Word Finder - feeding

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(ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

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Feed the dog every evening.

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To eat (usually of animals).

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Spiders feed on gnats and flies.

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To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.

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Feed the fish to the dolphins.

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To give to a machine to be processed.

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Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.

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To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).

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To supply with something.

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Springs feed ponds with water.

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To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.

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If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.

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To pass to.

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(of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.

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Nasalization feeds raising.

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(of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.

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An instance of giving food.

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An instance of eating (usually said of animals).

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That which is eaten; food.

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That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pastureland.

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The loading of material into a machine that will process it.

Who are you feeding on?

There's no river feeding into this lake.

She finished feeding the horses and let all of them out except Casper.

Monday morning while she was feeding the horses, Brutus was watching the hills with unusual interest.

He'd forced her to stay awake through it all despite her fainting spells, tearing open her veins and feeding until she was too weak to fight him.

They were feeding the horses and Jonathan was out exercising Dawn.

Carmen and Felipa were engrossed in feeding the twins.

He set his course to intercept while contemplating breaking his rule about feeding on men.

There was no question in her mind that Brutus had been feeding on the carcass, but did he kill it?

Surely Alex was feeding him properly.

The next morning when she was feeding the horses, Brutus wandered up with something in his mouth.

Feeding on emotion, his tone became harsh.

On Sunday after church they were feeding the horses when they began a friendly frolic.

The mention of feeding made his stomach roar to life.

When he finished carefully feeding it to her, he curled up beside his mother under the heavenly cloak.

Considering the wide differences between the two groups in the size and external characters, and in the mode of life, including the mode of feeding, it is indeed surprising that in every important organ the two groups should show a fundamental morphological identity.

She read widely though unsystematically, studying philosophy in Aristotle, Leibnitz, Locke and Condillac, and feeding her imagination with Rene and Childe Harold.

There are even records of an Anaphothrips, when cut off from its normal vegetable foodsupply, becoming cannibalistic and feeding on its own species.

It is possibly for the purpose of feeding on parasitic mites that book-scorpions lodge themselves beneath the wing-cases of large tropical beetles; and the same explanation, in default of a better, may be extended to their well-known and oft-recorded habit of seizing hold of the legs of horse-flies or other two-winged insects.

Armadillos are omnivorous, feeding on roots, insects, worms, reptiles and carrion, and are mostly, though not universally, Peba Armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta).

The single species, which is a native of western and southern Australia, is about the size of an English squirrel, to which its long bushy tail gives it some resemblance; but it lives entirely on the ground, especially in sterile sandy districts, feeding on ants.

All are animals of small or moderate size and arboreal habits, feeding on a vegetable or mixed diet, and inhabiting Australia, Papua and the Moluccan Islands.

They subsisted miserably on the bounty of some natives, and partly by feeding on the seeds of a plant called nardoo.

In the Wheatstone automatic apparatus three levers are placed side by side, each acting on a set of small punches and on mechanism for feeding the paper forward a step after each operation of the levers.

The side rows of holes only are used for transmitting the message, the centre row being required for feeding forward the paper in the transmitter.

Terrestrial plants have a gaseous interchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide which is necessary for respiration and feeding.

Though feeding largely on worms and insects they ravage gardens and fields, on which account they are detested by the colonists.

Carried to the bee's nest, it undergoes a moult, and becomes a fat-bodied grub, ready to lead a quiet life feeding on the bee's rich food-stores.

Several species of Dermestidae are commonly found in houses, feeding on cheeses, dried meat, skins and other such substances.

Of the numerous other families of the Clavicornia may be mentioned the Cucujidae and Cryptophagidae, small beetles, examples of which may be found feeding on stored seeds or vegetable refuse, and the Mycetophagidae, which devour fungi.

The Nitidulidae are a large family with 1600 species, among which members of the genus Meligethes are often found in numbers feeding on blossoms, while others live under the bark of trees and prey on the grubs of boring beetles.

Like the perfect insects, they are predaceous, feeding on plant-lice (Aphidae) and scale insects (Coccidae).

The larva has no breathing-tube, and floats horizontally at the surface, except when feeding; it does not frequent sewage or foul water.

By feeding in their host.

They are said to be of a fierce disposition, feeding chiefly on birds.

In the municipalities, as in Rome, provision was made out of the public funds for feeding the poorest part of the population, and providing a supply of corn which could be bought by ordinary citizens at a moderate price.

It has been found possible to grow pure cultures of various diatoms, and by feeding these to delicate larvae kept in sterilized sea-water, great successes have been attained.

Then put off feeding them.

Each day of the following two weeks, Gabriel retrieved the couple, brought them to the same room, and schooled them in the art of feeding without killing.

Feeding was so wrapped up in sexuality for him that men held no appeal.

He rarely had dreams, and when he did, they were nice dreams of feeding on some beautiful woman.

Sometimes he wanted to hose his victims down before feeding.

He couldn't even think about feeding on another woman today.

That meant milking morning and night, and bottle feeding the kids - all twenty-seven of them.

She considered throwing the tasteless food cubes to the trees he warned her against feeding every day.

While Arthur might have been feeding the organization tidbits on Dean and Fred O'Connor's progress, how much could Arthur really know?

Now if they heard something they wouldn't know if we were feeding them lies or not.

In the upper parts of the valleys a number of lakes occur, occupying hollows and rock basins in the agglomerates and ashes, fed by springs, and feeding many of the streams that drain the mountain slopes.

By feeding the sheep, the land is dunged as if it had been folded; and those turnips, though few or none be carried off for human use, are a very excellent improvement, nay, some reckon it so, though they only plough the turnips in without feeding."

Turnips were hand-hoed and extensively employed in feeding sheep and cattle.