English Dictionary

eat

/iːt/

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it. / (intransitive) To consume a meal.

I eat an apple every morning.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.

He’s eating an apple. / Don’t disturb me now; can't you see that I’m eating?

意味（2）

(intransitive) To consume a meal.

What time do we eat this evening?

意味（3）

(intransitive, ergative) To be eaten.

It's a soup that eats like a meal.

意味（4）

(copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").

意味（5）

(transitive) To destroy, consume, or use up.

This project is eating up all the money.

意味（6）

(transitive, programming, informal) To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.

A bigger problem, however, is that if you catch/eat an exception and do nothing with it, you are very likely introducing subtle bugs in your application that will be next to impossible to track down.

意味（7）

(transitive, informal, of a device) To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.

The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.

意味（8）

(transitive, informal, of a vending machine or similar device) To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment.

The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.

意味（9）

(transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.

What’s eating you?

意味（10）

(transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.

I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.

意味（11）

(transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.

I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.

意味（12）

(transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.

The acid rain ate away the statue. The strong acid eats through the metal.

意味（13）

(transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).

Eat me!

意味（14）

(slang) To be very good, to rule, rock.

You ate that performance!