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EAT or eat may refer to:

• Eating, the process of consuming food, for the purpose of providing for the nutritional needs of an animal

The term may also refer to:

• Elenium and Tamuli, two trilogies by David Eddings that form a continuous story

Eat (styled as EAT.) is a chain of sandwich shops with over 110 branches in the UK, the majority in London.

Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with  energy and to allow for . Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus. Fungi digest organic matter outside of their bodies as opposed to animals that digest their food inside their bodies. For humans, eating is an activity of daily living. Some individuals may limit their amount of nutritional intake. This may be a result of a lifestyle choice, due to hunger or famine, as part of a diet or as religious fasting.