eat
Definition
To put food in the mouth, chew it, and swallow it; to consume
To remember it
Picture the happy dog wearing a chef's hat, holding a large slice of pepperoni pizza. Think of how the dog looks excited and ready to eat, making 'eat' a fun word to remember.
Examples
- A1
What did you eat for breakfast this morning?
- A1
We eat dinner together as a family every evening at seven.
- A2
She eats a vegetarian diet and has done so for the past five years.
- A2
He ate all his vegetables without being asked — we were very surprised.
- B1
Food cultures — the distinctive ways in which different societies produce, prepare, share, and consume food — are among the most important markers of cultural identity, embodying values about nature, community, family, health, pleasure, and hospitality, and changing as societies change through migration, urbanization, and globalization.
- B1
The global food system — the network of producers, processors, distributors, retailers, and consumers that brings food to people's tables — is one of the largest economic systems on Earth and one of the most consequential for human health, environmental sustainability, and social equality, with debates about how to reform it touching on questions of agricultural policy, trade, climate change, land rights, and dietary health.
- B2
The ethics of what we eat has become an increasingly prominent area of applied ethics, with philosophers debating the moral status of animals (and therefore the ethics of eating them), the environmental consequences of different diets, food justice (whether all people have equal access to nutritious food), and the degree to which individual dietary choices can or should be expected to track complex global chains of production and harm.
- B2
The relationship between eating and identity — the ways in which what we choose to eat, refuse to eat, and how we eat mark and reproduce individual and collective identities — has been analyzed by anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural theorists as one of the most fundamental dimensions of cultural self-definition, with food practices serving as boundaries between groups, markers of religious observance, expressions of class and taste, and sites of resistance and accommodation.
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