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: I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Eating
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Suitable to be eaten without being cooked
Part of speech: noun
Definition: the act of consuming foodfood, comestibles
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To ingest; to be ingested.
Example sentence: Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.