different between food vs guar

English

Etymology

From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English f?da (“food”), from Proto-Germanic *f?dô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), West Frisian fiedsel (“food”), Dutch voedsel (“food”) Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (f?deins, “food”), Latin p?nis (“bread, food”), Latin p?sc? (“feed, nourish”, verb). Related to fodder, foster.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fo?od, IPA^(key): /fu?d/
• (General American) enPR: fo?od, IPA^(key): /fud/
• Rhymes: -u?d

Noun

food (usually uncountable, plural foods)

1. (uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food
2. (countable) A foodstuff.

   Synonyms: (archaic, now only humorous or regional) belly-timber, foodstuff, provender; see also Thesaurus:food

   • 2006, C Williams, J Buttriss, Improving the Fat Content of Foods ?ISBN, page 492:

     Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates.

3. (uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.

   Hyponym: brainfood

   • 1798, William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

     In this moment there is life and food / For future years.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "food": raw, cooked, baked, fried, grilled, processed, healthy, unhealthy, wholesome, nutritious, safe, toxic, tainted, adulterated, tasty, delicious, fresh, stale, sweet, sour, spicy, exotic, marine.

Synonyms

• (substance consumed by living organisms): belly-timber (archaic, now only humorous or regional), chow (slang), comestible (formal), eats (slang), feed (for domesticated animals), fodder (for domesticated animals), foodstuffs, nosh (slang), nourishment, provender, sustenance, victuals

Derived terms

Related terms

• feed
• fodder

Translations

See also

• breakfast
• brunch
• dinner
• dunch
• lunch, luncheon
• meal
• supper
• Category:Foods

Further reading

• food on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• food on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• do of, doof

English

Etymology

From Hindi ????? (gv?r), from Sanskrit ?????? (gop?l?, “kind of cucumber”), shortened from ??????????? (gop?lakarka??, “cowherder's cucumber”), from ????? (gop?la, “cowherd”) + ?????? (karka??, “cucumber”) (see Latin cucumis and cucurbita).

Noun

guar (plural guars)

1. An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.

Synonyms

• (Cyanopsis tetragonoloba): cluster bean, guar bean

Related terms

• guaran
• guar gum

Translations

Further reading

• guar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gura, Urga, gaur, ragu, ragù, ruga

Charrua

Noun

guar

1. hand

References

• El último charrúa: de Salsipuedes a la actualidad (1996)
• Idioma español y habla criolla: Charrúas y vilelas (1968)
• ?estmír Loukotka, ?Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 62

Malay

Noun

guar (plural guar-guar, informal 1st possessive guarku, impolite 2nd possessive guarmu, 3rd possessive guarnya)

1. mound, hillock

   Synonym: anak bukit

References

• “guar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Spanish

Etymology

From Hindi ????? (gv?r), from Sanskrit ?????? (gop?l?, “kind of cucumber”), shortened from ??????????? (gop?lakarka??, “cowherder's cucumber”), from ????? (gop?la, “cowherd”) + ?????? (karka??, “cucumber”) (see Latin cucumis and cucurbita).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??wa?/, [??wa?]

Noun

guar m (plural guares)

1. guar

Related terms

• goma guar

Further reading

• “guar”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN