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feeding

verb
/ˈfiːdɪŋ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, feed + -ing.

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of feed

  2. The act or process of giving food.

    • premium blend for feeding of dairy herds

  3. An instance or session of giving food.

    • the morning feeding might differ from the evening feeding in protein content
    • optimal intervals between feedings for neonates with weak esophagogastric sphincter
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. The act or process of eating.

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

    2. An instance or session of eating.

      • picked up hardware disease during a feeding outside the intended pasture

    3. That which is eaten

      That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.

    4. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.

    5. The loading of material into a machine that will process it.

      • caution in the feeding of the No. 3 mill

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Derived

acquisition feeding time, allofeeding, antifeeding, care and feeding, feeding bottle, feeding chair, feeding frenzy, Feeding Hills, feeding stuff, feedingstuff, feeding tube, like feeding time at the zoo, nonfeeding, postfeeding, tube feeding syndrome, unfeeding

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at feeding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01feeding02session03court04favor05regard06reference07provided08provide09establish10stable

A definitional loop anchored at feeding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at feeding

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA