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