Feeding

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of taking or giving food; the act of eating or of giving to eat.
  • noun. That which is eaten.
  • noun. That which furnishes food, especially for animals; pasture-land.
  • noun. In printing (press-work), the placing of separate sheets of paper in position, so that they can be printed or ruled by a printing- or a ruling-machine. Also called, in England, laying-on.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
  • noun. That which is eaten; food.
  • noun. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.
  • noun. See under Bottle.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of feed.
  • noun. The activity of feeding an animal.
  • noun. An instance of feeding of an animal.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of consuming food
  • noun. the act of supplying food and nourishment
    • Word Usage
    "IV. iv.169 (339,2) [a worthy feeding] I conceive _feeding_ to be a"
    cross-reference
    feeding standard  forced feeding  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Reading  acceding  bleeding  breeding  ceding  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    food  
    verb-stem
    feed  
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.