Feeding
['fiːdɪŋ] or ['fidɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feed
(n.) the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
(n.) That which is eaten; food.
(n.) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.
Editor: Rudolf
Examples
- Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The system of filling adopted consists of a culvert in each side wall feeding laterals from which are openings upward into the lock chamber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an Inquisition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A silo is a place or receptacle for storing green feed to preserve it for future feeding on the farm. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The land is manured, either by pasturing the cattle upon it, or by feeding them in the stable, and from thence carrying out their dung to it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They are incapable of making their own nests, or of feeding their own larvae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The horse was impatient at the tenderness while he was feeding. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If an animal die on the plain the polyborus has prerogative of feeding first, and is followed by the turkey buzzard and the gallinazo. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The fertilizer manufacturers mix the cyanamid with other ingredients to make a balanced plant food and so ship it to farmers for feeding their crops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Both of them employed the bolt system as previously embodied in the needle gun, but added to it the magazine principle and changed the method of supplying and feeding the cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There were three horses feeding in the meadow. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No; it could not have been the fat boy; there was not a gleam of mirth, or anything but feeding in his whole visage. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The little slave went on feeding the fire as before. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The machine operator drops the slabs of gum into a feeding chute. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Don't your horses want feeding, or your reddlebags want mending, or don't you want to find buyers for your goods, that you stay idling here like this? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Typed by Alphonse