Food vs We - What's the difference?
food | we |
(uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
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)
(personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed).
(personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed.
(personal) The speaker/writer alone.
(personal)
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
As a noun food
is any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.As a pronoun we is
the speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). This is the exclusive we.As a determiner we is
the speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.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.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "food": raw, cooked, baked, fried, grilled, processed, healthy, unhealthy, wholesome, nutritious, safe, toxic, tainted, adulterated, tasty, delicious, fresh, stale, sweet, sour, spicy, exotic, marine.Synonyms
* (substance consumed by living organisms) bellytimber, chow (slang), comestible (formal), eats (slang), feed (for domesticated animals), fodder (for domesticated animals), foodstuffs, nosh (slang), nourishment, sustenance, victuals * (anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea) brainfood * (foodstuff) bellytimber, foodstuffDerived terms
* cat food * comfort food * dog food * fast food * food bank * food chain * food fight * food for thought * food pyramid * food stamp * foodstuff * foody * health food * junk food * rabbit food * seafood * soul food * whole foodSee also
* breakfast * brunch * dinner * dunch * lunch, luncheon * meal * supper *Statistics
*External links
(projectlinks )we
English
Pronoun
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Stents to Prevent Stroke, passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.}}
Determiner
(en determiner)- We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.