feeder

Meaning

  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.

Synonyms

self-feeder

feeder line

sheet feeder

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

animal feeder

Frequency

25k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfidɚ/
Etymology

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

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