Difference between Eating and Feeding

What is the difference between Eating and Feeding?

Eating as a noun is the act of consuming food while Feeding as a noun is the activity of feeding an animal.

Eating

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Suitable to be eaten without being cooked

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the act of consuming food food, comestibles

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To ingest; to be ingested.

Example sentence: If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Feeding

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The activity of feeding an animal.An instance of feeding of an animal.

Example sentence: To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

We hope you now know whether to use Eating or Feeding in your sentence.

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