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feeding
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feeding
n.
act of eating or taking nourishment; giving of food or nourishment; act of supplying or providing; act of channeling or routing; act of inciting; act of inserting
feed
v.
provide with food; eat; nourish; be nourished; supply, provide; satisfy, gratify; encourage, support; channel, route; send; pass; move into a machine or opening; incite, inflame
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Eating
Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for . Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus. Fungi digest organic matter outside of their bodies as opposed to animals that digest their food inside their bodies. For humans, eating is an activity of daily living. Some individuals may limit their amount of nutritional intake. This may be a result of a lifestyle choice, due to hunger or famine, as part of a diet or as religious fasting.
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feeding
Noun
1. the act of consuming food
(synonym) eating
(hypernym) consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
(hyponym) bite, chomp
(part-meronym) chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
(derivation) feed, eat
2. the act of supplying food and nourishment
(synonym) alimentation
(hypernym) provision, supply, supplying
(hyponym) suckling, lactation
(derivation) feed
feed
Noun
1. food for domestic livestock
(synonym) provender
(hypernym) food, nutrient
(hyponym) blood meal
Verb
1. provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts"
(hypernym) provide, supply, ply, cater
(derivation) feeding, alimentation
2. give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"
(synonym) give
(antonym) starve, famish
(hypernym) provide, supply, ply, cater
(hyponym) dine
(cause) eat
(derivation) self-feeder, feeder
3. feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity"
(hypernym) supply, provide, render, furnish
(derivation) feeder, tributary, affluent
4. introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor"
(synonym) feed in
(hypernym) insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce
(derivation) self-feeder, feeder
5. support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity"
(hypernym) promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
6. take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
(synonym) eat
(hypernym) consume, ingest, take in, take, have
(hyponym) forage
(verb-group) eat
(derivation) provender
7. serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six"
(hypernym) provide, supply, ply, cater
(derivation) provender
8. move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
(synonym) run, flow, course
(hypernym) move
(hyponym) flush
9. profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity"
(synonym) prey
(hypernym) exploit, work
10. gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
(synonym) feast
(hypernym) regale, treat
11. provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
(synonym) fertilize, fertilise
(hypernym) enrich
(hyponym) nitrify
(classification) farming, agriculture, husbandry
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feed
v.
(na)krmit; jíst; žrát; živit se; dodávat (komu co); podávat (co kam)
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feed
Czas.
karmić; żywić (się); żerować; jeść; wprowadzać coś do czegoś
