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Princeton's WordNet

  1. eating, feedingnoun

    the act of consuming food

  2. feeding, alimentationnoun

    the act of supplying food and nourishment

Wiktionary

  1. feedingnoun

    The activity of feeding an animal.

    Feeding the seals is one of the zookeeper's most visible chores.

  2. feedingnoun

    An instance of feeding of an animal.

    There are three feedings a day.

Wikipedia

  1. feeding

    Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for growth. 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 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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  1. feeding

    Feeding refers to the process of consuming food to receive necessary nutrients that assist in growth, provide energy and maintain overall health. It is not limited to human beings and includes all living organisms including animals, birds, insects and even plants. The method of feeding varies widely among different species.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Feeding

    of Feed

  2. Feedingnoun

    the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening

  3. Feedingnoun

    that which is eaten; food

  4. Feedingnoun

    that which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land

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    Rank popularity for the word 'feeding' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4386

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of feeding in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of feeding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of feeding in a Sentence

  1. Ben Bova:

    Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

  2. Liz Bernich:

    Were feeding you for the next month.

  3. Toronto Mississauga paleontologist Kirstin Brink:

    But the serrations were most efficient for piercing flesh and gripping it while ripping off a chunk of meat, called the 'puncture and pull' feeding style.

  4. Ron Gorecki:

    Basically what they're trying to say is that we're taking our cats and feeding them to our alligator, that's not what happened. There's never been a complaint, never been a problem.

  5. Mike Pompeo:

    As President Trump has made very clear, we need a strategy that protects the American economy and indeed our way of life. The free world must triumph over this new tyranny, the truth is that our policies -- and those of other free nations -- resurrected China's failing economy, only to see Beijing bite the international hands that were feeding it. We opened our arms to Chinese citizens, only to see the Chinese Communist Party exploit our free and open society.

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