forage
to search for food
TRANSLATION
forage = nach Futter suchen, herumstöbern, plündern forage = das Viehfutter, die Futtersuche --- GOOGLE INDEX forage: approximately 24,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Songbirds stop to FORAGE on their migrations from South America to the Arctic and back again.
(The Guardian)
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When too many bees begin to FORAGE prematurely, the amount of food brought back to the hive declines.
(Nature magazine)
(The Guardian)
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When too many bees begin to FORAGE prematurely, the amount of food brought back to the hive declines.
(Nature magazine)
Did you
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forage
verb
- to go searching, especially for food
noun
- food grown for horses and farm animals
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Did You Know
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The verb forage is from the noun forage (Anglo-Latin foragium), an early 14th century word meaning "food for cattle or horses," by way of the Old French forrage, "fodder, foraging, pillaging, looting." The sense of "a roving in search of provisions" in English is from the late 15th century.
Forage is typically used to describe animals. If you see birds, squirrels, rabbits or other animals roaming around your garden looking for things to eat (grass, insects, worms), then they are foraging.
Those sometimes annoying pigeons one sees at rail stations, although they are often busy dirtying up the place with their "personal business," spend most of their time foraging for leftover food like sandwich crumbs and chips.
Although there was a time when humans foraged in the fields and forests like animals, modern societies limit foraging to supermarkets and the refrigerator at home.
Forage can also be used in more of a figurative sense to mean generally searching for something, such as rooting through your basement or attic for some long-lost item or looking for a new food recipe on the Internet.
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SYNONYMS
verb
comb, hunt, rummage, scour, scrounge, seek
noun
animal food, barley, fodder, grub, hay, pasturage, provisions, vittles
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"Late summer is the best time to forage for mushrooms in the forest."
verb
- to go searching, especially for food
noun
- food grown for horses and farm animals
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Did You Know
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The verb forage is from the noun forage (Anglo-Latin foragium), an early 14th century word meaning "food for cattle or horses," by way of the Old French forrage, "fodder, foraging, pillaging, looting." The sense of "a roving in search of provisions" in English is from the late 15th century.
Forage is typically used to describe animals. If you see birds, squirrels, rabbits or other animals roaming around your garden looking for things to eat (grass, insects, worms), then they are foraging.
Those sometimes annoying pigeons one sees at rail stations, although they are often busy dirtying up the place with their "personal business," spend most of their time foraging for leftover food like sandwich crumbs and chips.
Although there was a time when humans foraged in the fields and forests like animals, modern societies limit foraging to supermarkets and the refrigerator at home.
Forage can also be used in more of a figurative sense to mean generally searching for something, such as rooting through your basement or attic for some long-lost item or looking for a new food recipe on the Internet.
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SYNONYMS
verb
comb, hunt, rummage, scour, scrounge, seek
noun
animal food, barley, fodder, grub, hay, pasturage, provisions, vittles
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Late summer is the best time to forage for mushrooms in the forest."
