[ UK /fˈiːdɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈfidɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening
  2. an animal that feeds on a particular source of food
    a bark feeder
    a mud feeder
  3. an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds
  4. a branch that flows into the main stream
  5. someone who consumes food for nourishment
  6. a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material
    the feeder discharged feed into a trough for the livestock
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How To Use feeder In A Sentence

  • The air time is sold by broadcast bottom feeders who could care less about anything beyond profit margins.
  • Working with other schools is an effective means of staff training, and academies for secondary pupils will benefit if their feeder schools improve their standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • The photo plates also age and sex accipiters, those hawks that flap, flap, sail, and are the mostly likely the ones that raid our feeders of hapless birds.
  • The fact that they are harmless plankton feeders in no way diminishes the adrenaline rush; the ease with which you can approach them makes that rare encounter even more exciting.
  • Some crops such as corn are very heavy feeders so moving it from place to place prevents rapid depletion of the soil.
  • From the seed feeders on the deck come the euphonious calls of chickadees, the bell-like trill of the dark-eyed juncos, the down-slurred whistle of the titmice, the “ank-ank” of the nuthatches, the “zree” of the house finches, and the coo of doves; from the nectar feeders and flowers, the whirr of hummingbird wings. Birdology
  • They have effectively become a feeder system. The Sun
  • In my view there seem to be umpteen benefits for bigger clubs having feeder teams.
  • My plan was to remove single cells from defined regions of the blastoderm and culture them in adult abdomens surrounded by genetically marked "feeder cells. Eric F. Wieschaus - Autobiography
  • I spent an hour or two scraping and repainting, then filled the feeder with birdseed, hung it near the shed, and watched to see who would take the bait.
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