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eats
| Main Entry: |
eats
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | chow, comestibles, eatables, fare, grub, meals, nosh, nourishment, nutriment, provisions, rations, snacks, sustenance, tidbits, victuals, vittles |
| Main Entry: | eat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | erode, wear away; use up |
| Synonyms: | bite, condense, corrode, crumble, decay, decompose, disappear, disintegrate, dissipate, dissolve, drain, exhaust, gnaw, liquefy, melt, nibble, rot, run through, rust, spill, squander, vanish, waste away |
| Antonyms: | build, maintain, preserve |
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meal |
| Synonyms: | daily bread, eats, fare, food, keep*, mess, provisions, victuals |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cuisine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | cooking, dishes, eats, fare, grub, meal, menu |
| Main Entry: | dinner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evening meal |
| Synonyms: | banquet, blowout, chow, collation, din-din, eats, feast, feedbag, fete, main meal, major munch, potluck, principal meal, refection, regale, repast, ribs, spread*, supper, table d'hôte |
| Notes: | dinner is the main meal of the day and supper is the last meal of the day and lighter than dinner |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | main part of meal |
| Synonyms: | course, eats, entrée, fare, food, helping, recipe, serving |
| Notes: | dish is a more general term and plate is more specialized |
| Main Entry: | fare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food served at meals |
| Synonyms: | commons, diet, eatables, eats, edibles, meals, menu, provision, rations, slop, sustenance, swill, table, victuals |
| Notes: | a fair (noun) is a traveling show or carnival or a gathering of producers to promote business - fair (adjective) means free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception, or very pleasing to the eye, or not excessive or extreme; fare (noun) is the sum charged for transportation, or the food and drink that are regularly consumed - fare (verb) to get along or proceed |
| Main Entry: | food |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edible material |
| Synonyms: | aliment, bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow, comestible, cookery, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats, entrée, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, foodstuff, goodies, grit, groceries, grub, handout, home cooking, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, moveable feast, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provision, ration, refreshment, slop, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, take out, tuck, viand, victual, vittles |
| Antonyms: | beverage, drink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grub |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | chow, comestibles, eats, edibles, feed, nosh, nurture, provisions, rations, sustenance, viands, victuals, vittles |
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