Meaning

15 senses
  1. One who feeds, or gives food to another.

    someone who consumes food for nourishment

  2. One who feeds, or gives food to another.

    The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).

  3. One who feeds, or takes in food.

    an animal that feeds on a particular source of food

  4. One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).

    a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material

  5. That which is used to feed.

    bird feeder

  6. A tributary stream, especially of a canal.

  7. A branch line of a railway.

  8. A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.

  9. A feeder ship.

  10. (US)A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.

  11. (derogatory)A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.

  12. Synonym of blower (“fissure from which firedamp issues”).

Examples

46 sentences
  1. There is a bird feeder in our backyard.

    ruУ нас на заднем дворе есть кормушка для птиц.

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  2. The hungry birds were eating from the bird feeder.

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  3. Tom filled the bird feeder.

    ruТом насыпал корма в птичью кормушку.

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  4. Ziri found the bird feeder broken.

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  5. Ziri cleaned the bird feeder yesterday.

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Origin

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.

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Forms

plural: feeders
Singularfeeder
Pluralfeeders

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

25 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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