Feeding

Definition: Feeding

Feeding

Noun

1. The act of consuming food.

2. The act of supplying food and nourishment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "feeding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Chemical Industry

Mechanical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Feeding

Remedy

Treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis medicatrix, vis medicatrix naturae; medecine expectante; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection, phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter, feeding tube;

Crosswords: Feeding

I've gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they've kind of given up on me. I think that's what it's like with all our dreams and our nightmares, Martin, we've got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

What? Are you feeding him (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers.)

It's impressive to see a man feeding off his emotions (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker)

While I'm at home feeding little Richard (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Try peeling off your face with this and feeding it to the dogs (Hannibal; writing credit: David Mamet)

Feeding her baby she's all alone (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

Chill, is it something real, Or the magic I'm feeding off your fingers (Come Undone; performing artist: Duran Duran)

But I don't want no second hand feeding me lines (I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That; performing artist: Elton John)

I've been feeding the rhythm (Sledgehammer; performing artist: Peter Gabriel)

Everyone's beneath the trees feeding pigeons on a limb (Mighty Quinn; performing artist: The Hollies)

I got a job at a zoo feeding giraffes, but I was fired because I wasn't up to it. (references; author: unknown)

Feeding the Kitty (1914)

Capt. Boynton Feeding His Pets (1900)

Feeding Sea Lions (1900)

An Irish Peasant Scene: Feeding Pigs (1899)

Feeding Seagulls Off the Irish Coast (1899)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Feeding the Body Nourishing the Soul: Essentials of Eating for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being (reference)

• Feeding the Whole Family: Whole Foods Recipes for Babies, Young Children & Their Parents (reference)

• Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family (reference)

• The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Facts About Infant Feeding (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Feeding With Love and Good Sense (reference)

• Successful Gardening Hanging Baskets - Care and Feeding, Vol. 2 (reference)

• The Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Feeding Frenzy [LIVE] (reference)

• Feeding the Gods (reference)

• Feeding the Wheel (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 250sht A3 Cassette Feeding Module-d1 for Imageclass 2200 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• 9 oz. Feeding Bottles 3-pack (reference)

• Complete Feeding Set (reference)

• Classic Pooh Boxed Feeding Set (reference)

• 4 oz. Feeding Bottles 3-pack (reference)

• 4 Stage Feeding Seat (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A scientist is feeding living cells with media (red liquid) under a laminar flow hood. The old solution of cells and media are centrifuged with the cells remaining on the bottom. The old media is then removed and the new media is added. The laminar flow hood insures a sterile environment to prevent contamination of the cells. Credit: John Crawford (photographer).

During feeding, the flea draws viable Y. pestis organisms into its esophagus, which multiply and block the proventriculus just in front of the stomach, later forcing the flea to regurgitate infected blood unto the host when it tries to swallow. Credit: CDC.

Common characteristics of the Culex territans include a dark tarsus, a long, dark-scaled proboscis, and pale scales on apical margins. This ia a frog feeding mosquito. Credit: CDC.

Humpbacks - Megaptera novaeangliae - feeding on krill. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Roseate spoonbills - Ajaia Ajaja - can be seen feeding in the salt marsh areas of Canaveral National Seashore during the spring and fall. The Roseate spoonbill is Florida's only native pink bird, the flamingo is not native and if found in the wild is usually an escapee from local attractions. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Humpback whale feeding - straining water out to trap krill in baleen. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Group of humpback whales feeding in Iyoukeen Cove, Chichagof Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A bucket full of quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria. Quahogs feed by filtering plankton from the water, pumping up to a gallon per hour or more, depending on temperature. This feeding activity helps to improve water quality and clarity in Narragansett Bay and is an important ecological link between the Bay's water column and its benthic, or bottom-dwelling community. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Estuaries are important breeding and feeding areas for a variety of wading birds , including these great (yellow bills) and snowy egrets (black bills) on Pumpkinseed Island in Winyah Bay. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Clapper Rail, or salt-water marsh hen, spends most of its time between mangrove roots feeding on little creatures that live in estuarine waters. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The same is to be observed in all birds, (except some domestic ones, where plenty of food excuses the cock from feeding, and taking care of the young brood) whose young needing food in the nest, the cock and hen continue mates, till the young are able to use their wing, and provide for themselves. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The cotton field scurried with waking life, the quick flutter of morning birds feeding on the ground, the scamper over the clods of disturbed rabbits

We are cheered when we observe the vulture feeding on the carrion which disgusts and disheartens us, and deriving health and strength from the repast

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Health

Dengue viruses are transmitted during the feeding process. (references)

During blood feeding, the virus is injected into the animal. (references)

If swallowing is greatly impaired, a feeding tube may be needed. (references)

Business

Only one company, Servicios de Salud Integrales, offers parenteral feeding. (references)

There have been reports of children being restrained for long periods of time and being denied basic care and feeding. (references)

As an example, medical progress now permits tube feeding of premature babies at home so they may be leave the hospital sooner. (references)

Children

Korea

According to the WFP, the international community is feeding nearly every child under the age of 7 years. (references)

El Salvador

The Government has a national plan for infants designed to increase access to potable water, iodized salt, and micronutrients, and to encourage breast feeding, but all of these remain problem areas, especially among the rural poor. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

Corn is used principally in poultry feeding and to a lesser extent in livestock rations. (references)

Human Rights

Guinea

Family members and friends are responsible for feeding prisoners. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

The penitentiary administration accepts no responsibility for the care or feeding of the infants; the women receive help from local NGO's such as L'Amour en Action and the International Catholic Office for Children (BICE), a Catholic association that promotes children's rights. (references)

Indigenous People

Mexico

At year's end, the ICRC was feeding over 7,071 persons, the majority internally displaced persons (IDP's), on a continual basis. (references)

Trade

Brazil

Shortly after feeding the SISCOMEX system information concerning a specific shipment, the SISCOMEX system will indicate whether or not a "non-automatic import license" is required. (references)

Mauritius

Customs duties have also been reduced on several items, including infant feeding bottles, infant car seats and carriages, electric bicycles, magnetic tapes, rubberized textile fabrics, motor vehicle batteries and packing materials for industrial use. (references)

Women

Mauritania

One form of such mistreatment is the forced feeding of adolescent girls (gavage), which is practiced only among the Moors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "feeding": acyclic feeding ♦ beach feeding ♦ Bottle Feeding ♦ Breast Feeding ♦ demand feeding ♦ Feeding and Eating Disorders of Childhood ♦ feeding apparatus ♦ feeding attachment ♦ Feeding Behavior ♦ Feeding bottle ♦ feeding by a stomach tube ♦ feeding cake ♦ feeding chair ♦ Feeding Hills ♦ feeding mechanism ♦ Feeding Methods ♦ feeding of animals ♦ feeding time ♦ feeding trough ♦ feeding tube ♦ feeding up ♦ forced feeding ♦ forcible feeding ♦ infant feeding ♦ intravenous feeding ♦ magazine feeding attachment ♦ nasogastric feeding ♦ schedule feeding ♦ tube feeding ♦ winter feeding. Additional references.

Beginning with "feeding": feeding-bottle, feeding-ground, feeding-grounds, feeding-place, feeding-places, feeding-point, feeding-points, feeding-stuff, feeding-stuffs, feeding-time.

Ending with "feeding": bottle-feeding, breast-feeding, filter-feeding, over-feeding, spoon-feeding.

Albanian

ushqim (aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, fare, feed, food, foodstuff, grub, input, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, repast, supply, sustenance, table, tack, Tommy), të ngrëna (food, nurture, repast), ngrënie (consumption, drilling, eating). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغذي, ‏تغذية (alimentation, nourishment, nurture, nutrition, supply, sustenance), ‏الإطعام, ‏إطعام. (various references)

Bulgarian 

хранене (alimentation, feed, meal, nourishment, nurture, nutrition, sustenance), кърмене (breast feeding, nursing, suck), пасене (feed), изхранване. (various references)

Chinese 

哺养 (Fed). (various references)

Czech

krmení (fattening, feed). (various references)

Danish

fyldning (charge, charging, down flooding, filling, flooding, influx of water, plombage, plugging, stopping), foedning (feed), fodring (feed supply, nutrition), fødning/fødningsanordning, fødning, tilspændingsbevægelse (feed, feed motion, feed movement), tilfoering (feed), stoebning (cast, casting, founding, ladling, soaking, steeping), indtykning (livering), ilaegning (charging, filling), ifyldning med oese (ladling), græsning (density of herds on pasture land, feed supply, grazing, herbage, nutrition, pasturage, pasture, pasturing), ernæring (feed supply, nutrition), emnetilfoering (feed), anlaeg (aptitude, facility, fence, installation, physical plant, plant). (various references)

Dutch

werkslag (feed, feed motion, feed movement, stroke), voeding (food, nourishment), voedering (feed supply, nutrition), vellenaanleg, toevoer met gietlepel (ladling), toevoer (delivery manifold, distributor, feed), snijdende slag (feed, feed motion, feed movement), materiaaltoevoer (ladling), invoeren (import), inleggen (deposit, insert, pickle, preserve, put away, put in, stow), gelatineren (gelatinization, gelation, gelling, livering). (various references)

Esperanto

suĉbotelo (baby's bottle, feeding-bottle). (various references)

Finnish

syöttö (pass, service). (various references)

French

alimentation (feed). (various references)

German

ernährung (food, maintenance, nourishment, nutrition), Zuführung (feed, feed-pipe, sheetfeed, supply, supplying), abfütternd. (various references)

Greek 

κίνηση πρόωσης (feed, feed motion, feed movement), σίτιση, πήξιμο (livering), χύτευση με κουτάλα (ladling), τροφή ζώων (forage, stover), τροφοδότηση φούρνου (charging, filling), τροφοδοσία (catering, provisioning, victualling), τάισμα, διατροφή (alimony, diet, sustenance, sustentation). (various references)

Hebrew 

תזונה (diet, nourishment, nutrition), זינה (feed, supply), האכלה, הזנה (alimentation, nourishment, nutrition), ספיה. (various references)

Hungarian

táplálás (feed, keeping, nourishment, nutrition). (various references)

Indonesian

lawak (buffoon, feeding trough, gag, jest). (various references)

Italian

alimentazione (alimentation, catering, diet, feed, firing, supply). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ファロー鹿 (fallow deer, fan, fan club, fancy, fancy ball, fancy dress, fancy food, fancy goods, fancy store, fanfare, fan-jet, fan-out, fantastic, fantasy, feasibility study, feature, feed, feedback, feeder, feet, foot, foundation, fumble, fun, fun fair, function, function key, functor, fund, fund manager, fund trust, fundamental, fundamentals, funk, funky, phantom), 摂食 (feed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フィーディング , せっしょく (contact, eating lightly, feed, touch). (various references)

Korean 

먹이를 줌. (various references)

Manx

gee (dining, eating). (various references)

Pig Latin

eedingfay.(various references)

Portuguese

alimentação (board, chargin, eating, fare, feed, food, maintenance, nourishment, subsistence). (various references)

Romanian

hrãnire (nourishment, nutrition), cel care alimenteazã, cel care întreţine, alimentare (nourishment, nutrition), alimentaţie (alimentation, diet, dietary, feed, food, nourishment), întreţinere (keep, keeping, livelihood, maintenance, repair, support, sustenance, upkeep). (various references)

Russian 

кормление (alimentation). (various references)

Scottish

fosradh (hand feeding of cattle, pounded barkto stop leaks). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ishrana (alimentation, board, diet, nourishment, nutrition), hranjenje (alimentation, nurture). (various references)

Spanish

alimentación (alimentation, nourishment, nutrition). (various references)

Swedish

matning (feed). (various references)

Thai

การให้อาหาร. (various references)

Turkish

geçindirme (keeping, maintenance, sustentation), doyurma (impregnation, reassurance, satiation, saturation), besleme (alimentation, handmaid, lead in, nourishment, nurse, nurture, nutrition, servant girl, supply, sustenance, sustentation), bakma (attendance, look, reference, superintendence, survey, watch). (various references)

Ukrainian

їжа (aliment, bait, board, chow, chuck, eating, fare, feed, fodder, food, meat, nosh, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, nutritive, pabulum, potluck, thing, Tommy, viand, victual), харчування (aliment, alimentation, alimony, feed, food, living, meal, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, sustentation), годувальнй, живлення (nourishment, nutrition), живильний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự cho ăn. (various references)

alimoniam, alimoniarum, alimonias. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "feeding": feedings. (additional references)

Words ending with "feeding": overfeeding, refeeding, underfeeding. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Feeding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feawing, feddan, Fedin, feedbins, feening, Feering, feeting, Ferddig, Fereydun, fewing, Fieding, fieking, fleding, fleeding, fueding. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: feigned.

-1 letter: define, feeing.

-2 letters: deign, diene, dinge, feign, fidge, fiend, fined, genie.

-3 letters: defi, dene, deni, dine, ding, edge, eide, feed, fend, find, fine, geed, gene, gied, gien, need, neif, nide.

-4 letters: dee, den, die, dig, din, end, eng, fed, fee, fen, fid, fie, fig, fin, ged, gee, gen, gid, gie, gin, nee.

-5 letters: de, ed.

+1 letter: feedings, fingered.

+2 letters: befringed, deafening, defeating, defecting, defending, defensing, deferring, defleaing, redefying, refeeding, unfeigned.

+3 letters: befingered, debriefing, defecating, deflecting, federating, firefanged, frightened, gentrified, giftedness, greenfield, redefining, reedifying.

+4 letters: bedeafening, befriending, centrifuged, deafeningly, debriefings, deflowering, deforesting, fidgetiness, forefending, freeloading, overfeeding, predefining, redefeating, redefecting, unfeignedly.

+5 letters: decertifying, defeminizing, differencing, federalizing, fingerpicked, fragmentized, freestanding, frigidnesses, giftednesses, intergrafted, presignified, reconfigured, semideifying, underfeeding, ungentrified.