different between food vs pasture

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 Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin past?ra, from the stem of pascere (“to feed, graze”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??stj?/, /?p??st??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæst??/

Noun

pasture (countable and uncountable, plural pastures)

1. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
2. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.

   • He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
3. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

Synonyms

• leasow

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)

1. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
2. (intransitive) To graze.
3. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pasteur, Puertas, Supetar, tear-ups, tears up, uprates, upstare, uptears

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin past?ra, from p?stus.

Noun

pasture f (plural pasturis)

1. pasture

   Synonyms: passon, pasc

Related terms

Italian

Noun

pasture f

1. plural of pastura

Anagrams

• ruspate, sparute, sputare, sputerà

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa?s?tu?.re/, [pä?s??t?u???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pas?tu.re/, [p?s?t?u???]

Participle

p?st?re

1. vocative masculine singular of p?st?rus

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French pasture.

Noun

pasture f (plural pastures)

1. pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)

Descendants

• French: pâture

References

• pasture on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pasture, supplement)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin past?ra, from p?stus.

Noun

pasture f (oblique plural pastures, nominative singular pasture, nominative plural pastures)

1. pasture (grassy field upon which cattle graze)
2. pasture (nourishment for an animal)

Descendants