feeder
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dər noun
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a person or thing that supplies food or feeds something.
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a person or thing that takes food or nourishment.
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a person or device that feeds a machine, printing press, etc.
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a tributary stream.
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Also, feed. Electricity. a conductor, or group of conductors, connecting primary equipment in an electric power system.
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British. a baby's bib.
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Theater Slang. straight man.
adjective
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being, functioning as, or serving as a feeder.
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pertaining to livestock to be fattened for market.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that feeds or is fed |
| 2. | a child's feeding bottle or bib |
| 3. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) agriculture a head of livestock being fattened for slaughter |
| 4. | a person or device that feeds the working material into a system or machine |
| 5. | a tributary channel, esp one that supplies a reservoir or canal with water |
| 6. | a. a road, service, etc, that links secondary areas to the main traffic network |
| b. (as modifier): a feeder bus | |
| 7. | a. a transmission line connecting an aerial to a transmitter or receiver |
| b. a power line for transmitting electrical power from a generating station to a distribution network | |
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Word Origin & History
feeder
early 15c., one who feeds an animal; 1560s, one who eats; agent noun from feed. Of cattle and streams, by 1790s; of roads and railroads, by 1850s.
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Example sentences
He'd given up all the other livestock, but twenty feeder pigs still remained.
Consider the lowly fishing lure, a potential bottom feeder if there ever was one.
Marijuana isn't dangerous, and it isn't a feeder drug.
But when they took out the lawn, they realized they had shallow feeder rots out to the edges of their property in all directions.
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