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Catering vs Culinary - What's the difference?

catering | culinary |

As a noun catering

is the business of providing food and related services; foodservice.

As a verb catering

is .

As an adjective culinary is

relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.

catering

Noun

  • The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
  • The business of providing such services for special occasions.
  • The act of one who caters (to something).
  • * 1864 , J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos
  • Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    culinary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
  • Her culinary skills were excellent.
  • Of, or relating to a kitchen
  • Derived terms

    * culinarily

    See also

    * cook * kiln * recipe

    References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001] English collateral adjectives