(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.
Weed
Definition:
(n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
(n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
(n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
(n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
(n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
(n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
(n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.
(v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
(v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
(v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
(v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(2) In lieu of crop rotation and biodiversity (the non-toxic way to control weeds), the MSU extension service promotes what the article calls a "diversified herbicide program".
(3) The condition has occurred for many years and has been thought to have been associated with ingestion of Crofton weed (Eupatorium adenophorum).
(4) There is, of course, a place for regulatory vigilance, for forcing entire institutions to clean up after themselves by paying hefty fines, and weeding out bad practices.
(5) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
(6) The coalition claims that authorities were forcing teachers, businessmen and students to weed the fields or pick cotton or face fines of up to 1 million soum (about £210) for university students.
(7) Bob McCulloch, the St Louis County prosecutor who oversaw the state grand jury inquiry that looked into Brown’s death, insisted that discrimination by law enforcement was a rarity but said authorities must “weed it out”.
(8) Unions blame 70% fall in employment tribunal cases on fees Read more “The government originally said making people pay would weed out vexatious claims.
(9) He also promised Thatcher a new crackdown on immigrant male fiances, saying that he was thinking of "a kind of steeplechase designed to weed out south Asians in particular".
(10) The substances studied generally proved very active against the weeds tested and showed marked specificity of action towards Setaria and Echinochloa.
(11) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(12) In a statement on Wednesday , he said that he will criticise the Met for "the routine gathering and retention of information that was collateral, not linked to an operation or the prevention of crime and it should have been disposed of as part of a weeding process."
(13) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
(14) One of their number, James Howard Kunstler, blasted the High Line as "decadent" , "a weed-filled 1.5 mile-long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad", where "mistakes are artfully multiplied and layered", such as "the notion that buildings don't have to relate to the street-and-block grid ... instead of repairing the discontinuities of recent decades, we just celebrate them and make them worse".
(15) We have the know-how to track organisations that achieve the best results for patients, and weed out those that don't come up to scratch."
(16) After weeding, planting or harvesting, people attempt to make money.
(17) Animal Practice is a Universal Television production based on an irreverent New York veterinarian, played by Justin Kirk of Weeds and Angels in America.
(18) Some physicochemical properties of the mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNA) from plants of flax, broad bean and mung bean, and from tissue culture cells of jimson weed, soybean, petunia and tobacco were determined.
(19) Weed and water samples collected from river water abstraction points, reservoirs, tap water supplies, and animal water troughs fed from this supply all contained low levels of iodine-125.
(20) There has been a troubling several decade-long pattern of denial on the part of the seed patent holders over the likelihood of resistance emerging - for example Monsanto authors of a 1997 paper asserted weed resistance would never happen.