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eat·ing
(ē′tĭng)adj.
1. Suitable for being eaten, especially without cooking: good eating apples.
2. Used in the ingestion of food, as at the table: eating utensils.
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eating
(ˈiːtɪŋ)n
food, esp in relation to its quality or taste: this fruit makes excellent eating.
adj
1. (Cookery) relating to or suitable for eating, esp uncooked: eating pears.
2. relating to or for eating: an eating house.
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eat•ing
(ˈi tɪŋ)n.
1. the act of a person or thing that eats.
2. food with reference to its quality when eaten: This fish is delicious eating.
adj. 3. good or fit to eat, esp. raw (disting. from cooking): eating apples.
4. used in eating: eating utensils.
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Noun | 1. | eating - the act of consuming food chewing, mastication, chew, manduction - biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow mycophagy - the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild) consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) coprophagia, coprophagy - eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity dining - the act of eating dinner engorgement - eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation banqueting, feasting - eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) lunching - the act of eating lunch supping - ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting - taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most" necrophagia, necrophagy - feeding on corpses or carrion omophagia - the eating of raw food scatophagy - the eating of excrement or other filth |
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eating
[ˈiːtɪŋ]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
eating
eating
:eating apple
n → Essapfel m
eating disorder
n → Essstörung f
eating house
n → Gasthaus nt
eating place
n → Esslokal nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
eat·ing
n. acto de comer;
a. rel. a comer o para comer;
___ disorder → trastorno alimenticio.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
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