feeding
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Definitions offeeding
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
Example: "Feed the dog every evening."
- To eat (usually of animals).
Example: "Spiders feed on gnats and flies."
- To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
Example: "Feed the fish to the dolphins."
- To give to a machine to be processed.
Example: "Feed the paper gently into the document shredder."
- To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- To supply with something.
Example: "Springs feed ponds with water."
- To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
Example: "If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep."
- To pass to.
- (of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
Example: "Nasalization feeds raising."
- (of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
- An instance of giving food.
- An instance of eating (usually said of animals).
- That which is eaten; food.
- That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pastureland.
- The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
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