English Dictionary

feeder

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfidɚ/

名詞

アメリカ英語 古語 俗語 軽蔑的 廃用

One who feeds, or gives food to another. / The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee). / One who feeds, or takes in food. / One who, or that which, feeds material into something.

日本語の意味

他者に餌を与える人、またはその役割のもの / フィーダリズムにおいて、相手に餌を与える側の参加者 / 食物を摂るために給餌される人、あるいは給餌する存在 / 何かに素材や材料を供給するもの（機械なども含む）

As the shelter's main feeder, Maria arrived every morning to make sure the animals had fresh food.

その保護施設で主に動物に餌を与える人として、マリアは毎朝動物たちに新しい餌があるか確認していた。

意味（1）

One who feeds, or gives food to another.

意味（2）

The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).

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.

意味（3）

One who feeds, or takes in food.

The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wild-cat; […]

意味（4）

One who, or that which, feeds material into something.

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.

意味（5）

That which is used to feed.

a bird feeder

意味（6）

A tributary stream, especially of a canal.

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.

意味（7）

A branch line of a railway.

This line, described as a valuable feeder to the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, was opened on July 8, 1836, and superseded the older wagonway.

意味（8）

A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.

意味（9）

(education) A feeder school.

意味（10）

(shipbuilding, navigation) A feeder ship.

意味（11）

(US, law) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.

意味（12）

(baseball, slang, archaic, 1800s) The pitcher.

意味（13）

(video games, derogatory) 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.

意味（14）

(obsolete) One who abets another.

Go with me; if you like upon report The soil, the profit, and this kind of life, I will your very faithful feeder be, And buy it with your gold right suddenly.

意味（15）

(obsolete) A parasite.

feeders （ plural ）