feeder

[ fee-der ]

/ ˈfi dər /

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noun

a person or thing that supplies food or feeds something.

a bin or boxlike device from which farm animals may eat, especially such a device designed to allow a number of chickens to feed simultaneously or to release a specific amount of feed at regular intervals.

a person or thing that takes food or nourishment.

a livestock animal that is fed an enriched diet to fatten it for market. Compare stocker(def 2).

a person or device that feeds a machine, printing press, etc.

a tributary stream.

bird feeder.

feeder line.

feeder road.

Also feed. Electricity. a conductor, or group of conductors, connecting primary equipment in an electric power system.

British. a baby's bib.

Theater Slang. straight man.

adjective

being, functioning as, or serving as a feeder.

pertaining to livestock to be fattened for market.

Origin of feeder

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at feed, -er¹

Words nearby feeder

feedback, feedback inhibition, feedback loop, feedbag, feedbox, feeder, feeder line, feeder road, feedgrain, feedhorn, feeding

Example sentences from the Web for feeder

At first Wales and Sanger conceived of Wikipedia merely as an adjunct to Nupedia, sort of like a feeder product or farm team.

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Inside a feeder school for The Family, a secretive global network of evangelical power players.

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So, for that matter, would the recently revealed federal criminal investigation into the feeder funds.

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She then founded the Bank Medici AG in Vienna and used it as a feeder fund for Madoff.

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A feeder fund, unlike a hedge or private-equity fund, does not manage investments.

The Madoff Victims Who Came Out Ahead |Edward Jay Epstein |July 5, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
It is a day feeder, a fact which may be taken advantage of in avoiding exposure to its attacks.

Handbook of Medical Entomology |William Albert Riley
Surmounting the Maat here illustrated is a conspicuous feather which we have already connoted with feeder and fodder.

Archaic England |Harold Bayley
The feeder connections were all at the front of the building, and the general voltage control apparatus was on the floor above.

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The Eider is a day feeder, abroad at dawn, and continuing its labours well into the dusk.

British Sea Birds |Charles Dixon
The feeder gives the first machine another plate; and so the work goes on down a whole line of machines.

Makers of Many Things |Eva March Tappan

British Dictionary definitions for feeder

feeder

/ (ˈfiːdə) /

noun

a person or thing that feeds or is fed

a child's feeding bottle or bib

agriculture, mainly US and Canadian a head of livestock being fattened for slaughter

a person or device that feeds the working material into a system or machine

a tributary channel, esp one that supplies a reservoir or canal with water

a road, service, etc, that links secondary areas to the main traffic network
(as modifier)a feeder bus

a transmission line connecting an aerial to a transmitter or receiver
a power line for transmitting electrical power from a generating station to a distribution network

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