"feeding" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfiːdɪŋ/ Forms: feedings [plural]
Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ Etymology: By surface analysis, feed + -ing. Etymology templates: {{surf|en|feed|-ing}} By surface analysis, feed + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} feeding (countable and uncountable, plural feedings)
  1. (uncountable) The act or process of giving food. Tags: uncountable
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  2. (countable) An instance or session of giving food. Tags: countable Translations (an instance of giving food): إِطْعَام (ʔiṭʕām) [masculine] (Arabic), alimentació [feminine] (Catalan), etetés (Hungarian), megetetés (Hungarian), táplálás (Hungarian), кормле́ние (kormlénije) [neuter] (Russian), кормёжка (kormjóžka) [colloquial, feminine] (Russian), alimentación [feminine] (Spanish), ulishaji (Swahili)
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  3. (uncountable, usually said of animals) The act or process of eating. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-feeding-en-noun-YB8EbDD~
  4. (countable, usually said of animals) An instance or session of eating. Tags: countable, usually Translations (an instance of eating): хранене (hranene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), táplálkozás (Hungarian), evés (Hungarian), пита́ние (pitánije) [neuter] (Russian), alimentación [feminine] (Spanish)
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  5. (dated) That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder. Tags: countable, dated, uncountable
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  6. (dated) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals. Tags: countable, dated, uncountable
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  7. (uncountable) The loading of material into a machine that will process it. Tags: uncountable Translations (the loading of material into a machine that will process it): táplálás (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-feeding-en-noun--AjiinCX Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swahili translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 18 3 11 12 23 20 1 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 14 12 6 14 13 18 21 3 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 13 5 14 13 20 20 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 14 15 4 11 16 13 24 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 12 16 5 17 12 18 17 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 12 14 5 15 13 19 18 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 11 18 4 20 11 16 17 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 13 12 4 14 13 21 21 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Swahili translations: 12 14 4 15 13 20 19 2 Disambiguation of 'the loading of material into a machine that will process it': 1 1 2 1 1 0 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: types of feedingbottlefeedingbottom feedingbreastfeedingcluster feedingdeposit feedingfilter feedingfluid feedingfood-mass feedingforce feedingmix feedingtube feeding Derived forms: acquisition feeding time, care and feeding, feeding bottle, feeding chair, feeding frenzy, feeding stuff, feedingstuff, feeding tube, like feeding time at the zoo, tube feeding syndrome

Verb

IPA: /ˈfiːdɪŋ/
Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ Etymology: By surface analysis, feed + -ing. Etymology templates: {{surf|en|feed|-ing}} By surface analysis, feed + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} feeding
  1. present participle and gerund of feed Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: feed
    Sense id: en-feeding-en-verb-pr92Y0cs

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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