feeding
noun/ˈfiːdɪŋ/
Etymology By surface analysis, feed + -ing.
7 senses
- 1The act or process of giving food.
- 2An instance or session of giving food.
- 3The act or process of eating.
- 4An instance or session of eating.
- 5That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
- 6That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
- 7The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
1
The act or process of giving food.
- premium blend for feeding of dairy herds
2
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
1 more example
- […] they are nevertheless always like the lion's keeper, who, when by long patience, a thousand feedings, and a thousand clawings, he hath made a fierce lion familiar, yet never gives him meat, but with pulling back his hand, always in fear […]1750, The Universal Magazine, volume 7, page 52:
3
Usually, Said of animals The act or process of eating.
- feeding from round bales is necessary here in winter, when pasturage is ebbed
4
Usually, Said of animals An instance or session of eating.
- picked up hardware disease during a feeding outside the intended pasture
5
Dated That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
6
Dated That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
7
The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
- caution in the feeding of the No. 3 mill
- Derived terms
- 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
- Hyponyms
- bottlefeeding, bottom feeding, breastfeeding, cluster feeding, deposit feeding, filter feeding, fluid feeding, food-mass feeding, force feeding, mix feeding, tube feeding, types of feeding