feeding

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of feed

noun

1. (uncountable)The act or process of giving food.

   “premium blend for feeding of dairy herds”

2. (countable)An instance or session of giving food.

   “the morning feeding might differ from the evening feeding in protein content”

   “optimal intervals between feedings for neonates with weak esophagogastric sphincter”

   “[…] they are nevertheless always like the lion's keeper, who, when by long patience, a thousand feedings, and a thousand clawings, he hath made a fierce lion familiar, yet never gives him meat, but with pulling back his hand, always in fear […]”

3. (uncountable, usually)The act or process of eating.

   “feeding from round bales is necessary here in winter, when pasturage is ebbed”

4. (countable, usually)An instance or session of eating.

   “picked up hardware disease during a feeding outside the intended pasture”

5. (countable, dated, uncountable)That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
6. (countable, dated, uncountable)That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
7. (uncountable)The loading of material into a machine that will process it.

   “caution in the feeding of the No. 3 mill”