feeding

feed

F0067400 (fēd) v. fed (fĕd), feed·ing, feeds v. tr. 1. a. To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children. b. To provide as food or nourishment: fed fish to the cat. 2. a. To serve as food for: The turkey is large enough to feed a dozen. b. To produce food for: The valley feeds an entire county. 3. a. To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer. b. To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation: Melting snow feeds the reservoirs. c. To transmit (media content) by means of a communications network or satellite, as for processing or distribution. 4. a. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid. b. To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions. 5. To supply as a cue: feed lines to an actor. 6. Sports To pass a ball or puck to (a teammate), especially to set up a scoring chance. v. intr. 1. To eat. Used of animals: pigs feeding at a trough. 2. To be nourished or supported: an ego that feeds on flattery. 3. a. To move steadily, as into a machine for processing. b. To be channeled; flow: This road feeds into the freeway. n. 1. a. Food for animals, especially livestock. b. The amount of such food given at one time. 2. Informal A meal, especially a large one: We had a great feed at the restaurant. 3. The act of providing food, especially to an animal: food given at one feed. 4. a. Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace. b. The act of supplying such material. 5. a. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine. b. The aperture through which such material enters a machine. 6. a. The transmission or conveyance of published content, as by satellite, on the internet, or by broadcast over a network of stations. b. A signal or program made by means of such transmission: The satellite feed was garbled due to sunspot activity. 7. Sports A pass of a ball or puck, especially to set up a scoring chance. Idiom: be off (one's) feed To have lost one's appetite: The dog is off its feed this week.

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[Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan; see pā- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

feeding

(ˈfiːdɪŋ) nthe act of giving food to a person or an animal

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	feeding - the act of consuming food eatingchewing, mastication, chew, manduction - biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallowmycophagy - the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)chomp, bite - the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jawsbrowsing, browse - the act of feeding by continual nibblingcoprophagia, coprophagy - eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanitydining - the act of eating dinnerengorgement - eating ravenously or voraciously to satiationbanqueting, feasting - eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)grazing, graze - the act of grazinglunching - the act of eating lunchrepletion, surfeit - eating until excessively fullsupping - ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinkingdegustation, relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting - taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most"necrophagia, necrophagy - feeding on corpses or carrionomophagia - the eating of raw foodscatophagy - the eating of excrement or other filth
	2.	feeding - the act of supplying food and nourishmentalimentationlactation, suckling - feeding an infant by giving suck at the breastsupplying, provision, supply - the activity of supplying or providing somethinginfant feeding - feeding an infantforced feeding, gavage - feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eatintravenous feeding, IV - administration of nutrients through a veinoverfeeding - excessive feedingspoonfeeding - feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoonhyperalimentation, total parenteral nutrition, TPN - administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes

Translations

Fressenδιατροφήalimentaciónalimentationalimentazionenutrienteкорм