noun
Meaning 1
The act or process of giving food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- premium blend for feeding of dairy herds
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
feeding
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/ˈfiːdɪŋ/
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CMU ARPABET: F IY1 D IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An instance or session of giving food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- the morning feeding might differ from the evening feeding in protein content
- optimal intervals between feedings for neonates with weak esophagogastric sphincter
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The act or process of eating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- feeding from round bales is necessary here in winter, when pasturage is ebbed
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An instance or session of eating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, usually
Examples
- picked up hardware disease during a feeding outside the intended pasture
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 7
The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- caution in the feeding of the No. 3 mill
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
present participle and gerund of feed
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
the act of consuming food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: eating
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
Narrower terms: mycophagy, bite, chomp, browse, browsing, coprophagy, coprophagia, dining, engorgement, feasting, banqueting, graze, grazing, lunching, repletion, surfeit, supping, tasting, savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation, necrophagia, necrophagy, omophagia, scatophagy
noun
Meaning 10
the act of supplying food and nourishment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: alimentation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: provision, supply, supplying
Narrower terms: suckling, lactation, infant feeding, forced feeding, gavage, intravenous feeding, IV, overfeeding, spoonfeeding, total parenteral nutrition, TPN, hyperalimentation
History
Etymology
By surface analysis, feed + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chichewa: kudyétsa — the act or process of giving food
- Arabic: إِطْعَام (ʔiṭʕām) — an instance of giving food
- Catalan: alimentació — an instance of giving food
- Hebrew: הַאֲכָלָה — an instance of giving food
- Hungarian: etetés — an instance of giving food
- Hungarian: megetetés — an instance of giving food
- Hungarian: táplálás — an instance of giving food
- Russian: кормле́ние (kormlénije) — an instance of giving food
- Russian: кормёжка (kormjóžka) — an instance of giving food
- Spanish: alimentación — an instance of giving food
- Swahili: ulishaji — an instance of giving food
- Bulgarian: хранене (hranene) — an instance of eating
- Hungarian: táplálkozás — an instance of eating
- Hungarian: evés — an instance of eating
- Russian: пита́ние (pitánije) — an instance of eating
- Spanish: alimentación — an instance of eating
- Hungarian: táplálás — the loading of material into a machine that will process it
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