1. eat - Noun
2. eat - Verb
of Eat
To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.
To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
To make one's way slowly.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMan is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler (novelist)
Eat to live, not live to eat. Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates
Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right. Ethiopian Proverb
A moth will eat the finest linen. Indonesian Proverb
Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money. Native American Proverb