(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.
Slop
Definition:
(n.) Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
(n.) Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
(v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
(v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
(v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.
(v. i.) Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.
(v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
(v. i.) Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.
Example Sentences:
(1) One trader wrote, on 10 March 2006: "I don't know how we dispose of the slops and I don't imply we would dump them, but for sure, there must be some way to pay someone to take them."
(2) The crude slop gave better results than the diluted or centrifuged liquors.
(3) The company has said the "slops" were dumped by a licensed local independent contractor, Compagnie Tommy, which was appointed in good faith.
(4) Their new album continues the generic cross-breeding that Funkadelic practised – on Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Cosmic Slop, etc – from the black side of the racial border.
(5) Towers of pre-buttered bread, greasy counters and tubs of slop were dispiritingly common: Pret was clean, sleek and sensibly designed.
(6) Water slops from the pool on to the parquet where, in a few days, a baby will hopefully be sleeping in a moses basket.
(7) So if there is a heatwave this summer, it would be best for us, too, to slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat.
(8) A perfectionist, this old-school hotelier strives to make even the most uncivilised environment palatable: his delicate approach to serving prison slop brings one of the film's funniest moments.
(9) This was especially true for the slop displacement test, which revealed large amounts of displacement after a single moderate torsional load, whereas in the underreamed groups significantly less loosening was found.
(10) One might agree that the mechanically recovered slop that is the main ingredient of these balls should not be called “meat”.
(11) You could water window boxes with dish-slop, though, and that was another tip: take a shower by standing under Selfridges' petunias, which were given a pretty upmarket daily dousing in water largely free from bits of crud and washing-up-liquid slick.
(12) They repeated denials that the slops could have caused death or serious injury, and were highly toxic.
(13) The hull rolled high and slid off to the right, dumping Claude Ledet into the terrible slop, and as he went under, his mind came back to a splintered version of the present, and he knew at once that he had to get back to the surface because the boy, he felt sure, would jump after him, and a news account he'd read thirty years before of a grandfather and grandson gone fishing and not coming back in at the appointed time bloomed into his head, because when the sheriff's men dragged the canal the next morning the hooks brought up together the grandfather and a four-year-old boy wrapped tightly in his arms.
(14) You know exactly what's going to happen on the long and grisly way out: the hoists, nappies, hernia, commodes, aphasia, swallowing problems and being spoon-fed slop.
(15) ), just bubblegum pap, and televised slop, for the masses.
(16) The good news is that a combination of sunscreen and covering up can reduce melanoma rates, as shown by Australian figures from their slip, slop, slap campaign .
(17) Unlike the accelerated Britpunk of much west-coast hardcore, the Peppers’ influences are mainly American – the Germs, Ohio Players, Jimi Hendrix, P-Funk, Dead Kennedys, Captain Beefheart, etc – yet the most audible ingredient of their cosmic slop is the Gang of Four’s judderfunk.
(18) Total cerebral blood flow was caliculated by bicompartmental analysis and compared to the two minutes initial slop index.
(19) Rotational micromotion, permanent rotational displacement, and slop displacement between bone and implant were measured with linearly variable differential transducers under torsional loading.
(20) Graphs of minute ventilation (V) versus mean CO2 for families of oscillation sizes (0.5%, 1% and 2%) showed that the ventilatory sensitivity (slop) was least for the 2% oscillations and greatest for the 0.5% oscillations.