail) chew, masticate, manducate, jaw
(derivation) eater, feeder
2. eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
(hypernym) consume, ingest, take in, take, have
(hyponym) take out, take away
(see-also) eat in, dine in
(derivation) eater, feeder
3. take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
(synonym) feed
(hypernym) consume, ingest, take in, take, have
(hyponym) forage
(derivation) eating, feeding
4. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
(synonym) consume, eat up, use up, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
(hypernym) spend, expend, drop
(hyponym) run out
(verb-group) take, occupy, use up
5. worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?"
(synonym) eat on
(hypernym) worry, vex
6. cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
(synonym) corrode, rust
(hypernym) damage
(verb-group) corrode, rust
Eat
of Eat
(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. t.)
To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
(v. i.)
To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
(v. i.)
To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
(v. i.)
To make one's way slowly.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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