In a frenzy, people go into a state of hysteria. Away from hungry sharks or kids at a 16th birthday party when the pizza arrives if you don't want to get caught up in a feeding frenzy. Frenzy is derived from the Latin word phreneticus meaning 'delirious.' If you're in a frenzy, you're certainly delirious. You can be in a frenzy because. Frenzy definition is - a temporary madness. How to use frenzy in a sentence.
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feed
(fēd) v.tr.1.a. To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children.
b. To provide as food or nourishment: fed fish to the cat.
2. a. To serve as food for: The turkey is large enough to feed a dozen.
b. To produce food for: The valley feeds an entire county.
3. a. To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer.
b. To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation: Melting snow feeds the reservoirs.
c. To transmit (media content) by means of a communications network or satellite, as for processing or distribution.
4. a. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid.
b. To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions.
6. Sports To pass a ball or puck to (a teammate), especially to set up a scoring chance.
v.intr.1. To eat. Used of animals: pigs feeding at a trough.
2. To be nourished or supported: an ego that feeds on flattery.
Feeding Frenzy Idiom Meaning
3.a. To move steadily, as into a machine for processing.
b. To be channeled; flow: This road feeds into the freeway.
n.1. b. The amount of such food given at one time.
2. Informal A meal, especially a large one: We had a great feed at the restaurant.
3. The act of providing food, especially to an animal: food given at one feed.
4. a. Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace.
5. a. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.
b. The aperture through which such material enters a machine.
6. a. The transmission or conveyance of published content, as by satellite, on the internet, or by broadcast over a network of stations.
b. A signal or program made by means of such transmission: The satellite feed was garbled due to sunspot activity.
7. Sports A pass of a ball or puck, especially to set up a scoring chance.
Idiom: be off (one's) feedTo have lost one's appetite: The dog is off its feed this week.
[Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan; see pā- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
feeding
(ˈfiːdɪŋ)n
| Noun | 1. | feeding - the act of consuming food 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) consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) chomp, bite - the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws browsing, browse - the act of feeding by continual nibbling coprophagia, coprophagy - eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity engorgement - eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation banqueting, feasting - eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) 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 scatophagy - the eating of excrement or other filth |
| 2. | feeding - the act of supplying food and nourishment lactation, suckling - feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast supplying, provision, supply - the activity of supplying or providing something 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 spoonfeeding - feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon hyperalimentation, total parenteral nutrition, TPN - administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes |
feeding
[ˈfiːdɪŋ]B.CPDfeeding bottleN (esp Brit) → biberónm
feeding frenzyNthe birds engage in a feeding frenzy → los pájarosinician un frenéticofestín
she was caught in a media feeding frenzy → se vioconvertidaen el centro de una atenciónfebril por partede losmedios de comunicación
feeding groundN (lit) → fuentef de alimentación (fig) → minafde oro
the factory will soon be a feeding ground for lawyers → la fábrica será pronto una minade oro para los abogados
feeding timeN (at zoo) → horaf de comer; (baby's) (= time for breast feed) → horafdelpecho; (= time for bottle feed) → horafdelbiberón
feeding frenzyNthe birds engage in a feeding frenzy → los pájarosinician un frenéticofestín
she was caught in a media feeding frenzy → se vioconvertidaen el centro de una atenciónfebril por partede losmedios de comunicación
feeding groundN (lit) → fuentef de alimentación (fig) → minafde oro
the factory will soon be a feeding ground for lawyers → la fábrica será pronto una minade oro para los abogados
feeding timeN (at zoo) → horaf de comer; (baby's) (= time for breast feed) → horafdelpecho; (= time for bottle feed) → horafdelbiberón
feeding
[ˈfiːdɪŋ]n [person, animal] → alimentationffeeding bottle n(British) → biberonmfeeding frenzy nThe press was in a feeding frenzy → La presse s'est déchaînée.feeding time n [breast-fed baby] → heurefde latétée; [bottle-fed baby] → heuref du biberon; [
animals] (in zoo) → heuref de nourrir les animauxfeeding
:feeding bottle
feeding cup
feeding frenzyn(fig)the press was in a feeding → die Presseriss sich um die Story
feeding ground
feeding timen (for animal) → Fütterungszeitf; (for baby) → Zeitf → für die Mahlzeit; the baby’s feeding was still an hour away → die nächsteMahlzeit des Säuglings war erst in einer Stundefällig
feed·ing
n. alimentación;enteral ___ → ___ enteral;
forced ___ → ___ forzada;
rectal ___ → ___ por el recto;
Feeding Frenzy Catering
feeding
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