Feeder
noun
A person or thing that provides food for animals or birds.
The birds flocked to the bird feeder to eat.
Often appears as...
- bird feeder
- fish feeder
noun
Something that guides or supplies into a machine or system.
The feeder of the printing machine is blocked.
Often appears as...
- paper feeder
- material feeder
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Technical
noun
The tributary of a river or other body of water.
The feeder stream flows into the main river.
Often appears as...
- river feeder
- stream feeder
noun
A person or thing that routes electrical power to different circuits.
The electrical feeder for the house started to fail.
Often appears as...
- electrical feeder
- power feeder
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Technical
noun
A primary or secondary school linked to a specific institution, usually sharing students.
The school serves as a feeder for the local college.
Often appears as...
- feeder school
- feeder institution
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Academic
noun
A person or thing that provides food for animals or birds.
The birds flocked to the bird feeder to eat.
Often appears as...
- bird feeder
- fish feeder
noun
Something that guides or supplies into a machine or system.
The feeder of the printing machine is blocked.
Often appears as...
- paper feeder
- material feeder
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The tributary of a river or other body of water.
The feeder stream flows into the main river.
Often appears as...
- river feeder
- stream feeder
noun
A person or thing that routes electrical power to different circuits.
The electrical feeder for the house started to fail.
Often appears as...
- electrical feeder
- power feeder
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A primary or secondary school linked to a specific institution, usually sharing students.
The school serves as a feeder for the local college.
Often appears as...
- feeder school
- feeder institution
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/2Animal Care
Used when talking about nurturing animals; implies a caring action.
I installed a squirrel feeder in my backyard.
Pro Tip 2/2Bird-Watching
Commonly associated with bird-watching hobbies; indicates a structure designed for attracting birds.
Grandpa built a new feeder to attract finches.
Pro Tip 1/2Animal Care
Used when talking about nurturing animals; implies a caring action.
I installed a squirrel feeder in my backyard.
Pro Tip 2/2Bird-Watching
Commonly associated with bird-watching hobbies; indicates a structure designed for attracting birds.
Grandpa built a new feeder to attract finches.
Pro Tip 1/2Animal Care
Used when talking about nurturing animals; implies a caring action.
I installed a squirrel feeder in my backyard.
Pro Tip 2/2Bird-Watching
Commonly associated with bird-watching hobbies; indicates a structure designed for attracting birds.
Grandpa built a new feeder to attract finches.
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Joshua Klein: The...
or someplace where there's lots of crows. We put coins and peanuts all around the base of the machine. Crows eventually come by, eat the peanuts, and get used to the machine being there. Eventually, they eat all the peanuts. Then they see peanuts here on the feeder tray, and hop up and help themselves. Then they leave, the machine spits up more coins and peanuts,
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Seven Superpowered...
they're actually filter feeders that's right the largest fish in the sea feeds on plankton some of the smallest organisms in the ocean just like some whales do so i guess the name whale shark is pretty fitting wouldn't you say they tend to feed at the surface but they can also dive pretty deep too down
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Bird migration, a...
without the dangerous side effects. In addition, as our global populations continue to grow and people need places to call home, green spaces can offer both bird habitat as well as a peaceful and natural place for us to enjoy. Small changes at home can also make a huge difference. By hanging up feeders
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Vermicomposting: How...
These red wigglers are surface dwellers who don't burrow too deep, they're optimal feeders around room temperature, and they're well-suited to converting organic waste into usable fertilizer. Now, your worms might be vermin, but they need a comfortable space to live and some bedding materials,
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Dead stuff: The secret...
or catfish and other bottom feeders, or they are fed animal by-products. So, if you're thinking nature is full of waste, you're right. But one organism's garbage is another's gold, and all that rotting dead stuff ultimately provides the energy that nourishes us and most of life on Earth,
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
Shy but ambitious pig farmers, however, can purchase a -- this is true -- a sow vibrator, that hangs on the sperm feeder tube to vibrate. Because, as I mentioned, the clitoris is inside the vagina. So possibly, you know, a little more arousing than it looks. And I also said to her,
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Making food transparent...
intolerance to glucose these diagonals was truly empowering and life-saving but it took one year and she lost one year of a school year it became very hard for us to understand what was in the food what could be feeder what could she eat
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Feeding Frenzy: Manta...
seas become the most productive in the Maldives and up world nutrients and Sunnat explode into a rich phytoplankton soup despite their enormous size manta rays are filter feeders that prey exclusively on small electronic animals
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The Hummingbirds of São...
friends, but with the hummingbird feeder, we could get this hummingbird friend. And it's really important for us, for example, when we're here at the balcony reading or having lunch or during a meditation in the morning,
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Jae Rhim Lee: My...
and I'm feeding these to edible mushrooms. As the mushrooms grow, I pick the best feeders to become Infinity Mushrooms. It's a kind of imprinting and selective breeding process for the afterlife.
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Joshua Klein: The...
or someplace where there's lots of crows. We put coins and peanuts all around the base of the machine. Crows eventually come by, eat the peanuts, and get used to the machine being there. Eventually, they eat all the peanuts. Then they see peanuts here on the feeder tray, and hop up and help themselves. Then they leave, the machine spits up more coins and peanuts,
Video examples
Seven Superpowered...
they're actually filter feeders that's right the largest fish in the sea feeds on plankton some of the smallest organisms in the ocean just like some whales do so i guess the name whale shark is pretty fitting wouldn't you say they tend to feed at the surface but they can also dive pretty deep too down
Video examples
Bird migration, a...
without the dangerous side effects. In addition, as our global populations continue to grow and people need places to call home, green spaces can offer both bird habitat as well as a peaceful and natural place for us to enjoy. Small changes at home can also make a huge difference. By hanging up feeders
Video examples
Vermicomposting: How...
These red wigglers are surface dwellers who don't burrow too deep, they're optimal feeders around room temperature, and they're well-suited to converting organic waste into usable fertilizer. Now, your worms might be vermin, but they need a comfortable space to live and some bedding materials,
Video examples
Dead stuff: The secret...
or catfish and other bottom feeders, or they are fed animal by-products. So, if you're thinking nature is full of waste, you're right. But one organism's garbage is another's gold, and all that rotting dead stuff ultimately provides the energy that nourishes us and most of life on Earth,
Video examples
Mary Roach: 10 things...
Shy but ambitious pig farmers, however, can purchase a -- this is true -- a sow vibrator, that hangs on the sperm feeder tube to vibrate. Because, as I mentioned, the clitoris is inside the vagina. So possibly, you know, a little more arousing than it looks. And I also said to her,
Video examples
Making food transparent...
intolerance to glucose these diagonals was truly empowering and life-saving but it took one year and she lost one year of a school year it became very hard for us to understand what was in the food what could be feeder what could she eat
Video examples
Feeding Frenzy: Manta...
seas become the most productive in the Maldives and up world nutrients and Sunnat explode into a rich phytoplankton soup despite their enormous size manta rays are filter feeders that prey exclusively on small electronic animals
Video examples
The Hummingbirds of São...
friends, but with the hummingbird feeder, we could get this hummingbird friend. And it's really important for us, for example, when we're here at the balcony reading or having lunch or during a meditation in the morning,
Video examples
Jae Rhim Lee: My...
and I'm feeding these to edible mushrooms. As the mushrooms grow, I pick the best feeders to become Infinity Mushrooms. It's a kind of imprinting and selective breeding process for the afterlife.
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Maeve Binchy
Irish Novelist
I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.
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Jeff Vandermeer
American Writer
Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference.
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Julia Cameron
American Author
My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.
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Lucy Worsley
I'd prefer to cook for friends at home than go to a restaurant. My mum is a feeder and I get it from her - I know when I visit her there will be three different types of home-made cake waiting for me.
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Brad Feld
American Businessman
I separate the world of startup communities into two constituencies - leaders and feeders. The leaders are entrepreneurs and the feeders everyone else.
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Imelda May
Irish Musician
I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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Johnny Vegas
British Comedian
I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers.
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Stephen A. Smith
American Journalist
I'm associated with Walt Disney, but dammit, everybody knows that I'm a bottom feeder.
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Tamara Ecclestone
American Celebrity
My sister would say I'm a feeder because I like cooking for people.
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Aristophanes
Greek Poet
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Maeve Binchy
Irish Novelist
I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.
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Jeff Vandermeer
American Writer
Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference.
Quote examples
Julia Cameron
American Author
My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.
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Lucy Worsley
I'd prefer to cook for friends at home than go to a restaurant. My mum is a feeder and I get it from her - I know when I visit her there will be three different types of home-made cake waiting for me.
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Brad Feld
American Businessman
I separate the world of startup communities into two constituencies - leaders and feeders. The leaders are entrepreneurs and the feeders everyone else.
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Imelda May
Irish Musician
I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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Johnny Vegas
British Comedian
I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers.
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Stephen A. Smith
American Journalist
I'm associated with Walt Disney, but dammit, everybody knows that I'm a bottom feeder.
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Tamara Ecclestone
American Celebrity
My sister would say I'm a feeder because I like cooking for people.
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Aristophanes
Greek Poet
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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