Food vs. Animal — What's the Difference?

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism. Food is usually of plant, animal or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals.

Animals (also called Metazoa) are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.

Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth

A living organism that feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli

Material, especially carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, that an organism uses for energy, growth, and maintaining the processes of life. Plants, algae, and some bacteria make their own food through photosynthesis, while animals and most other organisms obtain food by consuming other organisms or organic matter.

Relating to or characteristic of animals

A specified kind of nourishment

Relating to or denoting the pole or extremity of an embryo that contains the more active cytoplasm in the early stages of development.

Nourishment eaten in solid form

Any of numerous multicellular eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Metazoa (or Animalia) that ingest food rather than manufacturing it themselves and are usually able to move about during at least part of their life cycle. Sponges, jellyfishes, flatworms, mollusks, arthropods, and vertebrates are animals.

Something that nourishes or sustains in a way suggestive of physical nourishment

An animal organism other than a human, especially a mammal.

(uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

A person who behaves in a bestial or brutish manner.

(countable) A foodstuff.

A human considered with respect to their physical nature, as opposed to rational or spiritual nature.

Anything that nourishes or sustains.

A person having a specified aptitude or set of interests

What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.

Relating to, characteristic of, or derived from an animal or animals, especially when not human

Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.

Relating to the physical as distinct from the rational or spiritual nature of people

To supply with food.

(science) A eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).

Any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue

(loosely) Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.

Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment;

Any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).

Anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

(figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.

(informal) A person of a particular type.

, thing.

Of or relating to animals.

Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.

Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.

Excellent

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.

Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

A living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Of the appetites and passions of the body;

Of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals;