noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a debt/food/housing etc crisis
▪ The failure of the crop this year will create a food crisis.
a department store/video store/food store etc chain
▪ Morgan was the owner of a computer store chain.
a food convoy (=taking food)
▪ Troops were sent to guard the food convoys.
a food crop
▪ The demand for ethanol has reduced the amount of corn grown as a food crop.
a food source
▪ Slugs attack potatoes in late summer, when other food sources are disappearing.
a food/medicine/clothes cupboardBritish English
▪ The medicine cupboard's in the bathroom.
a water/food/housing etc shortage
▪ The water shortage was reaching crisis proportions.
a water/food/milk etc container
an item of food/a food item
▪ Ice cream was probably her favourite item of food.
an item of food/a food item
▪ Ice cream was probably her favourite item of food.
baby clothes/food
cat food
▪ He bought some cans of cat food.
comfort food (=food that you eat to make you feel relaxed and happy)
▪ I find pasta and cheese is a great comfort food.
comfort food
contaminated food/blood/water supplies etc
▪ The infection was traced to contaminated food.
convenience food
▪ We eat too little fresh food, relying instead on convenience foods.
cook food
▪ The book also gives advice on healthy ways of cooking food.
devil's food cake
dog food
▪ a can of dog food
fast food
fish food (=for feeding fish)
▪ I sprinkled some fish food into the tank.
food additives
▪ permitted food additives
food aid
▪ The government launched an appeal for emergency food aid for 60,000 people.
food allergy
▪ a food allergy
food bank
food chain
▪ Pollution is affecting many creatures lower down the food chain.
food colouring
▪ green food colouring
food coupon
food court
food group
food hygiene
▪ a food hygiene training course
food miles
▪ Reducing food miles would reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
food poisoning
food preferences
▪ Very young children may have clear food preferences.
food processor
food safety (=how safe food is to eat)
▪ New food safety laws say that sandwiches for sale in shops must be kept refrigerated.
food stamp
food/alcohol/calorie etc intake
▪ Sickness may develop from inadequate fluid intake.
food/clothes/meat etc ration
▪ the weekly meat ration
▪ a coal ration of 4 kg a month
food/fashion/sports etc maven
▪ A food maven could also be called a gourmet.
food/glucose/lactose intolerance
food/oil/milk etc production
▪ agricultural production and distribution
fuel/clothes/food etc rationing
▪ News of bread rationing created panic buying.
functional food
health food
hot and cold food
▪ The bar serves hot and cold food.
house/food/oil etc prices
▪ A poor harvest led to higher food prices.
junk food
oil/coal/food imports
▪ The country is dependent on oil imports for almost all its basic energy needs.
organic food/vegetables etc
▪ Our restaurant uses only fresh organic vegetables.
▪ Many people think that organic food is better for health.
pet food
▪ cans of pet food
snack foods
▪ snack foods like crisps and peanuts
solid food (=bread, meat etc)
▪ Is the baby eating solid food yet?
soul food
starchy foods
▪ starchy foods
toying with...food
▪ Laura was toying with her food and looking increasingly bored.
wholesome food/fare/meal etc
▪ well-balanced wholesome meals
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fast
▪ This boom in fast food is providing strong competition for both staff restaurants and school meal services.
▪ Knutson frequently uses the slow cooker and oven for food pre tion instead of the microwave and fast foods.
▪ Go to fast food places at peak hours, when extra cooks and cashiers are working.
▪ Wendy's rejoined the fast food market in Great Britain after an absence of nearly six years.
▪ In 1993 more than 500 people fell ill and four died after eating hamburgers from the Jack-in-the-Box fast food chain.
▪ In an era of fast food, subsistence incomes don't make for a culinary culture.
▪ This is the first time a high street fast food chain has linked up with a theme park.
fresh
▪ The damp retreated down the walls, the gardens came back to life and there was fresh food in the kitchen.
▪ Those suggestions are ways to make fresh foods appealing to the eye and fun to eat.
▪ Even fresh food, if stored for long periods, will lose its vitamin content.
▪ Purified water. Fresh food and ice cream flown into combat zones: even pizzas.
▪ They still expected to get cheap baked beans, but would pay over the odds for high-quality fresh food.
▪ Buy fresh foods when they are in plentiful supply, that is, in season. 12.
▪ Should be ready Wednesday. Fresh food - not really obtainable locally.
▪ Sometimes the price advantage lies with fresh, unmodified food and sometimes with food processed in some way.
frozen
▪ Microwave combination ovens can successfully prime cook fresh and frozen foods and regenerate ready cooked dishes from chilled and frozen.
▪ It can also be used to cut frozen food, formica, perspex and plastic piping.
▪ Also, buying canned or frozen food rather than fresh food cuts down our vitamin intake by as much as 25-30 percent.
▪ Their range of frozen foods is supplemented with vitamins, and suitable for marine and freshwater tanks.
▪ Eat as much fresh produce as possible rather than relying on tinned, packed and frozen foods.
▪ As soon as your example is settled and feeding upon these live foods, it should be encouraged on to freeze-dried and frozen foods.
▪ Live food is the best diet for them although fresh or frozen meaty foods of small particle size can be substituted.
▪ And earlier this month he spent a night in a frozen food store.
good
▪ The Baldry Restaurant serves good food at a reasonable price and the Rowan Tree is good for vegetarian food.
▪ Cramond Inn A favourite resort for all who enjoy good food in picturesque surroundings.
▪ Amelia's must have the better food.
▪ There must be some good food round here somewhere.
▪ We were plied with the best food he could offer, drenched in expensive ghee.
▪ What is good for the food industry can be fatally bad for the health of the entire nation.
▪ When they did, they learned that they were good at buying food and merchandising it in their stores.
hot
▪ They had microwave ovens where he was able to heat up a portion of hot food to eat in the car.
▪ Toucans sit in cages and aluminum pots steam with hot food, stewed beef and chicken or sausage and potatoes.
▪ Perhaps after the hot food in the evening?
▪ We delivered hot food, clothing, mail, and ammunition to them every day.
▪ Keep hot food and cold food cold.
▪ There are spice specialty stores, catalogs and magazines. Hot and spicy food shows are burning a path across the country.
▪ An application has been made to establish a hot food shop adjacent to the chip shop.
▪ So school becomes a sanctuary, a haven of stability, hot food and teachers who care.
organic
▪ The organic food most commonly found in a delicatessen is cheese.
▪ The children ate organic foods from health food stores and from the garden at their home.
▪ April 1992: the first wholesale organic food market was opened in London.
▪ The secret of the remarkable production by plants of both oxygen and organic food substances is of course photosynthesis.
▪ This price gulf mirrors the problem with organic food: most shoppers are put off buying it because it's too expensive.
▪ Features / Force of nature / Organic food is good, and good for the environment.
pet
▪ Spillers pet foods had a resilient first half despite the continuing pressure on pet food margins.
▪ Peter Brabeck, Nestle chief executive, has shown a preference for pet food over people food.
▪ Most of the beef exported ends up as hamburgers, pet food, processed meats and baby foods.
▪ Spending on pet food was up more than seven percent in 1991.
▪ Particularly popular with customers were the canned nuts, home remedies, pizzas, pasta, cereals and canned pet foods range.
▪ Save-a-Can banks accept all metal tins including drink, food and pet food cans.
▪ The deal would significantly boost Nestle's position in the pet food market.
■ NOUN
aid
▪ Only 100,000 tonnes of an estimated 500,000 tonnes of food aid required throughout the country had been distributed by early July.
▪ Mogadishu airport had not been used for relief supplies since June 1, when food aid had been stolen at gunpoint.
▪ The move comes after bandits stole half of the food aid sent to save starving millions in the devastated country.
▪ Aid officials and provisional government spokespersons appealed for urgent medical and food aid.
▪ Some food aid is already going in.
▪ Objective: provision of food aid and emergency relief to developing countries.
▪ This statement is clearly true in the context of food aid.
baby
▪ The content of baby food varies with the brand and the type of product.
▪ Fresh baby food sets kids up for eating high-fiber foods throughout childhood, too.
▪ Most of the beef exported ends up as hamburgers, pet food, processed meats and baby foods.
▪ Artificial additives such as colourings, sweeteners and flavour enhancers aren't permitted in baby foods.
▪ Manufacturers are reducing or removing sugars from baby foods, so go for those with no added sugar.
▪ There's no need to feel guilty if you do use baby foods but try not to rely on them.
▪ It is as thick as baby food and leaves a soft sediment on his top lip.
▪ There is a tendency to start on the second stage of commercially produced baby foods at this point.
cat
▪ Indeed if you include our exports, we are the largest manufacturer of dried cat food in the country.
▪ The walls and ceilings were black, and the sole illumination was provided by black candles set in empty cat food cans.
▪ Most of them looked as if they had been moulded in empty cat food tins.
▪ She used to give them Pedigree Chum too, but it was mostly cat food.
▪ This is sold, alongside Omega cat food, through specialist outlets such as pet shops, garden centres and agricultural merchants.
▪ Marie bought loads of cat food before she left, so there's plenty for him.
▪ Our private label business in the supermarkets continues to grow with our cat food products selling extremely well in the major multiples.
▪ This predominance of cans is a correct impression of the country's cat food market.
chain
▪ Caesium accumulates up the food chain from the soil through vegetation to contaminate meat.
▪ Its scientists next plan to assess whether potential contamination carried in air or the food chain could be affecting islanders' health.
▪ Environmentalists have warned that dioxins accumulate in fat and milk and will work their way through the food chain.
▪ In 1993 more than 500 people fell ill and four died after eating hamburgers from the Jack-in-the-Box fast food chain.
▪ The colour, as with the Scarlet Ibis, originates from blue-green algae at the lower end of the food chain.
▪ Following food chains can lead to exciting discoveries.
▪ This poses a threat to agriculture and the food chain, and consequently to human health.
convenience
▪ It's a good buy, particularly if you frequently heat convenience foods.
▪ To conclude this discussion of convenience foods, two points can be made.
▪ This vitamin loss is a reason why those expensive ready-made and overcooked convenience foods are not as nourishing.
▪ They selected 166 convenience foods for cost comparisons with home prepared counterparts.
▪ If you live a fast, hectic life and you eat mostly ready-made convenience foods, try to consider some other alternatives.
▪ They reported that quality-wise, the convenience foods did not differ significantly from the home-prepared items.
▪ The loveliest remarks on this phenomenon come from the corporate convenience food conveyancers.
▪ Cooks around the world love a good convenience food.
health
▪ I discovered they're all switching to health foods, cutting out fat, salt and pork.
▪ Similasan Eye Drops 3 for computer eye fatigue will be available beginning this month in health food stores and select pharmacies.
▪ Many people believe that they help emotional and psychological symptoms; they are available from some chemists and health food shops.
▪ A health food store is a good place to search for the herbs listed above.
▪ A box of eight sausages costs around £1.95, from food stores and health food shops.
▪ Available from all good health food stores, Superdrug and Boots Food Centres.
▪ Maybe it's that the appetizers aren't exactly health food.
hygiene
▪ The government has already introduced tougher laws on food hygiene and now it hopes the register will help council officers enforce them.
▪ The initiative aims at further enhancing already high standards of food hygiene in tenanted houses.
▪ There are 30 courses dedicated to specific safety issues, such as handling portable gas cylinders, food hygiene and accident investigation procedures.
▪ The kitchen area accords with the latest food hygiene regulations.
▪ The case came to light at Liverpool magistrates' court when Shaw Bakery was prosecuted for a lapse in food hygiene standards.
▪ Training is essential and basic food hygiene courses can be completed in six hours.
▪ A Food Standards Agency to take responsibility for food hygiene and safety.
▪ We introduced the 1990 Food Safety Act to ensure the highest standards of food hygiene.
industry
▪ Admittedly, Norton-Taylor castigates the food industry as well as the landowners and the farmers - he spreads his castigation very evenly.
▪ The food industry Y produces with constant returns to scale.
▪ It costs forty pounds and is aimed at travellers, people in contact with sufferers and those in the food industry.
▪ Both dried cream and dried whey are extensively used by the food industries.
▪ Sterilisers: There is no such material as a steriliser in the context of cleaning in the food industry.
▪ There is nothing demeaning about cleaning in the food industry.
▪ One area of manufacturing where we could see some collaboration is the food industry.
intake
▪ Patients assigned to receive steroids consumed an unrestricted diet and were asked to record their food intake during the first four weeks.
▪ Satiety was increased with a larger bulk of food intake.
▪ This need not mean drastically reducing food intake.
▪ Clearly, a rhythm in food intake might be able to adjust the body clock via several mechanisms.
▪ In addition, these patients usually reduce their food intake when disease flares up.
▪ This type of training is very demanding and rest and food intake are most important.
▪ Use your diary to form a picture of the kind of person you are when it comes to food intake.
▪ It can be produced in sheep by reducing the food intake of ewes in early pregnancy.
intolerance
▪ Menopause symptoms are similar to those of food intolerance and may in fact be triggered off by hormone changes.
▪ More undigested food molecules pass through the gut wall than in healthy individuals, making food intolerance much more likely.
▪ Signs of food intolerance to look out for include skin rashes and loose watery stools.
▪ Some of those who are dismissive of food intolerance, see hyperventilation as a widespread cause of vague, multiple symptoms.
▪ At present, there is no good explanation for the link between candidiasis, food intolerance and chemical sensitivity.
▪ Not surprisingly, some of these patients are thought to have food intolerance.
▪ Chapter 2 has touched on food intolerance in the case of dairy produce.
junk
▪ It's too easy to end up living off junk food.
▪ Her secret, she said, is all the preservatives in the junk foods she eats.
▪ This is just my kind of diet - no junk food, plenty of fruit which I love.
▪ I miss things like potato chips and junk food.
▪ This sets a bad example to teenagers, many of whom are overweight and eat too much junk food.
▪ Large-muscle coordination comes from riding bikes and climbing trees, not from watching junk food commercials where other kids play and run.
▪ Reduce your intake of salt, sugar and junk foods - especially beneficial if you suffer from water retention.
▪ But to tell the truth, the album makes a pretty good accompaniment for just sitting around and eating junk food.
preparation
▪ The delegation looked at a range of hotel operations including food preparation, customer care programmes, sales and marketing and budgeting.
▪ The total time used in food preparation consists of active time and inactive time when attention may be directed elsewhere.
▪ The other does household tasks such as repair, food preparation, waste disposal and moving around.
▪ Involve your children in all aspects of food preparation, from shopping to cooking.
▪ Where grease poses less of a problem, in food preparation areas, for example, choose grease-resistant mats for long service life.
▪ Following the annual migration of food preparation to the outdoors is the perennial question: How shall these delicacies be washed down?
▪ Food processors are using the systems for cleaning stainless steel food preparation stations.
▪ It transforms food preparation from a tedious routine into an exciting event, and is top-rack-dishwasher-safe.
processor
▪ Place the roe, lemon juice and squeezed bread in a food processor blender.
▪ Puree sauce in a blender or food processor and strain back into pot.
▪ A mounted ballistic food processor, maybe I can blend them to death.
▪ Meanwhile, combine vinegars, mustard and pepper in a food processor and blend until combined.
▪ Put the mixture into a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. 3.
▪ With food processor running, add the oil in a thin stream until it is thoroughly incorporated.
▪ When the milk is ready, place it in a food processor or whip it into cream.
▪ Transfer to a blender or food processor and puree until smooth.
product
▪ Slim people, like those who are overweight, are lured by modern food products.
▪ Direct mail order sale of food products by food manufacturers and specialty shops has become big business.
▪ Prepare a list of six food products that are available as store brands, generic brands, and national brands.
▪ Cleanliness is essential when carrying a food product like sugar.
▪ Read the labels on all food products for levels of fat content.
▪ As future food products become diversified, so will the means for infection.
▪ Advertising costs are supported by local food retailers and by manufacturers of food products.
production
▪ Nowhere is this more true than in food production.
▪ It also privatized agricultural land, giving a huge boost to food production.
▪ The introduction of cash crops in the 1930s further reduced the amount of land available for food production.
▪ But despite impressive gains in food output globally, per capita food production remains low in many developing nations.
▪ To understand government policies concerning food, we need to look at nutritional levels and the quantity and nature of food production.
▪ In fact, in several countries, food production is at surplus levels, making exportation to neighboring countries possible.
▪ Today the rate of increase in food production has exceeded the rate of increase in the total world population.
▪ Human health can be compromised by industrialized food production, and our future regulations will have to change.
shortage
▪ Also, without sunlight, plants can not photo-synthesize, so there must have been a very considerable food shortage.
▪ A water flea that is starving in a crowded pond is the victim not of food shortage but of competition.
▪ During periods of relative food shortage males tend to move less; dispersion evidently reduces competition for resources.
▪ Spirits around the house picked up for a while in November when our food shortage was suddenly eliminated.
▪ First, is it the case that hunger and food shortages are the result of population pressure?
▪ The report notes that a combination of soil degradation and poor rainfall have increased food shortages and poverty.
▪ Protests over food shortages forced the Government to implement rationing schemes first devised by the Labour and Co-operative movement.
source
▪ They rely on four food sources, that from garden cultivation, from collecting, from hunting, and from fishing.
▪ These schemes permit efficient recovery of water and oxygen but leave the problem of a food source unanswered.
▪ If the dance takes place on a horizontal plane, then this waggled line will point directly at the food source.
▪ A major food source of squirrels and many finches is totally absent this year.
▪ The food-finder might instead single out one other nest mate, and then lead it alone back to the food source.
▪ A second explanation is that antibiotic production is rooted in the plant material that is the food source.
▪ They match the recruiting party to the size of the food source.
▪ In winter it's a wildlife haven; even in the harshest weather it affords a rarely failing food source.
stamp
▪ They had no right to food stamps or unemployment benefits.
▪ At least 270, 000 legal immigrants would lose food stamps.
▪ Example: Our food stamp program is designed to improve the diets of low-income families.
▪ The bill would have made changes in the food stamp program but would have kept it under federal control.
▪ That new job will mean free rent but fewer food stamps, he said.
▪ The $ 418 worth of food stamps he got in February probably will be reduced to about $ 120.
▪ Democrats favor providing for food stamps and Supplemental Security Income.
▪ The department responsible for food stamps and improving conditions for the rural poor should rightfully be held to the highest human-rights standard.
supply
▪ Rich food supplies are laid down within its cells and waterproof coats are wrapped round it.
▪ They encourage corporate and individual responsibility by rewarding thoughtful management of food supply and demand.
▪ Giant kelp is the sea urchins' chief food supply.
▪ The other was an agricultural revolution based on chemical fertilizers, irrigation, and improved seed strains that dramatically expanded food supplies.
▪ A guaranteed food supply will combine with a warner climate to boost their numbers.
▪ The Mormons sold food supplies to the booming mining communities in the Intermountain West.
▪ Clearly, in the long term, improving dietary habits and food supply is the most desirable approach.
▪ Chimps go from small feeding bands to big groups depending on the nature of the food supply.
■ VERB
bring
▪ The only times Gina brought food in were those when she was entertaining.
▪ But we also brought food, stones found along the way, wild flowers, and objects from our personal belongings.
▪ Consumer reliance on processed and ready chilled foods has brought a new food poison to Britain: listeria.
▪ Mattie said, bringing in the food.
▪ Filter-feeding animals such as mussels benefit from the movement of the tides, which brings their food to them.
▪ But he never brought food, which was not only very strange, but rude.
▪ They had not thought it necessary to bring food.
▪ It lived in the warehouse, and all the gang brought it food.
buy
▪ How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal.
▪ He would retrieve this hidden cache, giving Jinju four hundred to buy food and baby clothes.
▪ A mistress was given money to buy food.
▪ You have to go out and buy large quantities of food.
▪ Also, buying canned or frozen food rather than fresh food cuts down our vitamin intake by as much as 25-30 percent.
▪ Soo ran out of the shop to buy food.
▪ I could then buy food and give Mom the change, so ensuring we ate adequately.
▪ When they did, they learned that they were good at buying food and merchandising it in their stores.
clothe
▪ They include objects of precious metal. like the jewelry and famous gold mask, and food and clothing.
▪ Rent, food, furniture, clothes...
▪ The prisoners who escaped invariably turned up at their homes, where they were given accommodation, food and clothing.
▪ We waited for food, clothing, medication.
▪ An estimated 20m households depend on income from coffee to pay for food, clothing and education.
▪ We delivered hot food, clothing, mail, and ammunition to them every day.
▪ There is urgent need there for food and clothing.
▪ Red Cross volunteers are providing food, clothing and temporary shelter to the residents.
cook
▪ Meanwhile, the family owning the house cooked food and prepared drinks for all the people working.
▪ There are also possible shortages of the natural gas used to cook food and heat homes and businesses.
▪ The fire-fighter on mess duty will have collected money from his mates, bought the food and cooked it.
▪ The sausage: The sausage cooked the food.
▪ Use no salt when cooking any food at all.
▪ The bird collected wood, the mouse made the fire and set the table, and the sausage cooked the food.
▪ The wood-stoves that cook the food are extremely inefficient.
▪ I can cook my own food.
drink
▪ No food, nothing to drink.
▪ I may not stop for food or drink.
▪ In the restaurant business, it is simply the price of admission to offer good food and drink in a good location.
▪ He didn't eat much food but he drank more rum than usual.
▪ The wealthy came early, joined the host in the dining room for the best food and drink.
▪ He ate food concentrate and drank stale metallic water.
▪ As a welcome, relatives and friends leave out food and drink on the altar.
eat
▪ Thereafter the reaction occurs obligingly every time they eat the food - but the response is a psychogenic one.
▪ You eat the food they serve here?
▪ This sets a bad example to teenagers, many of whom are overweight and eat too much junk food.
▪ Some of these attributes do and some do not greatly affect the eating satisfaction of foods.
▪ Susceptible people experience flushing and feel unwell when they eat foods containing these compounds.
▪ But like Taller or Stillman, Ornish recommends that dieters stop eating an entire food group.
▪ When I first left home at 17, I was a lot bigger because I used to eat loads of junk food.
▪ It was clear after a period of eating the local food that there was no going back.
freeze
▪ To freeze food, a blast freezer should be employed.
▪ As the marine hobby blossomed the demand for good frozen food designed for marine fishes and invertebrates increased tremendously.
▪ We were freezing and had no food, so we tried to make our way down.
▪ The bakery, frozen foods and other departments also will be expanded.
▪ Whether fed on flake, frozen or live food, this fish seems to thrive.
▪ These are meat-like patties found in the frozen food counter of the supermarket.
▪ Vlasic reported grocery product sales of Dollars 287m last year, compared with Dollars 480m in sales from frozen foods.
▪ Illiterates can not read instructions on a pack of frozen food.
keep
▪ Long passages or stairs between the two make for difficulties in keeping food hot and clearing tables.
▪ Practice these simple rules: Keep cold food cold.
▪ Pete and Chrissie's baby couldn't keep its food down.
▪ Handle it as little as possible. Keep hot food hot.
▪ For example, the specialist Sun Frost range keeps food fresh for weeks rather than days if a power cut occurs.
▪ The desire to talk was like some fantastic hunger; they were my torturers, keeping the food just beyond reach.
▪ Yet the workers who tend the machine and keep open its food supplies must also eat.
▪ We eat too much, diet too much, yet still we advocate keeping food as cheap as possible.
prepare
▪ Sefa-Dedeh is now developing a simple process to prepare a high protein food from cereals and legumes.
▪ Auster retreated to the kitchen to prepare the food.
▪ We all worked extremely hard in the next few days, cleaning all the rooms and preparing the food.
▪ I noticed that to our right there was a large balcony equipped with facilities for preparing and serving food.
▪ You also need to be aware of certain precautions that should be taken in the handling, preparing and storing of food.
▪ In the mill it; has prepared the brothers' food and its duty is now to serve in making their clothing.
▪ She had concentrated on keeping him warm and preparing the food he liked best.
▪ Supermarkets, specialty food shops, bakeries and caterers are sources of quality prepared foods.
produce
▪ As a writer, your sovereign responsibility is to produce real food by making truthful representations.
▪ There are many more ways the ornamental gardener can satisfy a latent urge to produce food.
▪ If there are problems of malnutrition and hunger, these can be tackled at source by attempts to produce more food.
▪ The years of central planning had already produced food shortages in a country where livestock outnumber people by about 12 to one.
▪ The nuts they produce are a wonderful food for humans and squirrels alike.
▪ We produced more food, decade after decade, and saw the civilized nations becoming increasingly materialistic.
▪ The rural community has produced more food than ever before, although not yet enough.
provide
▪ They stopped providing the subsidized food which had made it possible to survive.
▪ It provides food, shelter and case management for more than 70 families at one time.
▪ A foreign charity provides food for the animals, and a veterinarian is called when one falls ill.
▪ The men provide most of the food, so they dominate.
▪ These provide food for nearly two-thirds of the world's population.
▪ I had been providing food to keep this aggregation here.
▪ When the war ended, the most pressing need was to provide food and fuel.
▪ Coupons are provided both by local food retailers and by food processing companies.
serve
▪ Either way it leaves both hands free to turn or serve the food.
▪ The average hospital serves food that is neither appetizing nor nutritious.
▪ Rachaela served the food and they ate it.
▪ I noticed that to our right there was a large balcony equipped with facilities for preparing and serving food.
▪ Voice over Landlords say they're increasingly serving more food than drink, especially in country pubs.
▪ Another volunteer was Riccardo, thirty-five years old, whom I found helping to serve the food.
▪ Maybe it should drop the bratwurst and strudel and serve junk food.
▪ They will hand out the lunches, serve food in the suites and staff food stations in the stadium.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beer/song/food etc fest
food/butter etc mountain
▪ Have you contributed a great deal this year to the butter mountain?
▪ The whole point of those reforms was to get rid of the food mountains.
the food chain
▪ Pollution is having a long-term impact on the food chain in the bay.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A health food store is a good place to look for herbs.
▪ Buddy won't eat the new dog food I bought.
▪ Do you like spicy food?
▪ I'd never tried Indian food before.
▪ I've never had Indonesian food -- what's it like?
▪ Juntao refused food as a protest against prison conditions.
▪ Make sure you leave the cat plenty of food and water before you go.
▪ New-born birds stay in their nest while their mother goes out in search of food.
▪ North Korea faces severe food shortages.
▪ The food's great and it's not that expensive.
▪ The church program provides food and clothing for the needy.
▪ The doctor told him not to eat fatty foods.
▪ the world's largest fast food restaurant chain
▪ They didn't even have enough money to buy food.
▪ To lose weight, cut down on sweet and fatty foods.
▪ You can quite easily make your own baby food at home.
▪ You shouldn't eat all that junk food, it's bad for you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And they buy food and clothes and pay rent.
▪ Any conversation, even if it was only about food, was better than this stalemate.
▪ He jumps back, but he already has a mouthful of food.
▪ I have to cut up his food.
▪ She never spoke to anyone but would nod at Toussaint, who brought her shares of their meager food.
▪ The virus is spread through contact with contaminated food and water.