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| feeding chair
| feedlot
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| feejee
feeding (root: feed)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun feeding has 2 senses
- feeding(n = noun.act) eating - the act of consuming food; Array has parts: chew, chewing, manduction, mastication
- feeding(n = noun.act) alimentation - the act of supplying food and nourishment; Array has particulars: lactation, suckling, infant feeding, forced feeding, gavage, intravenous feeding, iv, overfeeding, spoonfeeding, hyperalimentation, total parenteral nutrition, tpn
has particulars: mycophagy, bite, chomp, browse, browsing, coprophagia, coprophagy, dining, engorgement, banqueting, feasting, graze, grazing, lunching, repletion, surfeit, supping, degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting, necrophagia, necrophagy, omophagia, scatophagy
is a kind of consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
Derived form verb feed6
is a kind of provision, supply, supplying
Derived forms verb feed2, verb feed1
CIDE DICTIONARY
feeding, n.
- the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening. [1913 Webster]
- That which is eaten; food. [1913 Webster]
- That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. [1913 Webster]
Feeding bottle. See under Bottle .
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