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feeder

[ fee-der ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that supplies food or feeds something.
  2. a bin or boxlike device from which farm animals may eat, especially such a device designed to allow a number of chickens to feed simultaneously or to release a specific amount of feed at regular intervals.
  3. a person or thing that takes food or nourishment.
  4. a livestock animal that is fed an enriched diet to fatten it for market. Compare stocker ( def 2 ).
  5. a person or device that feeds a machine, printing press, etc.
  6. a tributary stream.
  7. Also Electricity. a conductor, or group of conductors, connecting primary equipment in an electric power system.
  8. British. a baby's bib.
  9. Theater Slang. straight man.


adjective

  1. being, functioning as, or serving as a feeder.
  2. pertaining to livestock to be fattened for market.

feeder

/ ˈfiːdə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that feeds or is fed
  2. a child's feeding bottle or bib
  3. 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
    1. a road, service, etc, that links secondary areas to the main traffic network
    2. ( as modifier )

      a feeder bus

    1. a transmission line connecting an aerial to a transmitter or receiver
    2. a power line for transmitting electrical power from a generating station to a distribution network


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Word History and Origins

Origin of feeder1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; feed, -er 1

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Example Sentences

Cats that started using puzzle feeders actually brought home more wildlife.

There’s also a risk of the disease being transferred from one bird species to another due to the intermingling that occurs at feeders — something that’s rare in nature.

Stigma sanctioned by GOP bottom feeders like Pence is a major factor behind those tragic deaths.

Five minutes later, the hummingbird flew to the feeder and Bruce shut the door.

University Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard and their feeder streets can’t be widened.

At first Wales and Sanger conceived of Wikipedia merely as an adjunct to Nupedia, sort of like a feeder product or farm team.

Counting the visitors to the bird feeder would probably be pushing it.

Inside a feeder school for The Family, a secretive global network of evangelical power players.

Many comedians have rejected the bro code and pushed back against resorting to bottom-feeder rape punchlines for cheap laughs.

They also need a voice in land rights and decisions to build feeder roads that make it possible to get their goods to market.

It is the Book of Howth which accuses Sidney of being a ‘lusty feeder and surfeiter.’

The Wye is the most important feeder of the Derwent, and runs through scenery that is romantically beautiful.

Two miles further down, on the west side, the Ouse receives another important feeder in the Aire.

It is very largely a bottom feeder and, therefore, rather of a sluggish nature.

While the pressman is laying out his plates the feeder should be cutting thin sheets of paper the size of one of the plates.

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