feeding (root: feed)

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

HYPHEN

feed=ing

COUNT IN NET NET

9 in 9 verses (in OT : 5 in 5 verses) (in NT : 4 in 4 verses)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun feeding has 2 senses

feeding(n = noun.act) eating - the act of consuming food; Array

has parts: chew, chewing, manduction, mastication

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

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

is a kind of provision, supply, supplying

Derived forms verb feed₂, verb feed₁

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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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