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feed
(fēd)v. fed (fĕd), feed·ing, feeds
v. tr.
1.
a. To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children.
b. To provide as food or nourishment: fed fish to the cat.
2.
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.
3.
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.
4.
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.
3.
a. To move steadily, as into a machine for processing.
b. To be channeled; flow: This road feeds into the freeway.
n.
Idiom: 1.
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.
4.
a. Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace.
b. The act of supplying such material.
5.
a. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.
b. The aperture through which such material enters a machine.
6.
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.
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)n
the act of giving food to a person or an animal
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| Noun | 1. |  feeding - the act of consuming food 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) 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) lunching - the act of eating lunch 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 nourishmentinfant 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 |
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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
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
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
feeding
[ˈfiːdɪŋ] n [person, animal] → alimentation ffeeding bottle n (British) → biberon mfeeding frenzy nThe 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
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
feeding
:feeding bottle
n → Flasche f
feeding cup
n → Schnabeltasse f
feeding frenzy
feeding ground
n → Futterplatz m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
feed·ing
n. alimentación;
breast- ___ → lactancia materna;
enteral ___ → ___ enteral;
___ time → horario de ___;
forced ___ → ___ forzada;
intravenous ___ → ___ intravenosa;
rectal ___ → ___ por el recto;
tube ___ → ___ por sonda.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
feeding
n alimentación f; tube — alimentación por sondaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.