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EATS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Informal terms for a meal
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("eats" is a kind of...):
fare (the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb eat
Context examples:
Whoever roasts and eats it will find plenty of fat upon it, it has lived so well!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"Bosco! He eats 'em alive! Eats 'em alive!" Brissenden exclaimed, imitating the spieler of a locally famous snake-eater.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The genelmanly man that eats with a fork, ’im what looks like a Corinthian, only that the bridge of ’is nose ain’t quite as it ought to be, that’s Dick ’Umphries, the same that was cock of the middle-weights until Mendoza cut his comb for ’im.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
"It's a she-wolf," Henry whispered back, "an' that accounts for Fatty an' Frog. She's the decoy for the pack. She draws out the dog an' then all the rest pitches in an' eats 'm up."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
She eats well and sleeps well, and enjoys the fresh air; but all the time the roses in her cheeks are fading, and she gets weaker and more languid day by day; at night I hear her gasping as if for air.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Encourage healthy eating by: • Serving more fruits and vegetables • Buying fewer soft drinks and high-fat, high-calorie snack foods • Making sure your child eats breakfast every day • Eating fast food less often • Not using food as a reward
(Obesity in Children, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
If she's mad with her, she eats one before her face, and doesn't offer even a suck.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I dare not let my mother know how little she eats—so I say one thing and then I say another, and it passes off.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The little calf always remained standing like one which was eating, and the cow-herd said: “It will soon run by itself, just look how it eats already!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
