Sup vs. Consume — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sup and Consume
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Definitions
Sup
To eat or drink (something) or engage in eating or drinking by taking small swallows or mouthfuls
Supped the hot soup.
Supped away daintily.
Consume
To take in as food; eat or drink up.
Sup
To eat an evening meal; have supper.
Consume
To expend; use up
Engines that consume less fuel.
A project that consumed most of my time and energy.
Sup
A small swallow or mouthful of liquid food; a sip.
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Consume
To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.
Sup
Used as an informal greeting.
Consume
To waste; squander.
Sup
To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
Consume
To destroy totally; ravage
Flames that consumed the house.
A body consumed by cancer.
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Sup
To take supper.
Consume
To absorb; engross
Consumed with jealousy.
Sup
A sip; a small amount of food or drink.
Consume
To purchase economic goods and services
A society that consumes as fast as it produces.
Sup
(informal) Superintendent.
Consume
(transitive) To use up.
The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
Sup
(mathematics) Supremum, upper limit.
Consume
(transitive) To eat.
Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
Sup
Supplement.
Consume
(transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
Desire consumed him.
Sup
(Cambridge University slang) A supervision.
Consume
(transitive) To destroy completely.
The building was consumed by fire.
Sup
(slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)
— Sup?
— Not much.
— Not much.
Consume
To waste away slowly.
Sup
(physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.
Consume
To trade money for good or services as an individual.
In a materialistic society, individuals are taught to consume, consume, consume.
If you consume this product while in Japan, you may be subject to consumption tax.
Sup
To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.
There I'll supBalm and nectar in my cup.
Consume
(transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
The Internet has changed the way we consume news.
Sup
To eat the evening meal; to take supper.
I do entreat that we may sup together.
Consume
To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
If he were putting to my house the brandThat shall consume it.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume.
Let me alone . . . that I may consume them.
Sup
To treat with supper.
Sup them well and look unto them all.
Consume
To waste away slowly.
Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire,Consume away in sighs.
Sup
A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip.
Tom Thumb had got a little sup.
Consume
Eat immoderately;
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
Sup
A small amount of liquid food;
A sup of ale
Consume
Serve oneself to, or consume regularly;
Have another bowl of chicken soup!
I don't take sugar in my coffee
Sup
Take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon
Consume
Spend extravagantly;
Waste not, want not
Consume
Destroy completely;
The fire consumed the building
Consume
Use up (resources or materials);
This car consumes a lot of gas
We exhausted our savings
They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
Consume
Engage fully;
The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy
