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Meaning of Feeding | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2 Frequent
ˈfiːdɪŋ

Definitions

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

Equivalents

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”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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