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Eating vs Manducation - What's the difference?

eating | manducation |

As nouns the difference between eating and manducation

is that eating is the act of ingesting food while manducation is the act of eating.

As a verb eating

is present participle of lang=en.

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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    manducation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of eating.
  • (Christianity) The belief that eating the bread of Eucharist is eating the actual flesh of Jesus.

    • References

    *"a literal, corporal and oral manducation of the very substance of his flesh and blood", Richard Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity V.lxvii.9.