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eat·ing

 (ē′tĭng)
adj.
1. Suitable for being eaten, especially without cooking: good eating apples.
2. Used in the ingestion of food, as at the table: eating utensils.
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eating

(ˈiːtɪŋ)
n
food, esp in relation to its quality or taste: this fruit makes excellent eating.
adj
1. (Cookery) relating to or suitable for eating, esp uncooked: eating pears.
2. relating to or for eating: an eating house.
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eat•ing

(ˈi tɪŋ)

n.
1. the act of a person or thing that eats.
2. food with reference to its quality when eaten: This fish is delicious eating.
adj.
3. good or fit to eat, esp. raw (disting. from cooking): eating apples.
4. used in eating: eating utensils.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.eating - the act of consuming foodeating - the act of consuming food    
chewing, mastication, chew, manduction - biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
mycophagy - the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)
consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
chomp, bite - the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
browsing, browse - the act of feeding by continual nibbling
coprophagia, coprophagy - eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity
dining - the act of eating dinner
engorgement - eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
banqueting, feasting - eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)
grazing, graze - the act of grazing
lunching - the act of eating lunch
repletion, surfeit - eating until excessively full
supping - ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking
degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting - taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most"
necrophagia, necrophagy - feeding on corpses or carrion
omophagia - the eating of raw food
scatophagy - the eating of excrement or other filth
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Translations

eating

[ˈiːtɪŋ]
A. N
1. (= act) → el comer
2. to be good eatingser sabroso
B. CPD eating apple Nmanzana f de mesa
eating disorder Ndesorden m alimenticio
eating olives NPLaceitunas fpl de boca
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

eating

nEssen nt; to make good eatinggut zum Essen sein

eating

:
eating apple
nEssapfel m
eating disorder
nEssstörung f
eating house
nGasthaus nt
eating place
nEsslokal nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

eating

[ˈiːtɪŋ] adj (apple) → da mangiare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

eat·ing

n. acto de comer;
a. rel. a comer o para comer;
___ disordertrastorno alimenticio.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
Eating 
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References in classic literature ?
Just eating and drinking, nothing more, but so much!
Porpoises, indeed, are to this day considered fine eating. The meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.
I always was fond of eating and drinking, even as a child--especially eating, in those early days.
In the first morality it is the eagle which, looking down upon a browsing lamb, contends that "eating lamb is good." In the second, the slave-morality, it is the lamb which, looking up from the sward, bleats dissentingly: "Eating lamb is evil."
"Your Royal Highness and Fellow Citizens," he began; "the small cat you see a prisoner before you is accused of the crime of first murdering and then eating our esteemed Ruler's fat piglet--or else first eating and then murdering it.
Down went the boaster to the floor with a sounding thump, and the fickle people yelled and laughed themselves purple; for it was a new sight to see Eric of Lincoln eating dust.
Celsus could never have spoken it as a physician, had he not been a wise man withal, when he giveth it for one of the great precepts of health and lasting, that a man do vary, and interchange contraries, but with an inclination to the more benign extreme: use fasting and full eating, but rather full eating; watching and sleep, but rather sleep; sitting and exercise, but rather exercise; and the like.
He was already handing mincemeat down his throat in the most curious manner - more like a man who was putting it away somewhere in a violent hurry, than a man who was eating it - but he left off to take some of the liquor.