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# eat

verb (eat, eats, ate, eaten, eating)

«eat» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#m1)
2. To eat a meal is to have it: we eat dinner at six. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#m2)
3. To eat into or eat away something is to slowly use it up or damage it: rust eats away metal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#m3)

### In the lessons

food eaten is gone («Tom ate 1 of them» = subtract); in everyday life healthy eating, meals, «eat up», «eat out» (at a restaurant); in science animals that eat plants (herbivores) and eat meat (carnivores), food chains; in safety do not eat berries you do not know

### Examples

- I eat three plums from the table. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x1)
- There were 9 apples. Tom ate 1 of them. How many apples are left? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x2)
- Ravi ate 4 of the 12 grapes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x3)
- We eat lunch at twelve. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x4)
- Eat your vegetables; they help you grow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x5)
- Cows eat grass. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x6)
- Never eat wild mushrooms or berries without asking an adult. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x7)
- Let's eat out tonight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x8)
- "Then eat heartily," said the Barmecide. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x9)

### Note

Eating makes things disappear: subtract. Trap: «how many did he eat» may ask for the part eaten, found from the start and what is left. Past «ate», past participle «eaten»: «I ate», «I have eaten».

## In Jewish tradition

To take food. The Torah says which animals may or may not be eaten and sets rules for eating the sacrifices.

**Interpretation.** These rules are the basis of kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws, which the tradition treats as a way of making daily eating holy.

### Examples

- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. (Torah DEU.14.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eat/#x1)
- Of all clean birds ye may eat. (Torah DEU.14.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eat/#x2)
- And they did eat there by the heap. (Torah GEN.31.46, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eat/#x3)
- So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. (Prophets 1KI.18.42, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eat/#x4)
- So they poured out for the men to eat. (Prophets 2KI.4.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eat/#x5)
- Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. (Writings SNG.5.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eat/#x6)

### Note

Eating makes things disappear: subtract. Trap: «how many did he eat» may ask for the part eaten, found from the start and what is left. Past «ate», past participle «eaten»: «I ate», «I have eaten».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «eat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«eat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/eat.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «eat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«eat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/eat.html) on Mova free.