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feed upon |
feedback |
feedback circuit |
feedback loop |
feedbag |
feeder
| feeder line
| feeding
| feeding bottle
| feeding chair
| feedlot
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun feeder has 6 senses
- feeder(n = noun.animal) Array - an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening; Array is a kind of domestic animal, domesticated animal
- feeder(n = noun.person) eater - someone who consumes food for nourishment; Array is a kind of consumer
- feeder(n = noun.object) affluent, confluent, tributary - a branch that flows into the main stream; Array is a kind of branch
- feeder(n = noun.artifact) self-feeder - a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material; "the feeder discharged feed into a trough for the livestock" is a kind of machine
- feeder(n = noun.artifact) bird feeder, birdfeeder - an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds; Array is a kind of device
- feeder(n = noun.animal) Array - an animal that feeds on a particular source of food; "a bark feeder"; "a mud feeder" is a kind of animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
has particulars: devourer, diner, dunker, glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman, gobbler, luncher, mouth, mycophage, mycophagist, nosher, snacker, omnivore, picknicker, picnicker, gorger, scoffer, vegetarian
Derived form verb feed6
Derived form verb feed3
Derived forms verb feed4, verb feed2
CIDE DICTIONARY
feeder, n.
- One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. [1913 Webster]"A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder." [1913 Webster]
- One who furnishes incentives; an encourager. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened. [1913 Webster]"With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder." [1913 Webster]
- One who fattens cattle for slaughter. [1913 Webster]
- A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically
(Hydraulic Engin.) , a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow. [1913 Webster] - A branch railroad, stage line, air route, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line. [1913 Webster]
- A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein. [1913 Webster]
- An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon. [1913 Webster]
- A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
feeder, n.
1 a person or thing that feeds.
2 a person who eats in a specified manner.
3 a child's feeding-bottle.
4 Brit. a bib for an infant.
5 a tributary stream.
6 a branch road, railway line, etc., linking outlying districts with a main communication system.
7 Electr. a main carrying electricity to a distribution point.
8 a hopper or feeding apparatus in a machine.
1 a person or thing that feeds.
2 a person who eats in a specified manner.
3 a child's feeding-bottle.
4 Brit. a bib for an infant.
5 a tributary stream.
6 a branch road, railway line, etc., linking outlying districts with a main communication system.
7 Electr. a main carrying electricity to a distribution point.
8 a hopper or feeding apparatus in a machine.
THESAURUS
feeder
Brillat-Savarin, L, Lucullus, Roscius, actor, actress, affluent, antagonist, antihero, bad guy, barnstormer, bayou, billabong, bit, bit part, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, branch, cable railway, cannibal, carnivore, cast, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, cog railway, confluent, confluent stream, connoisseur of food, consumer, cue, dendritic drainage pattern, diner, diner-out, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, eater, eater-out, effluent, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, epicure, fat part, feeder line, flesh-eater, foil, fork, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, gravity-operated railway, heavy, herbivore, hero, heroine, high liver, histrio, histrion, horse railway, hungry mouth, ingenue, junction, juvenile, lactovegetarian, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, light railroad, line, lines, luncher, main line, man-eater, matinee idol, meat-eater, metro, mime, mimer, mimic, monologist, monorail, mouth, mummer, omnivore, omophagist, pantomime, pantomimist, pantophagist, part, person, personage, phytophage, picnicker, piece, plant-eater, playactor, player, predacean, prong, protagonist, protean actor, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railway, reciter, roadbed, roadway, role, side, sidetrack, siding, soubrette, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, straight part, street railway, streetcar line, stroller, strolling player, subway, supporting character, supporting role, switchback, terminal, terminus, theatrical, thespian, title role, track, tram, tramline, trencherman, trestle, tributary, trolley line, trouper, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, underground, utility man, vegetarian, villain, walk-on, walking partROGET THESAURUS
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Provision
N provision, supply, grist, grist for the mill, subvention, resources, groceries, grocery, providing, purveyance, reinforcement, reenforcement, commissariat, provender, ensilage, viaticum, caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur, jackal, pelican, sutler, grocery shop, grocery store.
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