Food vs. Fare — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Food and Fare
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Food
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.
Fare
A fare is the fee paid by a passenger for use of a public transport system: rail, bus, taxi, etc. In the case of air transport, the term airfare is often used.
Food
Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth
Music is food for the soul
Baby foods
Food shortages
We need food and water
They had eaten their food and slept
Fare
The money paid for a journey on public transport
We should go to Seville, but we cannot afford the air fare
Food
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.
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Fare
A range of food of a particular type
Traditional Scottish fare
Food
A specified kind of nourishment
Breakfast food.
Plant food.
Fare
Perform in a specified way in a particular situation or over a particular period
The party fared badly in the elections
Food
Nourishment eaten in solid form
Food and drink.
Fare
Travel
A knight fares forth
Food
Something that nourishes or sustains in a way suggestive of physical nourishment
Food for thought.
Fare
To get along
How are you faring with your project?.
Food
(uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
The innkeeper brought them food and drink.
Fare
To happen or develop
How does it fare with you?.
Food
(countable) A foodstuff.
Fare
To travel; go.
Food
Anything that nourishes or sustains.
The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.
Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
Fare
To dine; eat.
Food
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.
Fare
A transportation charge, as for a bus.
Food
Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
This may prove food to my displeasure.
In this moment there is life and foodFor future years.
Fare
A passenger transported for a fee.
Food
To supply with food.
Fare
Food and drink; diet
Simple home-cooked fare.
Food
Any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue
Fare
(obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
Food
Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment;
Food and drink
Fare
(countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.
Train fare
Bus fare
Taxi fare
Food
Anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
Fare
(countable) A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
Fare
(uncountable) Food and drink.
Fare
(uncountable) Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.
Fare
A prostitute's client.
Fare
To go, travel.
Behold! A knight fares forth.
Fare
(intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
Fare
To eat, dine.
Fare
To happen well, or ill.
We shall see how it will fare with him.
Fare
(intransitive) To move along; proceed; progress; advance
We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.
Fare
To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
So on he fares, and to the border comesOf Eden.
Fare
To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
I bid you most heartily well to fare.
So fared the knight between two foes.
Fare
To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
There was a certain rich man which . . . fared sumptuously every day.
Fare
To happen well, or ill; - used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
Fare
To behave; to conduct one's self.
She ferde [fared] as she would die.
Fare
A journey; a passage.
That nought might stay his fare.
Fare
The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
Fare
Ado; bustle; business.
The warder chid and made fare.
Fare
Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
What fare? what news abroad ?
Fare
Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
Fare
The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
Fare
The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
Fare
An agenda of things to do;
They worked rapidly down the menu of reports
Fare
The sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
Fare
A paying (taxi) passenger
Fare
The food and drink that are regularly consumed
Fare
Proceed or get along;
How is she doing in her new job?
How are you making out in graduate school?
He's come a long way
Fare
Eat well
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