(v. t.) To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
(v. t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
(v. t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
(v. t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
(v. t.) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
(v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
(v. t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
(v. t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
(v. i.) To take food; to eat.
(v. i.) To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
(v. i.) To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
(v. i.) To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
(n.) That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
(n.) A grazing or pasture ground.
(n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
(n.) A meal, or the act of eating.
(n.) The water supplied to steam boilers.
(n.) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
(n.) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
(n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
(2) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(3) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(4) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(5) Actinomycin D could suppress the effects of RSD feeding on the protein synthetic rate of some, but not of all, secretory proteins.
(6) Circuitry has been developed to feed the output of an ear densitogram pickup into one channel of a two-channel Holter monitor.
(7) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
(8) Occasional vomits occur postoperatively in over half of patients but we are sceptical of the value of graded postoperative feeding regimens.
(9) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(10) Isolated microbial enzymes are being used in feed analysis.
(11) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
(12) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
(13) Intelligence scores are also related to feeding patterns, with those exclusively breastfed for 4-9 months displaying the highest scores in relation to their age.
(14) About half of the total of the 13 selected parameters showed reactions of the intermediary metabolism of the test groups caused by the feeding.
(15) Averaged across all dietary levels, tiamulin resulted in a 14.1% improvement in gain and a 5.7% improvement in feed:gain ratio during the first 28 to 35 d of the experiment (to 30 kg).
(16) A rapid and simple method has been developed for the nondestructive distinction between aflatoxin B1 and the feed antioxidant, ethoxyquin.
(17) No net hepatic uptake of glucose was observed before or after feeding.
(18) This article addresses the special problems raised by patients who resist medical feeding.
(19) Repeated feedings of 1 mg of Sudan III induced cumulative increases in the concentration of menadione reductase (EC 1.6.99.2) in liver, whereas protein concentration was unchanged.
(20) The announcement on feed-in tariffs will be welcomed by Labour backbenchers, who staged the biggest revolt of Gordon Brown's leadership over the issue.
Freed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Free
Example Sentences:
(1) The results observed plead in favour of the notion that frozen-defrosted blood, combines the advantages of washed blood, freed from all plasma and cellular contaminants of fresh blood with preservation of the oxyphoric power.
(2) For every city that feels neglected because the line doesn't stop there, they should be looking at how they can maximise benefits from the freed-up capacity on existing lines.
(3) Scotland Yard said the 15-year-old was questioned on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, but freed on bail on Tuesday morning pending further inquiries.
(4) The operation was a modification of Green's procedure; all muscular attachments to the scapula are freed, the omovertebral band is cut, and the scapula is sutured into a pocket in the latissimus dorsi after the scapula has been rotated and moved caudad to a more normal position.
(5) Megrahi, who is dying of prostate cancer, was freed by Scotland on compassionate grounds after serving eight years of a life sentence over the attack.
(6) The lipoprotein lipase and tributyrate hydrolysing activities were found to be similarly distributed in the fractions obtained when whole milk was separated into skim-milk and cream, and when the cream was washed and freed from lipid.
(7) Our last chance to restrain the housing bill is with the Lords | Bob Kerslake Read more The report goes on to argue that private housebuilders, as currently incentivised, are unable to deliver this target and calls for local authorities and housing associations to be freed up to build substantially more homes for rent and sale.
(8) The heart rate freed from autonomic influences, ie, after atropine plus propranolol infusion, was normal.
(9) Freed of the need to wave their tentacles around to hunt for food, the coral can devote more energy to secreting the mineral calcium carbonate, from which they form a stony exoskeleton.
(10) Nightingale was originally sentenced to 18 months in detention last year but freed after a high-profile campaign.
(11) Someone who was recently freed told me my son's nose was broken when he was beaten in the toilets.'
(12) There is another RNA molecule, approximately 5.8S or 150 nucleotides in size, which is noncovalently attached to the 25S ribosomal RNA and can be freed by gentle heating or urea treatment.
(13) He was freed by Jack Straw, the home secretary, on the grounds that medical experts said he was unfit to stand trial.
(14) The SPSL freed the authors from the problems associated with computer programming and allowed them to concentrate on the structure of the model.
(15) Ja'fari-Dowlatabadi told a press conference on Sunday that Shourd would be freed on health grounds but criticised the initial announcement of her release, saying it had been made while the judiciary was still working on the case.
(16) He was freed in 2004 and told not to contact his family in Italy.
(17) Cell cultures of porcine fetal kidney and porcine adult thyroid gland were freed of infection with porcine parvovirus by adding homologous viral antiserum to their nutrient medium.
(18) PGE receptor was solubilized by 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonic acid and freed from G-proteins by wheat germ agglutinin column chromatography.
(19) Erythrocyte spectrin, isolated by aqueous extraction of erythrocyte ghosts, may be freed from contaminating membrane lipids and small amounts of other proteins by gel chromatography in 5 or 10 mM deoxycholate.
(20) Light lysosomes were then freed from mitochondria and membranes by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and further purified by floatation-centrifugation on a sucrose gradient.