Eating vs. Dining

Eatingadjective

Bred to be eaten.

Eatingadjective

Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.

Eatingnoun

The act of ingesting food.

Eatingnoun

Food; cooking, cuisine.

Eatingnoun

The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

Eatingnoun

The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

Eatingnoun

Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.

Eatingnoun

the act of consuming food

Eating

Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus.

Diningnoun

Eating dinner as a social function.

Diningnoun

Entertaining someone to dinner.

Diningverb

present participle of dine

Diningnoun

from Dine, a.

Diningnoun

the act of eating dinner

Diningnoun

the activity of eating a meal