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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. Gina Stipo:

    Where’s the respect for ingredients and the people you’re feeding ? It’s all about the bad-boy image, and they see it on Food Network … it’s about being outrageous.

  2. Rasim Pajezetovic:

    It began spontaneously, us feeding them. All of a sudden there were 500 of them, we can't finance it and it happens that I really have nothing to make for them to eat.

  3. Yujiro Goto:

    Clearly risk sentiment is not good and oil prices are declining this week and ...feeding and driving the dollar lower against the yen.

  4. Jessica Martucci:

    We're not making any statements against the recommendation of breast-feeding overall, but are instead suggesting that the language of 'the natural' in breast-feeding promotion is slippery and potentially harmful to other public health goals, like vaccination.

  5. Bob Hueter:

    They're moving north to the very rich feeding grounds off of Canada and the northeastern Bob Hueter.

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