English noun: feeding |
1. | feeding (act) the act of consuming food |
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| Synonyms | eating |
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| Broader (hypernym) | consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | banqueting, bite, browse, browsing, chomp, coprophagia, coprophagy, degustation, dining, engorgement, feasting, graze, grazing, lunching, mycophagy, necrophagia, necrophagy, omophagia, relishing, repletion, savoring, savouring, scatophagy, supping, surfeit, tasting |
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| Part holonym | chew, chewing, manduction, mastication |
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2. | feeding (act) the act of supplying food and nourishment |
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| Synonyms | alimentation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | provision, supply, supplying |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | forced feeding, gavage, hyperalimentation, infant feeding, intravenous feeding, IV, lactation, overfeeding, spoonfeeding, suckling, total parenteral nutrition, TPN |
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