Sap vs. Eat — What's the Difference?

Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.

Put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it

The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying food and other substances to the various tissues.

Light food or snacks

See cell sap.

To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.

Health and energy; vitality

To take in and absorb as food

(Slang) A foolish or gullible person.

To include habitually or by preference in one's diet

A covered trench or tunnel dug to a point near or within an enemy position.

To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting

A leather-covered bludgeon with a short, flexible shaft or strap, used as a hand weapon.

To erode or corrode

To drain (a tree, for example) of sap.

To produce by eating

To deplete or weaken gradually

(Slang) To absorb the cost or expense of

To undermine the foundations of (a fortification).

(Informal) To bother or annoy

To dig a sap.

Vulgar slang To perform cunnilingus or anilingus on. Often used with out.

To hit or knock out with a sap.

To consume food.

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

To have or take a meal.

(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

To exercise a consuming or eroding effect

Any juice.

To cause persistent annoyance or distress

(figurative) Vitality.

To ingest; to be ingested.

A naive person; a simpleton

(ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.

A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

(intransitive) To consume a meal.

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

To be eaten.

(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").

To exhaust the vitality of.

To use up.

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

To destroy, consume, or use up.

(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.

To pierce with saps.

To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.

(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.

(transitive) To gradually weaken.

To cause (someone) to worry.

(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

To take the loss in a transaction.

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

(ambitransitive) To corrode or erode.

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

To be very good; to rule; to rock.

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

(colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

To pierce with saps.

To chew and swallow as food; to devour; - said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.

A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

A person who lacks good judgment

To make one's way slowly.

A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

Take in solid food;

Deplete;

Eat a meal; take a meal;

Excavate the earth beneath

Take in food; used of animals only;

Use up (resources or materials);

Worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way;

Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid;