| Pronunciation: | | 'feeding
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| Matching Terms: | | feeding bottle, feeding chair
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- [n] the act of consuming food
- [n] the act of supplying food and nourishment
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| | Synonyms: | | alimentation, eating |
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| | See Also: | | banqueting, bite, browse, browsing, chew, chewing, chomp, consumption, coprophagia, coprophagy, degustation, dining, engorgement, feasting, forced feeding, gavage, geophagia, geophagy, graze, grazing, hyperalimentation, infant feeding, ingestion, intake, intravenous feeding, IV, lactation, lunching, manduction, mastication, necrophagia, necrophagy, omophagia, overfeeding, pica, provision, relishing, repletion, savoring, savouring, scatophagy, spoonfeeding, suckling, supping, supply, supplying, surfeit, tasting, total parenteral nutrition, TPN, uptake |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Feed"ing\, n.
1. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process
of fattening.
2. That which is eaten; food.
3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for
animals; pasture land.
{Feeding bottle}. See under {Bottle}.
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