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Eating crow
Eating crow, also eat boiled crow, is a US informal idiom meaning to admit a humiliating mistake or accept defeat. It originated in an 1850 Buffalo Daily Courier humor story, not the War of 1812 tale; British equivalent: eat humble pie.
Eating disorder
Eating disorder: mental disorders involving disturbed eating and body-weight concerns, mainly anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and ARFID; 18 million cases in 2023, treated chiefly with CBT-ED and family-based therapy.
Eating Disorder Examination
The Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) is a semi-structured interview developed by Zafra Cooper and Christopher Fairburn, first published in 1987 and considered the gold standard eating disorder assessment.
Eating Disorder Examination questionnaire
The Eating Disorder Examination questionnaire (EDE-Q) is a 28-item self-report measure of eating disorder psychopathology, adapted from the EDE interview and introduced by Fairburn and Beglin in 1994.
Eating Disorder Inventory
The Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) is a self-report questionnaire measuring psychological traits and symptoms of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, introduced by Garner, Olmstead, and Polivy in 1983.
Eating live animals
Eating live animals is consuming animals still alive, chiefly live seafood such as Korean san-nakji (산낙지) octopus or Japanese ikizukuri fish; notable for choking and Vibrio risks, partial bans, and animal-welfare debates.
Eating of non-nutritive substances
Eating of non-nutritive substances, ICD-11 code MB29.2, is the behavior called pica in DSM-5-TR: persistent eating of non-food items such as clay, ice, starch, or hair for over one month, excluding children under two and culturally sanctioned practice.
Eating Raoul
Eating Raoul is Paul Bartel's 1982 American black comedy, also called a cult dark comedy, in which Paul and Mary Bland kill swingers with a skillet to fund a restaurant, with Robert Beltran as Raoul.
Eating reflex epilepsy
Eating reflex epilepsy (eating epilepsy, ORPHA:166418) is a rare reflex epilepsy in which seizures are triggered by eating, chewing, or food-related stimuli. Onset typically in the second decade, male predominance, focal impaired-awareness seizures, temporolimbic or perisylvian onset.
Eating the Blame
"Eating the Blame" is the fourth episode of Fargo season 1, also called "Die verschluckte Schuld", aired May 6, 2014. Written by Noah Hawley, directed by Randall Einhorn; its 1987 flashback ties the series to the 1996 film via Stavros Milos finding Carl Showalter's buried ransom money.
Eating utensil etiquette
Eating utensil etiquette covers rules for using knives, forks, spoons, chopsticks, and hands at the table. Key facts: pre-16th-century Europe lacked eating utensils; the fork spread via Catherine de' Medici; à la russe service drove Victorian cutlery complexity; norms vary sharply by region.
Eating your own dog food
Eating your own dog food, or dogfooding, is the practice of a company using its own product internally as a customer would, to expose defects before release.
Eaton
Eaton (Eaton-by-Tarporley), Cheshire: village with the only known Roman villa in Cheshire, a winged-corridor villa at SJ 57176341 excavated 1980-82, occupied from about AD 170-200 to the late fourth century.
Eaton Corporation
Eaton Corporation is an Irish-incorporated power management company that designs and manufactures electrical, aerospace, and vehicle power systems, founded in 1911 and serving customers in 180 countries.
Eaton Fire
The Eaton Fire was a January 2025 wildfire in Altadena and Pasadena, California, also called the Eaton Canyon fire; it burned 14,021 acres, destroyed 9,419 structures, killed 19, and was caused by arcing on an idle Southern California Edison tower.
Eaton Hall, Cheshire
Eaton Hall, the Cheshire country house of the Grosvenor family, Dukes of Westminster, has had four successive houses since 1675; the present one dates from 1971.
Eaton House Fort
Eaton House Fort, also called Eaton House Roman Fort, is a Roman auxiliary fort near Pennocrucium, Staffordshire, about 50 m south of Watling Street; almost square at about 150 m per side, double-ditched, identified in 1965 and scheduled in 1973.
Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting
The Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting: on June 8, 2017, employee Randy Stair (Andrew Blaze) killed three coworkers with shotguns at the Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania supermarket, then killed himself.
Eaton Vance Cash Collateral Fund LLC
Eaton Vance Cash Collateral Fund LLC is a Delaware pooled investment fund organized in 2006 and based in Boston, reinvesting cash collateral from Eaton Vance's securities lending under money-market standards.
Eaton Vance Institutional Senior Loan Fund
The Eaton Vance Institutional Senior Loan Fund is a Cayman Islands pooled investment fund managed by Eaton Vance Management of Boston, investing in senior secured floating-rate loans.
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is a city at the confluence of the Eau Claire and Chippewa Rivers; incorporated in 1872, it is the seventh-largest city in Wisconsin.
Eau de Cologne
Eau de Cologne, or Kölnisch Wasser, is a lightly concentrated citrus fragrance created in Cologne in 1709 by the Italian perfumer Johann Maria Farina, later the generic name for dilute fresh fragrances.
Eau de Paris
Eau de Paris is the public water company of the City of Paris, serving about 3 million users and operating the service since January 2010.
Eau de toilette
Eau de toilette, also called toilet water, is an alcohol-based fragrance with 5 to 15 percent perfume oil, between eau de cologne and eau de parfum in strength.
Eau de vie
Eau de vie (French for 'water of life', from aqua vitae) is a clear, unaged fruit brandy distilled from fermented fruit other than grapes, in styles such as kirsch, poire Williams and mirabelle; in broader French usage the term covers any distilled spirit, including Cognac and Armagnac.
Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland (1944–2020) was an Irish poet who brought women's domestic lives and their exclusion from national history into Irish poetry, becoming a major figure in Irish literature.
Eaves
Eaves are the edges of a roof that overhang a building's exterior walls, moving runoff clear of the siding and shading windows; the sloped gable edges are the rake.
Eavesdropping
Eavesdropping is unauthorized interception of private conversations or data transmissions. Covers acoustic bugs, wiretapping, man-in-the-middle network attacks, acoustic side channels, and the legal frameworks governing surveillance in the US and Europe.
Eavor
Eavor is a Calgary-based geothermal energy company that develops the Eavor-Loop, a closed-loop geothermal system first fed into the public grid in Geretsried, Germany, in December 2025.
Eawag
Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, is Switzerland's federal water research institute, founded in 1936 and based in Dübendorf near Zurich.