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Eating vs Ate - What's the difference?

eating | ate |

As verbs the difference between eating and ate

is that eating is present participle of lang=en while ate is simple past of eat.

As an adjective eating

is suitable to be eaten without being cooked.

As a noun eating

is the act of ingesting food.

eating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
    • Wait! That's not an eating apple.

    Noun

    (wikipedia eating)
  • The act of ingesting food.
  • Food; cooking, cuisine.
    • I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating !
  • The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

    • Synonyms

    * (ingesting food) dining, consuming, consumption

    Anagrams

    *

    ate

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (eat)

    • Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms ----