From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[Feeder (disambiguation)]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], [enm], equivalent to [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One who feed s, or gives food to another.
1. The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee ).
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2010 | author=Niall Richardson | title=Transgressive Bodies
|passage=Often similes such as 'soft as velvet' or 'fluffy like a cloud' will
be employed and the FEEDER will describe how he feels he can be lost in the
enveloping folds of soft flesh.}}
1. One who feed s, or takes in food.
2. * [II]
3. * [en]
4. One who, or that which, [en] material into something (especially a [en] ).
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2007 | author=Thomas E. Lightburn | title=The Shield and the Shark | page=173
|passage=When the claxon sounded they immediately stopped what they were doing
and uncovered the Oerlikon. Paddy, who was ammunition FEEDER, stood by while
Jock trained the 20mm gun around.}}
1. That which is used to feed .
2. A tributary stream , especially of a canal .
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1827 | author=w:Conrad Malte-Brun | title=Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan | location=Edinburgh | publisher=Adam Black | section=volume 6, book 101, [LkYNAQAAIAAJ]
|passage=The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less
than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal FEEDER
is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively
to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.}}
1. A branch line of a railway .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation , or for a transmitter .
5. [en] [en] .
6. [en] A feeder ship .
7. [en] A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court .
8. [en] The pitcher .
9. [en] 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.
10. [en] One who abet s another.
11. * [II]
12. [en] A parasite .
13. [en] [en] .
**** Derived terms
{{col4|en|snake feeder |feederism |nonfeeder |overfeeder |underfeeder |feeder
cattle |feeder fish |feeder fund |feeder head |feederliner |feeder
reservoir|feeder line |feeder school |barfeeder |birdfeeder (bird feeder)
|boobfeeder |bottlefeeder (bottle feeder, bottle-feeder) |bottom feeder
[(bottom-feeder )] |breastfeeder |filter feeder (filter-feeder) |fluid feeder
|foul feeder |wedge-feeder }}
**** Translations
[that which feeds]
- Finnish: [fi] [device] , [fi] [person]
[trans-bottom]
[that which is used to feed]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] [active device] , [fi] [passive device]
- Hungarian: [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[tributary stream]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[railway branch line]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Malay: [ms]
[trans-bottom]
[transmission line]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[baseball: pitcher]
*** References
- [R:Lexico]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]