feeding

1. The act of consuming food (synset 100840028)
   is a type of: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
   subtypes:

   • mycophagy - the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)
   • bite, chomp - the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
   • browse, browsing - the act of feeding by continual nibbling
   • coprophagia, coprophagy - eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity
   • dining - the act of eating dinner
   • engorgement - eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
   • banqueting, feasting - eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)
   • graze, grazing - the act of grazing
   • 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
   • necrophagia, necrophagy - feeding on corpses or carrion
   • omophagia - the eating of raw food
   • scatophagy - the eating of excrement or other filth
   has: chew, chewing, manduction, mastication - biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
   same as: eating
2. The act of supplying food and nourishment (synset 101059683)
   is a type of: provision, supply, supplying - the activity of supplying or providing something
   subtypes:

   • lactation, suckling - feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast
   • infant feeding - feeding an infant
   • 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
   • overfeeding - excessive feeding
   • 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
   same as: alimentation

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