Mating vs Eating - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between mating and eating

is that mating is fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket while eating is suitable to be eaten without being cooked.

As nouns the difference between mating and eating

is that mating is (zoology) pairing of organisms for copulation while eating is the act of ingesting food.

As verbs the difference between mating and eating

is that mating is while eating is .

mating

English

(wikipedia mating)

Adjective

(-)

Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.

Noun

(en noun)

(zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.

* 1981 , Henry Foster, The Mouse in Biomedical Research (page 96)

The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

, title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

Synonyms

* pairing

Verb

(head)

Anagrams

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