Eat to satiety

  • 1satiety — /seuh tuy i tee/, n. the state of being satiated; surfeit. [1525 35; < L satietas; r. earlier sacietie < MF sacieté < L] * * * ▪ physiology       desire to limit further food intake, as after completing a satisfying meal. The hypothalamus, part&#8230; …

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  • 2satiety — sa·ti·ety sə tī ət ēalso sā sh(ē )ət n, pl eties the quality or state of being fed or gratified to or beyond capacity * * * sa·ti·e·ty (s&#601; tiґ&#601; te) [L. satietas] 1. sufficiency. 2. full gratification of appetite or thirst, with&#8230; …

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  • 3glut — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. stuff, cram, choke, pack, jam. n. surplus, surfeit, plethora, saturation, satiety, redundance. See sufficiency. Ant., dearth. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. oversupply, overabundance, excess; see excess 1 .&#8230; …

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  • 4glut — gluttingly, adv. /glut/, v., glutted, glutting, n. v.t. 1. to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite. 2. to feed or fill to excess; cloy. 3. to flood (the market) with a particular item or service so that the supply greatly exceeds&#8230; …

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  • 5glut — [[t]glʌt[/t]] v. glut•ted, glut•ting, n. 1) to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite[/ex] 2) to feed or fill to excess; stuff: to glut oneself with candy[/ex] 3) to flood (the market) with a particular item or service so that the&#8230; …

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  • 6glut — [c]/glʌt / (say glut) verb (glutted, glutting) –verb (t) 1. to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite. 2. to feed or fill to excess; cloy. 3. to choke up: glut a channel. –verb (i) 4. to eat to satiety. –noun 5. a full supply. 6. a&#8230; …

  • 7Maaser Ani — or the Poor tithe , reflects an obligation to set aside one tenth of produce grown in the third and sixth years of the seven year Shemita (Sabbatical year) agricultural cycle for the poor, in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem. Orthodox Judaism …

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  • 8cram — I. v. a. 1. Stuff, gorge, glut, fill full, fill to repletion. 2. Crowd, press, compress. 3. Prepare for examination, grind, coach. II. v. n. 1. Eat to satiety, eat greedily, stuff, gorge or glut one s self, gluttonize. 2. (Colloq.) …

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  • 9ventromedial nucleus — n a medially located nucleus of the hypothalamus that is situated between the lateral wall of the third ventricle and the fornix and that is held to suppress the urge to eat when satiety is reached …

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  • 10Eating — Eat redirects here. For other uses of eat , or EAT as an abbreviation or acronym, see EAT (disambiguation). Feeding redirects here. For other uses, see Feeding (disambiguation). Part of a series on Meals …

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