Consume vs Eating - What's the difference?
consume | eating |
To use.
To eat.
To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
To destroy completely.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew vi. 20
(obsolete) To waste away slowly.
* Shakespeare
* 1899 , Kate Chopin, The Awakening :
Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
The act of ingesting food.
Food; cooking, cuisine.
The act of corroding or consuming some substance.
As verbs the difference between consume and eating
is that consume is to use while eating is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective eating is
suitable to be eaten without being cooked.As a noun eating is
the act of ingesting food.consume
English
Verb
(consum)- The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
- Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
- Desire consumed him.
- The building was consumed by fire.
- If he were putting to my house the brand / That shall consume it.
- Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume .
- Therefore, let Benedick, like cover'd fire, / Consume away in sighs.
- He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.
Synonyms
* (use) burn (of energy ), use, use up * (eat) devour, eat, swallow * (occupy) occupy, overcome, take over * (destroy) annihilate, destroy, devastate, eliminate, obliterate, raze (of a building ), wipe outDerived terms
* consumereating
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- Wait! That's not an eating apple.
Noun
(wikipedia eating)- I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating !