feeding

n. act of eating or taking nourishment; giving of food or nourishment; act of supplying or providing; act of channeling or routing; act of inciting; act of inserting

v. provide with food; eat; nourish; be nourished; supply, provide; satisfy, gratify; encourage, support; channel, route; send; pass; move into a machine or opening; incite, inflame

Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. There are many types of feeding that animals exhibit, including:filter feeding - obtaining food suspended in the water columndeposit feeding - obtaining food particles in soilfluid feeding - obtaining food by consuming other organisms fluidsbulk feeding - obtaining food by eating pieces of other organisms or swallowing them wholephagocytosis - engulfing food with cell membrane
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Feeding /feed·ing/ the taking or giving of food. artificial feeding feeding of a baby with food other than mother's milk. [more]Feeding - Community and Resources

Noun
1. the act of consuming food
(synonym) eating
(hypernym) consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
(hyponym) bite, chomp
(part-meronym) chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
(derivation) feed, eat
2. the act of supplying food and nourishment
(synonym) alimentation
(hypernym) provision, supply, supplying
(hyponym) suckling, lactation
(derivation) feed

Noun
1. food for domestic livestock
(synonym) provender
(hypernym) food, nutrient
(hyponym) blood meal
Verb
1. provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts"
(hypernym) provide, supply, ply, cater
(derivation) feeding, alimentation
2. give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"
(synonym) give
(antonym) starve, famish
(hypernym) provide, supply, ply, cater
(hyponym) dine
(cause) eat
(derivation) self-feeder, feeder
3. feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity"
(hypernym) supply, provide, render, furnish
(derivation) feeder, tributary, affluent
4. introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor"
(synonym) feed in
(hypernym) insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce
(derivation) self-feeder, feeder
5. support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity"
(hypernym) promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
6. take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
(synonym) eat
(hypernym) consume, ingest, take in, take, have
(hyponym) forage
(verb-group) eat
(derivation) provender
7. serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six"
(hypernym) provide, supply, ply, cater
(derivation) provender
8. move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
(synonym) run, flow, course
(hypernym) move
(hyponym) flush
9. profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity"
(synonym) prey
(hypernym) exploit, work
10. gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
(synonym) feast
(hypernym) regale, treat
11. provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
(synonym) fertilize, fertilise
(hypernym) enrich
(hyponym) nitrify
(classification) farming, agriculture, husbandry

ruo4 rou4 qiang2 shi2
The flesh of the weak is the food of the strong.
The law of the jungle. Compare with 适者生存 (shi4 zhe3 sheng1 cun2) and 优胜劣败 (you1 sheng4 lie4 bai4).