food | food sözüniň manysy AjapSozluk.com

Iňlisçe-Rusça

food

Webster's English Dictionary

food

n. [OE. fode, AS. fda; akin to Icel. fa, fi, Sw. fda, Dan. & LG. fde, OHG. fatunga, Gr. patei^sthai to eat, and perh. to Skr. p to protect, L. pascere to feed, pasture, pabulum food, E. pasture. 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. ()

()

2. Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes. ()

This may prove food to my displeasure. (Shak.)

In this moment there is life and food For future years. (Wordsworth.)

()

Food vacuole (Zol.), one of the spaces in the interior of a protozoan in which food is contained, during digestion. -- Food yolk. (Biol.) See under Yolk. ()

()

v. t. To supply with food. (Baret.)

()