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eat
English
Etymology
From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etan? (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?édti, from *h?ed- (“to eat”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /i?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /it/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Verb
eat (third-person singular simple present eats, present participle eating, simple past ate or (dialectal) et or (obsolete) eat, past participle eaten or (dialectal) etten)
- To ingest; to be ingested.
- (transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
- (intransitive) To consume a meal.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I eat in the kitchen.
- I eat in the kitchen.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (intransitive, ergative) To be eaten.
- 1852, The New Monthly Magazine (page 310)
- I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- […] dish him [the fish] with slices of oranges, barberries, grapes, gooseberries, and butter; and you will find that he eats deliriously either with farced pain or gammon pain.
- 1852, The New Monthly Magazine (page 310)
- (copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
- (transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
- To use up.
- (transitive) To destroy, consume, or use up.
- 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
- His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
- 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
- (transitive, informal, of a device) To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
- 1991, Shane Black, The Last Boy Scout (movie)
- No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
- 1991, Shane Black, The Last Boy Scout (movie)
- (transitive, informal, of a vending machine or similar device) To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment.
- 1977, Nancy Dowd, Slap Shot (movie)
- Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
- 1977, Nancy Dowd, Slap Shot (movie)
- (transitive) To destroy, consume, or use up.
- (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
- (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
- 1988, George Gallo, Midnight Run (movie)
- I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
- 1988, George Gallo, Midnight Run (movie)
- (transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
- I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
- 1997, A. A. Gill, "Diary" (in The Spectator, 1 November 1997):
- Friends are only necessary in the ghastly country, where you have to have them, along with rubber boots and a barometer and secateurs, to put off bucolic idiocy, a wet brain, or eating the 12-bore.
- 2012, Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again: A Novel, St. Martin's Press (?ISBN):
- Mike had been to other calls where someone had eaten a gun. He knew to expect teeth embedded in the ceiling and brains dripping off it.
- 2017, Edward W. Robertson, Stardust, Edward W. Robertson:
- The animal was sweating and scared and MacAdams was surprised when they finished up without either of them eating a kick.
- 2018, Daniel Tomazic, Of Bullies and Men: Young Adult Fiction (?ISBN), page 18:
- There was a resounding smacking noise and Georgy was sure Philip had just eaten a fist.
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
- (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
- (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (consume): consume, swallow; see also Thesaurus:eat
- (cause to worry): bother, disturb, worry
- (eat a meal): dine, breakfast, chow down, feed one's face, have one's breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper/tea, lunch
Derived terms
Related terms
- fret
- ort
Translations
See also
- drink
- edible
- food
Noun
eat (plural eats)
- (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
- 2011, William Chitty, ?Nigel Barker, ?Michael Valos, Integrated Marketing Communications (page 167)
- Eating a Picnic creates a flurry of wafer pieces, flying peanuts and chocolate crumbs. […] As well as being messy, Picnic happens to be a big eat – something of a consumption challenge in fact.
- 2011, William Chitty, ?Nigel Barker, ?Michael Valos, Integrated Marketing Communications (page 167)
Anagrams
- -ate, AET, Até, Atë, ETA, TEA, Tea, a.e.t., aet, ate, eta, tea, æt.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?e.at/, [?eät?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?e.at/, [????t?]
Verb
eat
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of e?
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?ea?h(t)/
Verb
eat
- first-person plural present of ii
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???t/
Pronoun
eat
- something, anything
- Antonym: neat
Further reading
- “eat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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fred
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan (compare Occitan fred, freid, freg), from Latin fr?gidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a contracted Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form fridus, attested in a Pompeian inscription, or frigdus, fricdus, in the Appendix Probi; compare French froid, Italian freddo, Spanish frío), from fr?ge?, fr?g?re (“be cold”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?f??t/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?f??t/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?f?et/
Adjective
fred (feminine freda, masculine plural freds, feminine plural fredes)
- cold, cool
- Antonym: calent
Noun
fred m or f (plural freds)
- cold
- Antonym: calor
Usage notes
- The feminine form of the noun is dialectal (Central, Nord).
Derived terms
Further reading
- “fred” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fred” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “fred” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fred” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Danish frith, from Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz, cognate with Swedish fred, frid, German Frieden, Dutch vrede.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /freð/, [?f??æð]
Noun
fred c (singular definite freden, not used in plural form)
- peace
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fre??ð/, [?f??æ?ð], [?f??æð?]
Verb
fred
- imperative of frede
Derived terms
References
- “fred” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz.
Noun
fred m (definite singular freden)
- peace
Derived terms
Related terms
- fredelig
References
- “fred” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fre?/, /fre?d/
Noun
fred m (definite singular freden)
- peace
Derived terms
- fredfull
- fred og ro
- fredsavtale
- fredsmarsj
References
- “fred” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) fraid
- (Sursilvan, Surmiran) freid
Etymology
From Latin fr?gidus (“cold, cool, chilling”) (through a contracted Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form fridus, attested in a Pompeian inscription, or frigdus, fricdus), from fr?ge?, fr?g?re (“be cold”).
Adjective
fred m (feminine singular freda, masculine plural freds, feminine plural fredas)
- (Sutsilvan) cold
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) frestg
- (Puter) fras-ch
- (Vallader) frais-ch
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (cf. German Low German: Freed, Freden, as another possible influence).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fre?d/
- Rhymes: -e?d
Noun
fred c
- peace
- a peace treaty
Usage notes
Fred is peace as opposite of war or similar concrete conflicts. For peace as opposite to chaos, disturbance or anxiety the word frid is used.
Declension
Derived terms
References
- fred in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- dref
Volapük
Noun
fred (nominative plural freds)
- joy
Declension
Derived terms
- fredik
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