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FEEDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of consuming food
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("feeding" is a kind of...):
consumption; ingestion; intake; uptake (the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating))
Meronyms (parts of "feeding"):
chew; chewing; manduction; mastication (biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feeding"):
scatophagy (the eating of excrement or other filth)
omophagia (the eating of raw food)
necrophagia; necrophagy (feeding on corpses or carrion)
degustation; relishing; savoring; savouring; tasting (taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality)
supping (ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking)
repletion; surfeit (eating until excessively full)
lunching (the act of eating lunch)
graze; grazing (the act of grazing)
banqueting; feasting (eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment))
engorgement (eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation)
dining (the act of eating dinner)
coprophagia; coprophagy (eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity)
browse; browsing (the act of feeding by continual nibbling)
bite; chomp (the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws)
mycophagy (the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild))
Derivation:
feed (take in food; used of animals only)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of supplying food and nourishment
Synonyms:
alimentation; feeding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("feeding" is a kind of...):
provision; supply; supplying (the activity of supplying or providing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feeding"):
lactation; suckling (feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast)
infant feeding (feeding an infant)
forced feeding; gavage (feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat)
intravenous feeding; IV (administration of nutrients through a vein)
overfeeding (excessive feeding)
spoonfeeding (feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon)
hyperalimentation; total parenteral nutrition; TPN (administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes)
Derivation:
feed (give food to)
feed (provide as food)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb feed
Context examples:
"This is the strongest evidence yet found for such a triple system of actively feeding supermassive black holes."
(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)
Signs and symptoms appear in infancy and include mental retardation, loss of motor skills, abnormal muscle tone, feeding difficulties and a very large head.
(Canavan Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
“If adults retain this ability, it would help them with migration between feeding and spawning areas.”
(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)
Ensure may be taken by mouth or given through tube feeding.
(Ensure, NCI Dictionary)
The offshore reefs provide habitat and feeding grounds for large numbers of fish, including top predators such as sharks and groupers.
(Microbes reflect the health of coral reefs, National Science Foundation)
Inability to achieve a full feeding volume.
(Feeding Intolerance, NCI Thesaurus)
A small bore flexible feeding tube with a weighted metal tip that is ideally placed in the second or third part of the duodenum.
(Nasoduodenal Tube, NCI Thesaurus)
But you are not feeding me for their sake, nor for the sake of anything else I have written.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It may involve simple changes in a person's diet, or intravenous or tube feeding.
(Nutritional Therapy, NCI Dictionary)
Also called: Parenteral Nutrition, TPN, Artificial feeding, Artificial hydration and nutrition, Hyperalimentation, Parenteral nutrition, Tube feeding
(Nutritional Support, NIH)
