nutrition

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: nu=tri=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

nutrition, n. [Cf. F. nutrition. See Nutritious.].

•  In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which a living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.  [1913 Webster]

  " In this wide sense it comprehends digestion, absorption, circulation, assimilation, etc., in fact all of the steps by which the nutritive matter of the food is fitted for incorporation with the different tissues, and the changes which it undergoes after its assimilation, prior to its excretion. See Metabolism."  [1913 Webster]
•  In a more limited sense, the process by which the living tissues take up, from the blood, matters necessary either for their repair or for the performance of their healthy functions.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which nourishes; nutriment.  [1913 Webster]

  "Fixed like a plant, on his peculiar spot,
  To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nutrition, n.
1 a the process of providing or receiving nourishing substances. b food, nourishment.
2 the study of nutrients and nutrition.

Derivative

nutritional adj.

Etymology

F nutrition or LL nutritio (as NUTRIENT)

THESAURUS

nutrition

appetite, baking, barbecuing, basting, boiling, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, catering, chewing, consumption, cookery, cooking, cropping, cuisine, culinary science, deglutition, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, domestic science, eating, epulation, feasting, feeding, frying, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, grilling, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, home economics, hunger, ingestion, licking, manducation, mastication, messing, munching, nibbling, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pan-broiling, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, poaching, regalement, relishing, roasting, rumination, sauteing, savoring, searing, shirring, simmering, steeping, stewing, tasting, toasting, vegetarianism, wolfing

ROGET THESAURUS

nutrition

Aid

N aid, aidance, assistance, help, opitulation, succor, support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion, coadjuvancy, patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy, sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment, eutrophy, manna in the wilderness, food, means, ministry, ministration, subministration, accommodation, relief, rescue, help at a dead lift, supernatural aid, deus ex machina, supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits, support, adjunct, ally, aiding, auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful, coadjuvant, subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary, at one's beck, at one's beck and call, friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed, neighborly, obliging, with the aid, by the aid of, on behalf of, in behalf of, in aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of, on account of, for the sake of, on the part of, non obstante, Int, help!, save us!, to the rescue!, alterum alterius auxilio eget, God befriend us as our cause is just, at your service.