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Eating vs Drinking - What's the difference?

eating | drinking |

As verbs the difference between eating and drinking

is that eating is present participle of lang=en while drinking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between eating and drinking

is that eating is the act of ingesting food while drinking is an act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.

As an adjective eating

is suitable to be eaten without being cooked.

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

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    drinking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
  • * 1853 , Susan Bogert Warner, The wide, wide world (page 372)
    • At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still.