Definitions for feeding

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feeding feed·ing

Spelling: [fee-ding]

IPA: /ˈfi dɪŋ/

Feeding is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in feeding (deefgin).

Definitions for feeding

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that feeds.
2. an instance of eating or of taking or being given nourishment.
3. grazing land.
4. food, especially for farm animals, as cattle, horses or chickens.
5. an allowance, portion, or supply of such food.
6. Informal. a meal, especially a lavish one.
7. the act of feeding.
8. the act or process of feeding a furnace, machine, etc.
9. the material, or the amount of it, so fed or supplied.
10. a feeding mechanism.
11. Electricity. feeder (def 10).
12. Theater Informal. a line spoken by one actor, the response to which by another actor is expected to cause laughter. an actor, especially a straight man, who provides such lines.
13. a local television broadcast distributed by satellite or network to a much wider audience, especially nationwide or international.
14. Digital Technology. a website or application that publishes updates from social media or news-collection websites in reverse chronological order: an XML-based web document that is updated automatically at predetermined intervals and includes descriptive titles or short descriptions and links to recent pages on a website:

Idioms

1. chain feed, to pass (work) successively into a machine in such a manner that each new piece is held in place by or connected to the one before.
2. off one's feed, Slang. reluctant to eat; without appetite. dejected; sad. not well; ill.

verb (used with object)

1. to give food to; supply with nourishment:
2. to yield or serve as food for:
3. to provide as food.
4. to furnish for consumption.
5. to satisfy; minister to; gratify:
6. to supply for maintenance or operation, as to a machine:
7. to provide with the necessary materials for development, maintenance, or operation:
8. to use (land) as pasture.
9. Theater Informal. to supply (an actor, especially a comedian) with lines or action, the responses to which are expected to elicit laughter. to provide cues to (an actor). Chiefly British. to prompt:
10. Radio and Television. to distribute (a local broadcast) via satellite or network.

verb (used without object)

1. (especially of animals) to take food; eat:
2. to be nourished or gratified; subsist:

Origin of feeding

before 900; Middle English feding, Old English fēding. See feed, -ing¹

Examples for feeding

What effect do the feeding and care of poultry have upon it as food?

He sat there watching and feeding all through the long night.

He described going to their home, feeding their dogs, and growing worried.

Give it nothing, I pray you, for it is not worth the feeding.

He has a fascinating habit of feeding himself with his paws.

Perhaps he had been feeding off the relative youth of Paul, who appeared in need of a long nap by this point.

Porter was convicted and shortly after sentenced to death by a judge who compared him to a shark in a feeding frenzy.

Louisa also devotes much of her time to feeding underprivileged children in the desolate Kurland Village in South Africa.

It's hard weather for the sheep an' a'm thinkin' this 'ill be a feeding storm.

With the help of mobility aids and a feeding tube, she lived well past her initial prognosis of death by age 4.