Fend vs Food - What's the difference?
fend | food |
To take care of oneself, to take responsibility for oneself.
* 1990 , Messrs Howley and Murphy, quoted in U.S. House Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Oversight hearing on the Federal Service Contract Act , U.S. Government Printing Office, page 40,
* 2003 , Scott Turow Reversible Errors ,
); to block or push away ((non-gloss definition)).
* Dryden
* 1999 , Kuan-chung Lo, Guanzhong Luo, Luo Guanzhong, Moss Roberts, Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel , page 39
* 2002 , Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor ,
(uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (countable) A foodstuff.
(uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Wordsworth)
As nouns the difference between fend and food
is that fend is an enemy; fiend; the devil while food is (uncountable) any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.As a verb fend
is to take care of oneself, to take responsibility for oneself.fend
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Mr. Howley. They are telling him how much they will increase the reimbursement for the total labor cost. The contractor is left to fend as he can.
- Chairman Murphy. Obviously, he can’t fend for any more than the money he has coming in.
page 376
- The planet was full of creatures in need, who could not really fend , and the law was at its best when it ensured that they were treated with dignity.
- With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold.
- He fends , he blocks, too skillful to be downed.
page 187
- “ My age is lot like yours. Lone women do not fare well. If I were not there to fend for you, you—”
Derived terms
* fend and prove * fend away * fender * fend for oneself * fend off * forfendAnagrams
* ----food
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
- Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
- This may prove food to my displeasure.
- In this moment there is life and food / For future years.