Web 2.0 → Homepage → food

food

Food Food, n. [OE. fode, AS. f[=o]da; akin to Icel. f[ae][eth]a, f[ae][eth]i, Sw. f["o]da, Dan. & LG. f["o]de, OHG. fatunga, Gr. patei^sthai to eat, and perh. to Skr. p[=a] to protect, L. pascere to feed, pasture, pabulum food, E. pasture. [root]75. Cf. Feed, Fodder food, Foster to cherish.] 1. What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment. [1913 Webster]

Note: In a physiological sense, true aliment is to be distinguished as that portion of the food which is capable of being digested and absorbed into the blood, thus furnishing nourishment, in distinction from the indigestible matter which passes out through the alimentary canal as f[ae]ces. [1913 Webster]

Note: Foods are divided into two main groups: nitrogenous, or proteid, foods, i.e., those which contain nitrogen, and nonnitrogenous, i.e., those which do not contain nitrogen. The latter group embraces the fats and carbohydrates, which collectively are sometimes termed heat producers or respiratory foods, since by oxidation in the body they especially subserve the production of heat. The proteids, on the other hand, are known as plastic foods or tissue formers, since no tissue can be formed without them. These latter terms, however, are misleading, since proteid foods may also give rise to heat both directly and indirectly, and the fats and carbohydrates are useful in other ways than in producing heat. [1913 Webster]

2. Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes. [1913 Webster]

This may prove food to my displeasure. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

In this moment there is life and food For future years. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]

Note: Food is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds, as in food fish or food-fish, food supply. [1913 Webster]

{Food vacuole} (Zo["o]l.), one of the spaces in the interior of a protozoan in which food is contained, during digestion.

{Food yolk}. (Biol.) See under Yolk.

Syn: Aliment; sustenance; nutriment; feed; fare; victuals; provisions; meat. [1913 Webster]

Food Food, v. t. To supply with food. [Obs.] --Baret. [1913 Webster]

to spanish

food [fu?d] comestibles, plato
comestibles.idoneos.com
plato.idoneos.com alimento
alimento.idoneos.com

to french

food [fu?d] nourriture
nourriture.idoneos.com
aliment, nourriture, pâture
aliment.idoneos.com
nourriture.idoneos.com
pature.idoneos.com

to deutch

food [fu?d] Ernährung, Essen, Fressen, Kost, Lebensmittel, Nahrung,
ernahrung.idoneos.com
essen.idoneos.com
fressen.idoneos.com
kost.idoneos.com
lebensmittel.idoneos.com
nahrung.idoneos.com
Speise
speise.idoneos.com

food chain [fu?dt?ein] Nahrungskette
nahrungskette.idoneos.com

food cupboard [fu?dk?b?d] Futterkasten
futterkasten.idoneos.com

food cupboards [fu?dk?b?dz] Futterkästen
futterkasten.idoneos.com

to italian

food alimento, cibo
alimento.idoneos.com
cibo.idoneos.com

Bible Dictionary

Food
The diet of eastern nations has been in all ages light andsimple. Vegetable food was more used than animal. The Hebrewsused a great variety of articles, (john 21:5) to give a relishto bread. Milk and its preparations hold a conspicuous place ineastern diet, as affording substantial nourishment; generallyint he form of the modern leben, i.e. sour milk. AuthorizedVersion "butter;" (genesis 18:8; judges 5:25; 2 samuel 17:29)Fruit was another source of subsistence: figs stood first inpoint of importance; they were generally dried and pressed intocakes. Grapes were generally eaten in a dried state as raisins.Of vegetables we have most frequent notice of lentils, beans,leeks, onions and garlic, which were and still are of asuperior quality in Egypt. (numbers 11:5) Honey is extensivelyused, as is also olive oil. The Orientals have been at alltimes sparing in the use of animal food; not only does theextensive head of the climate render it both unwholesome to eatmuch meat and expensive from the necessity of immediatelyconsuming a whole animal, but beyond this the ritualregulations of the Mosaic law in ancient, as of the Koran inmodern, times have tended to the same result. The prohibitionexpressed against consuming the blood of any animal, (genesis9:4) was more fully developed in the Levitical law, andenforced by the penalty of death. (leviticus 3:17; 7:26; 19:26;12:16) Certain portions of the fat of sacrifices were alsoforbidden, (leviticus 3:9,10) as being set apart for the altar,(leviticus 3:16; 7:25) In addition to the above, Christianswere forbidden to eat the flesh of animals portions of whichhad been offered to idols. All beasts and birds classed asunclean, (leviticus 11:1) ff.; Deuteronomy 14:4 ff., were alsoprohibited. Under these restrictions the Hebrews were permittedthe free use of animal food: generally speaking they onlyavailed themselves of it in the exercise of hospitality or atfestivals of a religious, public or private character. It wasonly in royal households that there was a daily consumption ofmeat. The animals killed for meat were--calves, lambs, oxen notabove three years of age, harts, roebucks and fallow deer;birds of various kinds; fish, with the exception of such aswere without scales and fins. Locusts, of which certain speciesonly were esteemed clean, were occasionally eaten, (matthew3:4) but were regarded as poor fare.