Eating
['iːtɪŋ] or ['itɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eat
(n.) The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
(n.) Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Corrosive, erosive, corroding, caustic, catheretic.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of eating alone, signifies loss and melancholy spirits. To eat with others, denotes personal gain, cheerful environments and prosperous undertakings. If your daughter carries away the platter of meat before you are done eating, it foretells that you will have trouble and vexation from those beneath you or dependent upon you. The same would apply to a waiter or waitress. See other subjects similar.
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Examples
- The gal's manners is dreadful vulgar; and the boy breathes so very hard while he's eating, that we found it impossible to sit at table with him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The cutting away when there's anything wrong, and the eating all the wittles when there's everything right; is that his branch? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- While eating his cake, I could not forbear expressing my secret wish that I really knew all of which he accused me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I will leave your house without eating or drinking, or setting foot in it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The girls were eating cheese and apples. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Young Freeling was a gentleman, as far as grammar and eating with his fork went; and Fanny proposed our going to Covent Garden together that evening. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The boy--not being able to make up his mind, at the moment--hung about among some other boys, staring at the good things in the eating-house window. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Caliphronas, touching neither coffee nor tea, drank water only, and confined his eating to bread, honey, and eggs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- What is there remarkable about his soup-eating? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To be sure,' assented Mrs. Sparsit, eating muffin. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He does not divide his act into eating and food. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We were eating at the inn from where the buses leave and the room was crowded and people were singing and there was difficulty serving. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Now which is the purer satisfaction--that of eating and drinking, or that of knowledge? Plato. The Republic.
- I see myself, as evening closes in, coming over the bridge at Rochester, footsore and tired, and eating bread that I had bought for supper. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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