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English

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Etymology

{{term|foda|fōda|lang=ang}}, from , by w:Grimm's law|Grimm's law from {{proto|Indo-European|peh₂||poh₂|to protect}}.

Pronunciation

  • , IPA: /fuːd/,
  • , IPA: /fud/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-food.ogg


Noun

  1. Any substance that is or can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
  2. : The innkeeper brought them food and drink.
  3. Anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea.
  4. : That is food for thought.
  5. A foodstuff.
  6. : This shop stocks many hundreds of different foods.


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Translations

  • Italian: {{t+|it|cibo|m}}, {{t+|it|alimento|m}}

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Category:200 English basic words Category:Articles which need Kannada script Category:Food and drink|*

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Food \Food\, v. t.
To supply with food. [Obs.] --Baret.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Food \Food\, n. [OE. fode, AS. f[=o]da; akin to Icel.
f[ae][eth]a, f[ae][eth]i, Sw. f["o]da, Dan. & LG. f["o]de,
OHG. fatunga, Gr. patei^sthai to eat, and perh. to Skr. p[=a]
to protect, L. pascere to feed, pasture, pabulum food, E.
pasture. [root]75. Cf. Feed, Fodder food, Foster to
cherish.]
1. What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being
received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an
animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is
eaten by animals for nourishment.
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Note: In a physiological sense, true aliment is to be
distinguished as that portion of the food which is
capable of being digested and absorbed into the blood,
thus furnishing nourishment, in distinction from the
indigestible matter which passes out through the
alimentary canal as f[ae]ces.
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Note: Foods are divided into two main groups: nitrogenous, or
proteid, foods, i.e., those which contain nitrogen, and
nonnitrogenous, i.e., those which do not contain
nitrogen. The latter group embraces the fats and
carbohydrates, which collectively are sometimes termed
heat producers or respiratory foods, since by oxidation
in the body they especially subserve the production of
heat. The proteids, on the other hand, are known as
plastic foods or tissue formers, since no tissue can be
formed without them. These latter terms, however, are
misleading, since proteid foods may also give rise to
heat both directly and indirectly, and the fats and
carbohydrates are useful in other ways than in
producing heat.
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2. Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the
feelings, or molds habits of character; that which
nourishes.
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This may prove food to my displeasure. --Shak.
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In this moment there is life and food
For future years. --Wordsworth.
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Note: Food is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
compounds, as in food fish or food-fish, food supply.
[1913 Webster]

Food vacuole (Zool.), one of the spaces in the interior of
a protozoan in which food is contained, during digestion.


Food yolk. (Biol.) See under Yolk.

Syn: Aliment; sustenance; nutriment; feed; fare; victuals;
provisions; meat.
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WordNet food
n 1: any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give
energy and build tissue [syn: nutrient]
2: any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a
source of nourishment; "food and drink"
3: anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking [syn: {food
for thought}, intellectual nourishment]
Moby Dictionary
aliment , bread , chow , comestibles , commons , eatables , eats ,
edibles , feed , foodstuff , foodstuffs , grub , meat , nourishment ,
nurture , nutriment , pabulum , pap , provender , provisions , rations ,
scoff , subsistence , sustenance , tuck , viands , victuals


Jargon Food

Ethnic. Spicy. Oriental, esp. Chinese and most esp. Szechuan, Hunan, and
Mandarin (hackers consider Cantonese vaguely de'classe'). Hackers prefer
the exotic; for example, the Japanese-food fans among them will eat with
gusto such delicacies as fugu (poisonous pufferfish) and whale. Thai food
has experienced flurries of popularity. Where available, high-quality
Jewish delicatessen food is much esteemed. A visible minority of
Southwestern and Pacific Coast hackers prefers Mexican.

For those all-night hacks, pizza and microwaved burritos are big.
Interestingly, though the mainstream culture has tended to think of hackers
as incorrigible junk-food junkies, many have at least mildly health-foodist
attitudes and are fairly discriminating about what they eat. This may be
generational; anecdotal evidence suggests that the stereotype was more on
the mark before the early 1980s.


Food Originally the Creator granted the use of the vegetable world for food to man (Gen. 1:29), with the exception mentioned (2:17). The use of animal food was probably not unknown to the antediluvians. There is, however, a distinct law on the subject given to Noah after the Deluge (Gen. 9:2-5). Various articles of food used in the patriarchal age are mentioned in Gen. 18:6-8; 25:34; 27:3, 4; 43:11. Regarding the food of the Israelites in Egypt, see Ex. 16:3; Num. 11:5. In the wilderness their ordinary food was miraculously supplied in the manna. They had also quails (Ex. 16:11-13; Num. 11:31). In the law of Moses there are special regulations as to the animals to be used for food (Lev. 11; Deut. 14:3-21). The Jews were also forbidden to use as food anything that had been consecrated to idols (Ex. 34:15), or animals that had died of disease or had been torn by wild beasts (Ex. 22:31; Lev. 22:8). (See also for other restrictions Ex. 23:19; 29:13-22; Lev. 3:4-9; 9:18, 19; 22:8; Deut. 14:21.) But beyond these restrictions they had a large grant from God (Deut. 14:26; 32:13, 14). Food was prepared for use in various ways. The cereals were sometimes eaten without any preparation (Lev. 23:14; Deut. 23:25; 2 Kings 4:42). Vegetables were cooked by boiling (Gen. 25:30, 34; 2 Kings 4:38, 39), and thus also other articles of food were prepared for use (Gen. 27:4; Prov. 23:3; Ezek. 24:10; Luke 24:42; John 21:9). Food was also prepared by roasting (Ex. 12:8; Lev. 2:14). (See {COOK}.)
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