Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - food
Food
food
n. 1 a nutritious substance, esp. solid in form, that can be taken into an animal or a plant to maintain life and growth. 2 ideas as a resource for or stimulus to mental work (food for thought). Phrases and idioms food additive a substance added to food to enhance its colour, flavour, or presentation, or for any other non-nutritional purpose. food-chain Ecol. a series of organisms each dependent on the next for food. food poisoning illness due to bacteria or other toxins in food. food processor a machine for chopping and mixing food materials. food value the relative nourishing power of a food. Etymology: OE foda f. Gmc: cf. FEED
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noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English fode, from Old English fōda; akin to Old High German fuotar ~, fodder, Latin panis bread, pascere to feed Date: before 12th century 1. material consisting essentially of protein, carbohydrate, and fat used in the body of an organism to sustain growth, repair, and vital processes and to furnish energy, inorganic substances absorbed by plants in gaseous form or in water solution, nutriment in solid form, something that nourishes, sustains, or supplies , ~less adjective ~lessness noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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