food.とは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: fo͞od, IPA^(key): /fuːd/
• (General American) enPR: fo͞od, IPA^(key): /fud/
• 韻: -uːd

名詞

Various foods

food (usually uncountable, 複数形 foods)

1. (uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food

   The innkeeper brought them food and drink.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎^[1]:

     “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
       Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”

   • 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 72-3:

     Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

2. (countable) A foodstuff.

   Synonyms: (古風な用法, now only humorous または regional) belly-timber, foodstuff, provender; see also Thesaurus:food

   • 2006, C Williams, J Buttriss, Improving the Fat Content of Foods →ISBN, page 492:

     Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates.

3. (uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.

   Hyponym: brainfood

   The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.

   Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.

   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     This may prove food to my displeasure.

   • 1798, William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

     In this moment there is life and food / For future years.

使用する際の注意点

• Adjectives often applied to "food": raw, cooked, baked, fried, grilled, processed, healthy, unhealthy, wholesome, nutritious, safe, toxic, tainted, adulterated, tasty, delicious, fresh, stale, sweet, sour, spicy, exotic, marine.

同意語

• (substance consumed by living organisms): belly-timber (古風な用法, now only humorous または regional), chow (スラング), comestible (formal), eats (スラング), feed (for domesticated animals), fodder (for domesticated animals), foodstuffs, nosh (スラング), nourishment, provender, sustenance, victuals

派生語

関連する語

• feed
• fodder