Feeding

Definitions

1. The act or process of giving food.
   uncountable
2. An instance or session of giving food.
   countable
3. The act or process of eating.
   uncountable, usually
4. An instance or session of eating.
   countable, usually
5. That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
   countable, dated, uncountable
6. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
   countable, dated, uncountable
7. The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
   uncountable

Equivalents

15 more languages

العربيةإطعامالإطعامطعام

Българскихра́нене

Bosanskihranidbaхранидба

Catalàalimentació

Češtinakrmicí

Ελληνικάδιατροφικός

Suomiruokintaruokkiminensyöttäminensyöttö+ 1 more

Hrvatskihranidbaхранидба

Magyarévestáplálkozás

日本語摂食

Latinataurifer

Српскиhranidbaхранидба

Svenskafodringgödningutfodring

Kiswahiliulishaji

Українськагодівля

Examples

“premium blend for feeding of dairy herds”

“the morning feeding might differ⟳ from the evening feeding in protein content”

“optimal intervals between feedings for neonates with weak esophagogastric sphincter”

“[…] 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 […]”

“feeding from round bales is necessary here in winter, when pasturage is ebbed”

“picked up hardware disease during a feeding outside the intended pasture”

“caution in the feeding of the No. 3 mill”

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