feeding
IPA: fˈidɪŋ
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of giving food.
- (countable) An instance or session of giving food.
- (uncountable, usually said of animals) The act or process of eating.
- (countable, usually said of animals) An instance or session of eating.
- (dated) That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
- (dated) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
- (uncountable) The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
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Examples of "feeding" in Sentences
- IV. iv.169 (339,2) [a worthy feeding] I conceive _feeding_ to be a
- BRODSKY: Well, it ` s like feeding -- what we call feeding the beast, to some extent.
- Officials bewailed what they called the feeding of false information to certain quarters, which are now questioning the NIA project.
- Their goal in feeding these people alarming lies was merely to harden opposition to Obama, to rouse up some street theater with the tea baggers, and to bring the yokels out to vote.
- An idea that could be revived as third world countries need revenue and cost of feeding is way down, so pay that country a small fee, it beats the Dickens era and the rotting hulk scheme.
- Interestingly, the term feeding frenzy is based on accounts of groups of sharks making passes at their victims and becoming so passionate that sometimes they mistakenly take a bite out of each other.
- Wisconsin Deer Baiting and Wildlife Feeding Regulations [PDF 243KB] pamphlet provides the regulations that are in place for counties where deer baiting and feeding is banned, as well as the regulations that have been developed in the counties where deer baiting and feeding is allowed, but regulated.
- Jonny said: For me personally, it has been important that this has always been an aspiration of ours and although it has its basis in sport and we carry that in the functional side of the clothing tailoring, it is not about a short term feeding off the back of anything that has happened to me and my career of rugby.
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