eat
verbnountop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//iːt//
- United States//it//
To ingest. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
verb
- 1
To ingest. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
He's eating an apple.
Don't disturb me now. Can't you see that I'm eating?
But meate commendeth vs not to God: for neither if we eate, are we the better: neither if wee eate not, are we the woꝛſe.
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 orred tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
- 2
To ingest. To consume a meal.
What time do we eat this evening?
I eat in the kitchen.
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.
[D]ish him with thlitheth of orangeth, barberrieth, grapeth, goothberrieth, and butter; and you will find that he eaths deliciouthly either with farced pain or gammon pain.
- 3
To ingest. To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed.
I try to eat healthy these days.
- 4
To be ingested.
It's a soup that eats like a meal.
- 5
To be savored or enjoyed; to taste in a specified way.
It's an unattractive dish, but it eats pretty good.
- 6
figurativeTo use up. To destroy, consume, or use up.
This project is eating up all the money.
That hobby eats his savings.
His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
- 7
figurativeTo use up. To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
A bigger problem, however, is that if you catch/eat an exception and do nothing with it, you are very likely introducing subtle bugs in your application that will be next to impossible to track down.
- 8
figurativeTo use up. To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.
John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.
No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
- 9
figurativeTo use up. 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.
The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.
Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
- 10
informalTo cause (someone) to worry.
What's eating you?
- 11
To take the loss in a transaction.
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.
The server made an error when taking the order. The bartender prepared two scorpion bowls. When the error was realized the bartender was faced with having to "eat" the extra scorpion bowl […]
When they were doing it with the valuation professionals, they were billing the client, but the valuation professional in a lot of those early cases had to eat the cost of showing the auditor how the auditors' test model was incorrect.
- 12
slangTo be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
And, of course, there was Brian Rusk, who had eaten a bullet at the ripe old age of eleven.
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.
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.
- 13
To corrode or erode.
The acid rain ate away the statue. The strong acid eats through the metal.
- 14
slangTo perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
Eat me!
I ate his ass.
Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.
- 15
slangTo do or perform well and stunningly; to consume a challenge successfully and stylishly; to rule, to slay.
You ate that performance!
This song eats!
Lorde and Charli XCX confronted each other via song like some kind of alt-pop musical-theater number, and it ate. “The girl, so confusing version with lorde,” like all the best pop music, features multiple moments that burrow into your brain and refuse to leave, giving you no other choice but to simply relisten to the track.
- 16
To act well (in a role); to be intensely devoted (to a role).
Most of the movie was pretty weak, but she ate her role, and I couldn't take my eyes off her.
- 17
slangTo annex.
Etymology
From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Cognates Cognate with Scots ait (“to eat”), Yola ayth, eight (“to eat”), North Frisian iidj, iit, ää'e, ääre, ääse (“to eat”), Saterland Frisian iete, íete (“to eat”), West Frisian ite (“to eat”), Alemannic German asse, assu, essen, ässe, ässä (“to eat”), Bavarian eisn, essn, èssn (“to eat”), Cimbrian èssan, èzzan (“to eat”), Dutch and Low German eten (“to eat”), German essen (“to eat”), Luxembourgish iessen (“to eat”), Mòcheno èssn (“to eat”), Vilamovian aosa (“to eat”), Yiddish עסן (esn, “to eat”), Danish æde (“to eat”), Elfdalian jätå (“to eat”), Faroese eta (“to eat”), Icelandic eta, éta (“to eat”), Norwegian Bokmål ete (“to eat”), Norwegian Nynorsk eta, ete, åtå (“to eat”), Swedish äta (“to eat”), Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (itan, “to eat”).
noun
- 1
Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
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.
Etymology
From Middle English ete, ate, æte, from Old English ǣt (“food, eating”), from Proto-West Germanic *āt, from Proto-Germanic *ētą (“food, thing to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Cognate with West Frisian iten (“food”), Saterland Frisian Íeten (“food”), German Aas (“carrion”), Vilamovian aosa (“food”), Icelandic át (“eating; solid food”).
Forms
- plural
- eats
- past tense
- ate, et
- past participle
- eaten, etten, ate
- present participle
- eating
- third person singular
- eats
eat · To ingest. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
eaten · Having been consumed by eating.eater · A person or animal who eats.eating · Bred to be eaten.