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US
/ˈfud/
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[ UK /fˈuːd/ ]
[ UK /fˈuːd/ ]
NOUN
- any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
- anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
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any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
food and drink
How To Use food In A Sentence
- When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu. NYT > Home Page
- While on the elimination diet, try to avoid hanging on to a few favourite foods and eating only those. The Allergy Handbook
- According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters. Field and Stream Report: The Truth about Mercury and the Fish You Eat
- A lot of the foods that we connect with African-Americans, whether totemically, whether positively or negatively, are indeed and in fact foods from the continent. NPR Topics: News
- Don't bolt your food down like that; it's rude.
- The Hindu fakir would sit for days without food or water, or bury himself alive as a kind of spiritual observance, a separation of mind from body.
- Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower. Archive 2008-06-01
- Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
- The Danish Dairy Board and the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries supported this study.
- The sun was shining, the food at the restaurant was good and I was left with a warm glow in my tummy afterwards.