Word Finder - feeds

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Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.

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They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.

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Something supplied continuously.

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a satellite feed

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The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.

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the paper feed of a printer

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The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.

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A meal.

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A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.

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They held a crab feed on the beach.

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Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.

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I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.

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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.

Jenn, start intel feeds every thirty minutes starting now.

It feeds exclusively on leaves and branches of bushes and small trees, and chiefly frequents the sides of wood-clad rugged hills.

Use of imported News Feeds (these can be slow and can also distract the viewer ).

Methods of available for continuously feed oil to porous bearing using force feeding or using very simple wick feeds.

The rock wren feeds chiefly in open slopes on mountain ranges.

Observations upon captive specimens have led to the conclusion that it feeds principally on juices, especially of the sugar-cane, which it obtains by tearing open the hard woody circumference of the stalk with its strong incisor teeth; but it is said also to devour certain species of wood-boring caterpillars, which it obtains by first cutting down with its teeth upon their burrows, and then picking them out of their retreat with the claw of its attenuated middle finger.

Among the vegetable-feeding chafers we usually find that while the perfect insect devours leaves, the larva lives underground and feeds on roots.

There is one enormous boa, the maja (Epicrates angulifer), which feeds on pigs, goats and the like, but does not molest man.

The water which bears the oxygen for respiration and the minute organisms upon which the Brachiopod feeds is swept into the mantle cavity by the action of the cilia which cover the arms, and the eggs and excreta pass out into the same cavity.

The sloth (Bradypus) is an arboreal animal which feeds almost exclusively on the foliage of the Cecropias.

A large Mygale found on the island of Siriba, of the Abrolhos group, feeds upon lizards, and has been known to attack and kill young chickens.

It is a widelydistributed species, being found throughout the northern and temperate seas of Europe, Asia and America, extending as far south as Gibraltar, but not entering the Mediterranean, and inhabits water from 25 to 50 fathoms deep, where it always feeds close to the bottom.

Two main lines of railway traverse the valley; that on the south is the main line from Aix-la-Chapelle, Cologne and Dusseldorf to central Germany and Berlin, that on the north feeds the important towns of the Ruhr valley.

The blackbird feeds chiefly on fruits, worms, the larvae of insects and snails, extracting the last from their shells by dexterously chipping them on stones; and though it is generally regarded as an enemy of the garden, it is probable that the amount of damage by it to the fruit is largely compensated for by its undoubted services as a vermin-killer.

Flocks of geese and other birds come to the islands from the north (Bunge and Toll), as also the gull Lestris pomarina, which feeds chiefly on the lemming.

It feeds chiefly on fruit and roots, but kills sheep, goats, deer, ponies and cattle, and sometimes devours carrion.

Conolophus subcristatus and Amblyrhynchus cristatus inhabit the Galapagos; the former feeds upon cactus and leaves, the latter is semi-marine, diving for the algae which grow below tide-marks.

An interesting species of the last is the leaf-cutting ant (Eciton) which lives in large underground colonies and feeds upon a fungus produced by leaf-cuttings stored in subterranean passages to promote fermentation.

It often feeds on fresh-water turtles; sometimes following the reptiles into the water to effect a capture, it inserts a paw between the shells and drags out the body of the turtle by means of its sharp claws.

In spring the chaffinch is destructive to early flowers, and to young radishes and turnips just as they appear above the surface; in summer, however, it feeds principally on insects and their larvae, while in autumn and winter its food consists of grain and other seeds.

Canadian hogs are fed, as a rule, on feeds suited for the production of what are known as " fleshy sides."

The eria or arrindi moth of Bengal and Assam, Attacus ricini, which feeds on the castor-oil plant, yields seven generations yearly, forming loose flossy orange-red and sometimes white cocoons.

The lion lives chiefly in sandy plains and rocky places interspersed with dense thorn-thickets, or frequents the low bushes and tall rank grass and reeds that grow along the sides of streams and near the springs where it lies in wait for the larger herbivorous animals on which it feeds.

Indeed, the natives are disposed to consider him as in some sort their protector, as he saves their crops from destruction by the wild animals on which he feeds.

In these it remains during great part of the day, emerging at night in search of the herbs on which it feeds.

Hoe's first presses were four-feeders, but as many as ten feeds were supplied, as in the case of the two presses built to replace the Applegath machine for The Times, each of which produced about 2000 impressions from each feed, making a total of 20,000 per hour, printed on one side, or from two machines 20,000 sheets printed on both sides.

If some, and not the least essential, of these aspects are quasi-negative, it must be remembered that negations - witness the Unseen, the Unknown, the Infinite of a more advanced theology - are well adapted to supply that mystery on which the religious consciousness feeds with the slight basis of conceptual support it needs.

The tarsier feeds chiefly on insects and lizards, sleeps during the day, but is tolerably active at night, moving chiefly by jumping from place to place; an action for which the structure of its hind-legs seems particularly well adapted.

It consists of the females of Coccus cacti, an insect of the family Coccidae of the order Hemiptera, which feeds upon various species of the Cactaceae, more especially the nopal plant, Opuntia coccinellifera, a native of Mexico and Peru.

It feeds upon the substance of the nut.

The scutellum meanwhile feeds the developing embryo from the endosperm.

One of the best game-birds of the forest is the "crested curassow" (Crax alector), sometimes weighing 12 lb, which feeds on arboreal fruits and rarely comes to the ground.

It is commonly supposed to be capable of prizing limpets from their rock, and of opening the shells of mussels; but, though undoubtedly it feeds on both, further evidence as to the way in which it procures them is desirable.

The opening of the mouth is small, and from it the echidna puts forth its long slender tongue, lubricated with a viscous secretion, by means of which it seizes the ants and other insects on which it feeds.

It feeds on small freshwater animals and soft vegetable matter, and spawns in April or May.

She feeds off the powers of Guardians, so we stripped the Guardians of power.

It's a beading machine that feeds a series of assorted beads onto hair for that boho look.

An inclined channel feeds the silica abrasive to the surface of the test wheel about 2 cm in front of the test-piece.

Heat is abstracted from the ground and feeds into the building heating ventilation air conditioning system.

Technical and financial support from Government to enable farmers to use alternative, sustainable aqua feeds.

For example, several of my feeds are about automotive technology, and some are about science.

This includes backspaces, form feeds, and the like.

Try some of the traditional dry-cured bacon, cut to your own requirements, or chicken fed only on additive free feeds.

This feed has a very nice consistency and unlike some organic feeds doesn't smell too bad either.

If you wish, you can use calculated feeds and speeds but you must look up and enter the relevant data.

Cassegrain telescope feeds is in progress.

Technical training at LCDS directly feeds courses in repertoire and performance studies where students learn solo and group work choreographed by professional choreographed by professional choreographers.

A crib makes a cozy cocoon and is conveniently sized to sit beside your bed for easy night time feeds.

Could RSS feeds become a conduit for the transmission of computer worms?

A digital crossover feeds the multiple digital to analog converters, whose outputs in turn feed the integral power amplifiers.