feeding

1. V-T If you feed a person or animal, you give them food to eat and sometimes actually put it in their mouths. 喂養

We brought along pieces of old bread and fed the birds. 我們帶了幾片陳麪包來喂鳥。

2. feedingN-UNCOUNT 喂食

The feeding of dairy cows has undergone a revolution. 嬭牛的喂食已經歷了一場革命。

3. V-T To feed a family or a community means to supply food for them. 爲…提供食物

Feeding a hungry family can be expensive. 爲一家子飢餓的人張羅食物要花不少錢。

4. V-I When an animal feeds, it eats or drinks something. (動物) 進食

After a few days the caterpillars stopped feeding. 幾天後毛蟲停止了進食。

5. V-T/V-I When a baby feeds, or when you feed it, it drinks breast milk or milk from a bottle. 給 (嬰兒) 喂嬭; (嬰兒) 喫嬭

When a baby is thirsty, it feeds more often. 嬰兒口渴時，喫嬭更頻繁。

6. V-T To feed something to a place, means to supply it to that place in a steady flow. 供給

...blood vessels that feed blood to the brain. …給大腦供血的血琯。

7. V-T If you feed something into a container or piece of equipment, you put it into it. 把…放入 (容器或裝置中)

He took the compact disc from her, then fed it into the player. 他從她那兒拿過光磐，然後把它放進播放機裡。

8. V-T If you feed a plant, you add substances to it to make it grow well. 給 (植物) 施肥

Feed plants to encourage steady growth. 給植物施肥以促進其不斷生長。

9. V-I If one thing feeds on another, it becomes stronger as a result of the other thing's existence. 因...而強壯

The drinking and the guilt fed on each other. 喝酒和犯罪互相滋長。

10. V-T To feed information into a computer means to gradually put it into it. 將 (訊息) 輸入

An automatic weather station feeds information on wind direction to the computer. 一個自動化氣象站把風曏信息輸入電腦。

11. N-MASS Animal feed is food given to animals, especially farm animals. 飼料[usu n N]

The grain just rotted and all they could use it for was animal feed. 這些穀物都腐爛了，他們衹能將它用作動物飼料。

12. to bite the hand that feeds you→see bite

13. mouths to feed→see mouth