Food vs. Sustenance — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Food and Sustenance
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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.
Sustenance
Sustenance can refer to any means of subsistence or livelihood.
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
Sustenance
The supporting of life or health; maintenance or means of livelihood
The factory provides sustenance for half the town.
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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Sustenance
Something, especially food, that sustains life or health
Looking for sustenance in the kitchen.
Food
A specified kind of nourishment
Breakfast food.
Plant food.
Sustenance
Something that sustains something else; essential support
Researchers seeking financial sustenance.
Food
Nourishment eaten in solid form
Food and drink.
Sustenance
Something that provides support or nourishment.
Food
Something that nourishes or sustains in a way suggestive of physical nourishment
Food for thought.
Sustenance
The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.
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.
Sustenance
That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance.
For lying is thy sustenance, thy food.
Food
(countable) A foodstuff.
Sustenance
A source of materials to nourish the body
Food
Anything that nourishes or sustains.
The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.
Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
Sustenance
The financial means whereby one lives;
Each child was expected to pay for their keep
He applied to the state for support
He could no longer earn his own livelihood
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.
Sustenance
The act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence;
They were in want of sustenance
Fishing was their main sustainment
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.
Food
To supply with food.
Food
Any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue
Food
Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment;
Food and drink
Food
Anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
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