feed

(fēd)

v. fed (fĕd), feed·ing, feeds

v. tr.

a. To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children.

b. To provide as food or nourishment: fed fish to the cat.

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.

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.

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.

a. To move steadily, as into a machine for processing.

b. To be channeled; flow: This road feeds into the freeway.

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.

a. Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace.

b. The act of supplying such material.

a. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.

b. The aperture through which such material enters a machine.

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.

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

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feeding

(ˈfiːdɪŋ)

the act of giving food to a person or an animal

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	feeding - the act of consuming food eating chewing, mastication, chew, manduction - biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow mycophagy - 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 jaws browsing, browse - the act of feeding by continual nibbling coprophagia, coprophagy - eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity dining - the act of eating dinner engorgement - eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation banqueting, feasting - eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) grazing, graze - the act of grazing lunching - the act of eating lunch repletion, surfeit - eating until excessively full supping - ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking degustation, 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 carrion omophagia - the eating of raw food scatophagy - the eating of excrement or other filth
	2.	feeding - the act of supplying food and nourishment alimentation lactation, suckling - feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast supplying, provision, supply - the activity of supplying or providing something infant feeding - feeding an infant forced feeding, gavage - feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat intravenous feeding, IV - administration of nutrients through a vein overfeeding - excessive feeding spoonfeeding - feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon hyperalimentation, 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

alimentazione nutriente

корм

feeding

[ˈfiːdɪŋ]

A. N (= act) → alimentación f; (= meals) → comida f

B. CPD feeding bottle N (esp Brit) → biberón m
feeding frenzy N the birds engage in a feeding frenzy → los pájaros inician un frenético festín
she was caught in a media feeding frenzy → se vio convertida en el centro de una atención febril por parte de los medios de comunicación
feeding ground N (lit) → fuente f de alimentación (fig) → mina f de oro
the factory will soon be a feeding ground for lawyers → la fábrica será pronto una mina de oro para los abogados
feeding time N (at zoo) → hora f de comer; (baby's) (= time for breast feed) → hora f del pecho; (= time for bottle feed) → hora f del biberón

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feeding

[ˈfiːdɪŋ] n [person, animal] → alimentation ffeeding bottle n (British) → biberon mfeeding frenzy n
The press was in a feeding frenzy → La presse s'est déchaînée.feeding time n [breast-fed baby] → heure f de la tétée; [bottle-fed baby] → heure f du biberon; [animals] (in zoo) → heure f de nourrir les animaux

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feeding

feeding bottle

n → Flasche f

feeding cup

n → Schnabeltasse f

feeding frenzy

(lit) → Futterstreit m

(fig) the press was in a feeding → die Presse riss sich um die Story

feeding ground

n → Futterplatz m

feeding time

n (for animal) → Fütterungszeit f; (for baby) → Zeit f → für die Mahlzeit; the baby’s feeding was still an hour away → die nächste Mahlzeit des Säuglings war erst in einer Stunde fällig

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feeding

[ˈfiːdɪŋ] n → alimentazione f

feed·ing

n. alimentación;

breast- ___ → lactancia materna;

enteral ___ → ___ enteral;

___ time → horario de ___;

forced ___ → ___ forzada;

intravenous ___ → ___ intravenosa;

rectal ___ → ___ por el recto;

tube ___ → ___ por sonda.

feeding

n alimentación f; tube — alimentación por sonda