feeding
English
A pair of cattle feeding
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfiːdɪŋ/
Verb
feeding
- present participle of feed
Noun
feeding (plural feedings)
- An instance of giving food.
- 1750, The Universal Magazine (volume 7, page 52)
- […] they are nevertheless always like the lion's keeper, who, when by long patience, a thousand feedings, and a thousand clawings, he hath made a fierce lion familiar, yet never gives him meat, but with pulling back his hand, always in fear […]
- 1750, The Universal Magazine (volume 7, page 52)
- An instance of eating (usually said of animals).
- (dated) That which is eaten; food.
- (dated) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pastureland.
- The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
Derived terms
Terms derived from feeding
- bottom feeding
- deposit feeding
- filter feeding
- fluid feeding
- food-mass feeding
- force feeding
- feeding frenzy
- feeding tube
Translations
an instance of giving food
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an instance of eating
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Anagrams
- feigned