Definition of food

"food" in the noun sense

1. food, nutrient

any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

2. food, solid food

any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment

"food and drink"

3. food, food for thought, intellectual nourishment

anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

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Quotations for food

More die by food than famine. [ Proverb ]

'Tis an old maxim in the schools
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit. [ Swift ]

It is an old maxim in the schools
That flattery's the food for fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit,
Will condescend to take a bit. [ Swift ]

The first men that our Saviour dear
Did choose to wait upon Him here,
Blest fishers were; and fish the last
Food was, that He on earth did taste:
I therefore strive to follow those,
Whom He to follow Him hath chose. [ Izaak Walton ]

Give me some music; music, moody food
Of us that trade in love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hearts only thrive on varied good;
And he who gathers from a host
Of friendly hearts his daily food,
Is the best friend that we can boast. [ Holland ]

The food of hope is meditative action. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Much food is in the tillage of the poor. [ Bible ]

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not. [ Emerson ]

Books cannot always please, however good.
Minds are not ever craving for their food. [ Crabbe ]

Better be without food than without honour. [ Italian Proverb ]

What can power give more than food and drink,
To live at ease and not be bound to think? [ Dryden ]

He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. [ William Hazlitt ]

One destined period men in common have,
The great, the base, the coward, and the brave.
All food alike for worms, companions in the grave. [ Lansdowne ]

God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content. [ St. Paul ]

Pride requires very costly food - its keeper's happiness. [ Colton ]

He has but bad food that feeds upon the faults of others. [ Proverb ]

Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food. [ Ward Beecher ]

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. [ Joubert ]

Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food is to the body. [ Cicero ]

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food. [ Ruskin ]

No bird ever flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food. [ Dutch Proverb ]

What makes the breaking of all oaths a holy duty? - food and clothes. [ Butler ]

These things are at once the cause and food of this delicious malady. [ Ovid ]

I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume twice too much food. [ Sydney Smith ]

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [ Cicero ]

Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou may'st for physic. [ Wm. Penn ]

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment. [ Longfellow ]

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred. [ L. E. Landon ]

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. [ Cicero ]

We often diet a healthy body into consumption, by plying it with physic instead of food. [ Swift ]

Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. [ Colton ]

Music is the fourth great material want of our natures, - first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music. [ Bovee ]

Give me flattery - flattery, the food of courts, that I may rock him, and lull him in the down of his desires. [ Beaumont ]

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of food, variety supplies both with fresh appetite. [ Quintilian ]

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. [ William Shakespeare ]

Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its saiety, despair. [ Schiller ]

When a man is in indigence, picking herbs is his philosophy; the enjoyment of his wife his only commerce, and vassalage his food. [ Hitopadesa ]

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food, - they nourish, but at the same time they consume it. [ Bruyere ]

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food. [ Fielding ]

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food. [ Dr. I. Watts ]

In all the world there is no vice Less prone to excess than avarice; It neither cares for food nor clothing; Nature's content with little - that with nothing. [ Butler ]

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. [ J. G. Holland ]

All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. [ Sir W. Temple ]

There is something cordial in a fat man, everybody likes him, and he likes everybody. Food does a fat man good; it clings to him; it fructifies upon him; he swells nobly out, and fills a generous space in life. [ Henry Giles ]

Food, improperly taken, not only produces originnl diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may. In temperance is certainly its mother. [ Burton ]

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death. [ Mackenzie ]

These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [ Cicero ]

There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]

Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise. [ Cervantes ]

Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigour and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable in the commerce of life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. [ Burke ]

Take the title of nobility which thou hast received by birth, but endeavor to add to it another, that both may form a true nobility. There is between the nobility of thy father and thine own the same difference which exists between the nourishment of the evening and of the morrow. The food of yesterday will not serve three for today, and will not give thee strength for the next. [ Jamakchari ]

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]

food in Scrabble®

The word food is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters food:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word food

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food in Words With Friends™

The word food is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters food:

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The 44 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In food

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Words within the letters of food

2 letter words in food (2 words)

4 letter words in food (1 word)

food + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence food

Words with food in them (6 words)

Words that end with food (7 words)

Word Growth involving food

Shorter words in food

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Longer words containing food

angelfood

foodborne nonfoodborne

foodless

foodmaker foodmakers

foodmarket foodmarkets

foods foodservices

foods foodstore foodstores

foods foodstuff foodstuffs

foods petfoods

foods seafoods

foods superfoods

foods wholefoods

nonfood nonfoodborne

petfood petfoods

seafood seafoods

superfood superfoods

wholefood wholefoods