feeder

Significat (Anglès)

1. One who feeds, or gives food to another.
2. One who feeds, or gives food to another.
3. One who feeds, or takes in food.
4. One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
5. That which is used to feed.
6. A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
7. A branch line of a railway.
8. A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
9. Short for feeder school.
10. A feeder ship.
11. A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
12. (slang) The pitcher.
13. 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.
14. (obsolete) One who abets another.
15. (obsolete) A parasite.

Sinònims

confluent

affluent

tributary

eater

self-feeder

birdfeeder

bird feeder

hopper

dispenser

distributary

feed

feeder line

feeding

forwarder

lead

maintainer

nourisher

offset

pecker

power supply

protector

ramification

riser

sheet feeder

supply

transporter

tributary stream

onflow

one who feeds

charging device

feeding device

page feeder

feed apparatus

feeding box

side stream

pushing device

gate runner

running channel

wire feeding device

tributary waterway

tributary flow

tributary drain

tributary course

branched lode

bunk-feeder

gun charger

towveyor

feeder-conveyer

admission

animal feeder

bib

branch

branching

bypass

contributory

conveyer

diner

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈfidɚ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: feedere

In summary

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.