feeding

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. the act of consuming food (Freq. 9)
• Syn:
eating
• Derivationally related forms:
feed, eat (for: eating)
• Hypernyms:
consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
• Hyponyms:
mycophagy, bite, chomp, browse, browsing,
coprophagy, coprophagia, dining, engorgement, feasting, banqueting,
graze, grazing, lunching, repletion, surfeit, supping,
tasting, savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation, necrophagia,
necrophagy, omophagia, scatophagy
• Part Meronyms:
chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
2. the act of supplying food and nourishment (Freq. 6)
• Syn:
alimentation
• Derivationally related forms:
aliment (for: alimentation), feed
• Hypernyms:
provision, supply, supplying
• Hyponyms:
suckling, lactation, infant feeding, forced feeding, gavage,
gavage, IV, overfeeding, spoonfeeding, total parenteral nutrition,
TPN, hyperalimentation

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  alimentation, eating