Noun
feeding -
the act of supplying food and nourishment
alimentation
supplying ,
supply ,
provision offering goods and services for sale
lactation ,
suckling the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands
infant feeding feeding an infant
forced feeding ,
gavage feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat
intravenous feeding ,
iv administration of nutrients through a vein
overfeeding excessive feeding
spoonfeeding teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought
feeding -
the act of consuming food
eating
ingestion ,
uptake ,
intake ,
consumption a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"
chewing ,
mastication ,
chew ,
manduction biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
mycophagy the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)
chomp ,
bite a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"
browsing ,
browse the act of feeding by continual nibbling
coprophagia ,
coprophagy eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity
dining the act of eating dinner
engorgement eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
banqueting ,
feasting eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)
graze ,
grazing the act of grazing
lunching the act of eating lunch
repletion ,
surfeit eating until excessively full
supping ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking
degustation ,
relishing ,
savoring ,
savouring ,
tasting taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most"
necrophagia ,
necrophagy feeding on corpses or carrion
omophagia the eating of raw food
