eat
suomi-englanti sanakirjaeat englannista suomeksi
syödä
kuluttaa
kiusata
eat englanniksi
To ingest; to be ingested.
To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
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(RQ:King James Version)
{{RQ:Besant Ivory Gate|II
(quote-book)appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw(..)that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
(quote-video game)|location=Redwood City|publisher=Electronic Arts|year=2008|genre=fiction|Science Fiction|system=PC|scene=Noveria|isbn=9780784546642|oclc=246633669|passage=Shepard: Everyone on this station is chafing under Anoleis' extortion. You might end up a hero.Lorik Qui'in: My employers rely on the goodwill of the Executive Board to work here.(w): If these "executives" don't blame Anoleis for provoking this, they're fools. You should eat them.
(senseid) To consume a meal.
(hypo)
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I eat in the kitchen.
To be eaten.
{{quote-text|en|year=1852|title=The New Monthly Magazine|page=310
(RQ:Le Fanu House) with slices of oranges, barberries, grapes, gooseberries, and butter; and you will find that he eats deliriously either with farced pain or gammon pain.
To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (''typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good"'').
To up.
{{RQ:Thackeray Virginians
To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
{{quote-text|en|year=2005|author=Wallace B. McClure; Gregory A. Beamer; John J. Croft IV|title=Professional ADO.NET 2|page=246
To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
1991, (w), ''(w)'' (movie)
- No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
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.
1977, (w), ''(w)'' (movie)
- Hey! This stupid vending machine ate my quarter.
To cause (someone) to worry.
To take the loss in a transaction.
1988, (w), ''(w)'' (movie)
- 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.
(quote-book)
To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, ''The Big Sleep'' (screenplay)
- I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
1997, A. A. Gill, "Diary" (in ''The Spectator'', 1 November 1997):
- 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.
{{quote-book|en|year=2012|author=Kaya McLaren|title=How I Came to Sparkle Again: A Novel|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=9781250017031
{{quote-text|en|year=2017|author=Edward W. Robertson|title=Stardust|publisher=Edward W. Robertson
{{quote-book|en|year=2018|author=Daniel Tomazic|title=Of Bullies and Men: Young Adult Fiction|isbn=9783748182115|page=18
To perform sex (on a person or body part).
(quote-journal) and (w) confronted each other via song like some kind of alt-pop musical-theater number, and it ate. “(w),” 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.
To annex.
{{quote-text|en|year=2011|author=William Chitty; Nigel Barker; Michael Valos|title=Integrated Marketing Communications|page=167
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