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feeding

/fee-ding/US // ˈfi dɪŋ //

喂食,喂养,饲喂,饲养

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of a person or thing that feeds.
    • : an instance of eating or of taking or being given nourishment.
    • : grazing land.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbgive nourishment; augment
Forms: feedings

Examples

  • The Feeder Robot features BPA-free construction, anti-jam technology, a plastic feeding bowl, and an onboard backup battery so you’ll never have to sacrifice certainty for automated convenience.

  • A lot of these characteristic features of early tetrapod feeding could have evolved in water for the sake of feeding in water.

  • She has doubts about the comparison to shark feeding methods and diet based solely on the tooth shape, though, because of fundamental differences between how sharks and mosasaurs bite prey.

  • He feeds her through a feeding tube and helps her suction saliva, because she can’t swallow it.

  • Their portable sidewalk tables are a part of downtown Washington’s landscape, and many of them are career vendors, feeding and housing their families for decades, one metal button and polyester flag at a time.

  • Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon labels the show a “crass stunt” on a “bottom-feeding vortex of sadness network.”

  • He did not mention rectal feeding, but perhaps he was not fully briefed.

  • At least five detainees were subjected to “rectal feeding” or “rectal hydration,” without any documented medical need.

  • One detainee was bent over for a rectal feeding that involved Ensure, the protein shake.

  • Louisa also devotes much of her time to feeding underprivileged children in the desolate Kurland Village in South Africa.

  • Three immatures were collected and adults were seen feeding young fledglings at Pisté.

  • One of the little girls in pigtails was holding him, while Miss Anne administered the feeding-bottle.

  • But he soon got over his fear, and was so busy feeding the elephant, that his papa had to coax him away.

  • A small kangaroo was seen by Mr. Cunningham feeding upon the grass, but fled the moment that it saw him approaching.

  • I visited this nest several times, and saw the old bird feeding her young.