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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 ?
Now I feel fine!" he said after eating the last one.
While the strangers were engaged in eating, many of the people came and stood in the street curiously watching them.
Just eating and drinking, nothing more, but so much!
"Ah, ha," cried Danglars, "this fellow is more like an ogre than anything else; however, I am rather too old and tough to be very good eating!" We see that Danglars was collected enough to jest; at the same time, as though to disprove the ogreish propensities, the man took some black bread, cheese, and onions from his wallet, which he began devouring voraciously.
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.
Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomised life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.
Actually was he hungry when he had megapode eggs, and the well-nigh dried founts of saliva and of internal digestive juices were stimulated to flow again at contemplation of a megapode egg prepared for the eating. Wherefore, he alone of all Somo, barred rigidly by taboo, ate megapode eggs.
I always was fond of eating and drinking, even as a child--especially eating, in those early days.
The manner of eating in Abyssinia, their dress, their hospitality, and traffic.
Jim had refused to leave the field of grass, where he was engaged in busily eating; so the Wizard got out of the buggy and joined Zeb and Dorothy, and the kitten followed demurely at their heels.
In that way I can talk while I am eating without being rude.
husband,' replied she, 'and a wicked bird has come into the house, and has brought with her all the birds in the world, I am sure, and they have fallen upon our corn in the loft, and are eating it up at such a rate!' Away ran the husband upstairs, and saw thousands of birds sitting upon the floor eating up his corn, with the sparrow in the midst of them.