eat
part of speech
verb (eat, eats, ate, eaten, eating)
meaning for a pupil
1) To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it. tree →
2) To eat a meal is to have it: we eat dinner at six. tree →
3) To eat into or eat away something is to slowly use it up or damage it: rust eats away metal. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To take food. The Torah says which animals may or may not be eaten and sets rules for eating the sacrifices. Interpretation: These rules are the basis of kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws, which the tradition treats as a way of making daily eating holy. In the primary lessons: food eaten is gone («Tom ate 1 of them» = subtract); in everyday life healthy eating, meals, «eat up», «eat out» (at a restaurant); in science animals that eat plants (herbivores) and eat meat (carnivores), food chains; in safety do not eat berries you do not know
examples
- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. (Torah DEU.14.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Of all clean birds ye may eat. (Torah DEU.14.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- And they did eat there by the heap. (Torah GEN.31.46, JPS 1917) tree →
- So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. (Prophets 1KI.18.42, JPS 1917) tree →
- So they poured out for the men to eat. (Prophets 2KI.4.40, JPS 1917) tree →
- Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. (Writings SNG.5.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- I eat three plums from the table. tree →
- There were 9 apples. Tom ate 1 of them. How many apples are left? tree →
- Ravi ate 4 of the 12 grapes. tree →
- We eat lunch at twelve. tree →
- Eat your vegetables; they help you grow. tree →
- Cows eat grass. tree →
- Never eat wild mushrooms or berries without asking an adult. tree →
- Let's eat out tonight. tree →
- "Then eat heartily," said the Barmecide. tree →
note
Eating makes things disappear: subtract. Trap: «how many did he eat» may ask for the part eaten, found from the start and what is left. Past «ate», past participle «eaten»: «I ate», «I have eaten».
In the corpora
- And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;
- And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
- Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'
- Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
- Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «eat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.