A feeder road, railway, or river is a smaller one that leads to a more important one.
...the feeder road leading to the airport.
2. countable noun [usually NOUN noun]
Feeder airline and railway services connect major routes and local destinations.
...a feeder to British Airways's transatlantic destinations.
3. countable noun [oft NOUN noun]
A feeder school or team provides students or players for a larger or more important one.
...children coming up from two infant feeder schools.
4. countable noun [oft noun NOUN]
A feeder is a container that you fill with food for birds or animals.
feeder in British English
(ˈfiːdə)
noun
1.
a person or thing that feeds or is fed
2.
a child's feeding bottle or bib
3. agriculture, mainly US and Canadian
a head of livestock being fattened for slaughter
4.
a person or device that feeds the working material into a system or machine
5.
a tributary channel, esp one that supplies a reservoir or canal with water
6.
a.
a road, service, etc, that links secondary areas to the main traffic network
b.
(as modifier)
a feeder bus
7.
a.
a transmission line connecting an aerial to a transmitter or receiver
b.
a power line for transmitting electrical power from a generating station to a distribution network
feeder in American English
(ˈfidər)
noun
1.
a person or thing that feeds
; specif.,
a.
a device that feeds material into a machine
b.
a device that supplies food to animals or birds
2.
an animal, esp. a steer, being fattened
3.
anything that supplies or leads into something else; tributary; specif., a branch transportation line (in full feeder line)
4. Electricity
a conductor supplying current or signals to a substation, antenna, etc.
feeder in Mechanical Engineering
(fidər)
Word forms: (regular plural) feeders
noun
(Mechanical engineering: Manufacturing and assembly)
A feeder is a person or device that feeds a material into a system or machine.
Film cameras use more energy than digital ones because they need a film feeder.
As each part is machined, the cutting tool creates a final cut to separate the partfrom the bar stock, and the feeder continues to feed the bar for the next part.
A feeder is a person or device that feeds a material into a system or machine.
Examples of 'feeder' in a sentence
feeder
The smaller clubs are effectively feeder clubs.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Smaller counties do not have to be feeder clubs.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It is the idea of the feeder club.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Of course they also hang in vertical lines on garden feeders.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They have effectively become a feeder system.
The Sun (2015)
All contact was through these feeder funds that supplied him with the capital.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Half the places are given to the best performers in various feeder series and individual endurance races.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Clearly schools need to consult parents before making any changes to existing practice and to liaise with their feeder and neighbouring schools.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Given that this is the feeder system from which he must select, is this a concern?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Regional airlines have already begun to hook up with their alliance partners and send feeder traffic to other European hubs.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
You could have feeder teams.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
You become a feeder club.
The Sun (2008)
The under-21 league has to be improved, the loan system reformed and feeder clubs considered.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Working with other schools is an effective means of staff training, and academies for secondary pupils will benefit if their feeder schools improve their standards.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
England's new regime is keen to end the view that one-day cricket is a glorified feeder system.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Part of this is because most top African players are based abroad, which leaves the domestic leagues to serve as perennial feeder clubs.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It nests in forests, but in its winter quarters in America it is common in gardens and is a regular visitor to feeders and bird tables.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
If it is a feeder club, I could not call a player up to my first team until the transfer window.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In other languages
feeder
British English: feeder ADJECTIVE
A feeder road, railway, or river is a smaller one that leads to a more important one.
...the feeder road leading to the airport.
American English: feeder
Brazilian Portuguese: afluente
Chinese: 支线
European Spanish: secundario
French: d'accès
German: Zubringer-
Italian: secondario
Japanese: 支線
Korean: 진입하는
European Portuguese: afluente
Latin American Spanish: secundario
All related terms of 'feeder'
bird feeder
a device, usually a tube of mesh , containing food suitable for birds, which can be suspended outdoors
form feeder
a device that mechanically feeds paper into a printer
self-feeder
any machine or device capable of automatically supplying materials when and where they are needed , esp one for making measured quantities of food constantly available to farm livestock
bottom feeder
a fish that feeds on material at the bottom of a river, lake, sea, etc
feeder school
a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
feeder stream
a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal , etc
filter feeder
an animal that feeds by filtering small organisms or food particles from the water or air, as a clam , baleen whale , or sponge
sheet feeder
a device that feeds paper into a printer one sheet at a time
carrion feeder
any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
feeder primary school
a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school