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US
/ˈfidɪŋ/
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[ UK /fˈiːdɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /fˈiːdɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of consuming food
- the act of supplying food and nourishment
How To Use feeding In A Sentence
- A couple of weeks ago, while glassing four female Meneliks bushbuck two hundred yards away feeding in a tiny clearing during a pouring rain, a nice male stepped into view. Very Little Drops Dead
- Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding.
- In her new role she will help to develop the midwives' public health role, with increased support for breastfeeding and encouraging mothers-to-be to stop smoking.
- The business of the dairy, like the feeding of hogs and poultry, is originally carried on as a save-all. XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land
- Forage crops, pasture, and rangelands are important in feeding ruminant animals tied to the meat and dairy industries.
- Dysphagic patients should be fed through a nasogastric tube or percutaneous endoscopic feeding tube until it is safe to resume oral food and fluids.
- Environmental health officers hope the cotes will keep pigeons off the streets and discourage them from feeding on waste food and titbits offered by tourists.
- After feeding, caterpillars pupate in a chrysalis, then transform into beautiful butterflies.
- It was dreadful, because if people are famished and dying you have to do intensive feeding seven or eight times a day.
- It is suggested that ad libitum feeding conditions decrease NAD availability which also decreases metabolism of the triose phosphate glycolytic intermediates, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate and dihydroxyacetone-phosphate, which can spontaneously decompose into methylglyoxal MG. The low-fat diet cascade | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.