Definition of feeding Feeding

/fiˈdɪŋ/ - [feeding] - feed•ing

We found 12 definitions of feeding from 5 different sources.

What does feeding mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: feedings
feeding - the act of supplying food and nourishment
		alimentation
		supplying, supply, provision offering goods and services for sale
		lactation, suckling the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands
		infant feeding feeding an infant
		forced feeding, gavage feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat
		intravenous feeding, iv administration of nutrients through a vein
		overfeeding excessive feeding
		spoonfeeding teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought
feeding - the act of consuming food
		eating
		ingestion, uptake, intake, consumption a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"
		chewing, mastication, chew, manduction biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
		mycophagy the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)
		chomp, bite a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"
		browsing, browse the act of feeding by continual nibbling
		coprophagia, coprophagy eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity
		dining the act of eating dinner
		engorgement eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
		banqueting, feasting eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)
		graze, grazing the act of grazing
		lunching the act of eating lunch
		repletion, surfeit eating until excessively full
		supping ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking
		degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most"
		necrophagia, necrophagy feeding on corpses or carrion
		omophagia the eating of raw food

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Wiktionary

feeding (Noun)
The activity of feeding an animal.
feeding (Noun)
An instance of feeding of an animal.
feeding (Verb)
Present participle of feed.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

feeding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Feed
feeding (n.)
the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
feeding (n.)
That which is eaten; food.
feeding (n.)
That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.