English > solid food: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid / liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment. |
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| Synonym | food |
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| Part of | food, nutrient | Any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue |
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| Narrower | baked goods | Foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven |
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| breakfast food | Any food (especially cereal) usually served for breakfast |
| butter | An edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream |
| cheese | A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk |
| chocolate | A food made from roasted ground cacao beans |
| coconut, coconut meat | The edible white meat of a coconut |
| convenience food | Any packaged dish or food that can be prepared quickly and easily as by thawing or heating |
| dika bread | Somewhat astringent paste prepared by grinding and heating seeds of the African wild mango |
| fish | The flesh of fish used as food |
| fresh food, fresh foods | Food that is not preserved by canning or dehydration or freezing or smoking |
| health food | Any natural or prepared food popularly believed to promote good health |
| junk food | Food that tastes good but is high in calories having little nutritional value |
| leftovers | Food remaining from a previous meal |
| loaf | A quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape |
| meat | The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
| pasta, alimentary paste | shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg |
| produce, green goods, green groceries, garden truck | Fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market |
| seafood | edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc |
| slop | (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink |
| yogurt, yoghurt, yoghourt | A custard-like food made from curdled milk |
| Broader | solid | Matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure |
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| Spanish | alimento, comida |
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| Catalan | aliment, menjar |
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