different between food vs tumbril

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

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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

Alternative forms

• tumbrel

Etymology

From Old French tumberel (in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber, tumber (“to fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?mb??l/

Noun

tumbril (plural tumbrils)

1. A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a cucking stool.
2. A cart which opens at the back to release its load.
   • 1800, The Times, 17 Mar 1800, p.3 col. B:

     They then confined the Dean, while they rifled the house of every valuable article, as well as plate and money; all that was portable they loaded on Mr. Carleton’s own tumbril, to which they harnessed his horse […]
3. A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
   • 1848, The Times, 26 Jun 1848, p.4 col. B:

     It is now ascertained that the tumbrel and the torches which figured in the massacre-scene of the 23d of February were prepared beforehand […]

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 370:

     If there would be former freemasons on the Committee of Public Safety during the Terror, they would be numbered too in the ranks of the émigré armies and counter-revolutionary Chouan rebels, and in tumbrils bound for the guillotine.

4. (Britain, obsolete) A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.

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