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feeder
English
Etymology
From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fid?/
- Rhymes: -i?d?(r)
Noun
feeder (plural feeders)
- One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- 2010, Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies:
- 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.
- 2010, Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies:
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- One who feeds, or takes in food.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene v:
- The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,
- Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
- More than the wild-cat; […]
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene v:
- One who, or that which, feeds material into something.
- 2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, The Shield and the Shark (page 173)
- 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.
- 2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, The Shield and the Shark (page 173)
- That which is used to feed.
- a bird feeder
- A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
- 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:
- 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.
- 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:
- A branch line of a railway.
- A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
- (education) A feeder school.
- (shipbuilding, navigation) A feeder ship.
- (US, law) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
- (baseball, slang, archaic, 1800s) The pitcher.
- (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.
- (obsolete) One who abets another.
- (obsolete) A parasite.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- ferede, reefed, refeed
Manx
Etymology
From Middle Irish *figedóir (“weaver”) (compare Irish fíodóir, Scottish Gaelic figheadair), from figid (“weaves, plaits, intertwines”, verb); synchronically, fee +? -der.
Noun
feeder m (genitive singular feeder, plural feederyn)
- spider
- Synonym: doo-oallee
- weaver
Mutation
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “figedóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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section
- See Wiktionary:Entry layout for the Wiktionary style guide for sections
English
Etymology
From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectio (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secare (“to cut”). More at saw.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: s?k?sh?n, IPA(key): /?s?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
- Hyphenation: sec?tion
Noun
section (plural sections)
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- A part of a document.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- (surgery, colloquial) Short for Caesarean section.
- (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (category theory) A right inverse.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
- (US, historical) Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
Synonyms
- (botany, zoology): sectio
- cutting, slice, snippet
- division, part, slice, piece
- volume
Antonyms
- whole
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
- (aviation): waterline, buttock line
Derived terms
- bisection
- dissection
- sectionman
- trisection
Related terms
Translations
Verb
section (third-person singular simple present sections, present participle sectioning, simple past and past participle sectioned) (transitive)
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 45:
- Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). […] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.
- a. 2000, Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition, Routledge (2000), ?ISBN, page xiv:
- The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.
- 2006, Mairi Colme, A Divine Dance of Madness, Chipmunkapublishing, ?ISBN, page 5:
- After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- […]
- Synonym: (Australia) schedule
- 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 45:
- (medical): To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- 2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16:
- "But if she's gone into active labour she could be bleeding massively and you may have to section her there and then."
- 2008, Murray et al, Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Springer Publishing Company, page 57:
- You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."
- 2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16:
Translations
Further reading
- section in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- section in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- section at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- ecotins, noetics, notices
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin secti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?k.sj??/
Noun
section f (plural sections)
- section (all meanings)
Further reading
- “section” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- notices
Interlingua
Etymology
From secar +? -ion, alternatively borrowed from Latin secti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sek?ti?on/
Noun
section (plural sectiones)
- (act of) cutting
- (surgery) section (all meanings)
- section
- separation by cutting
- portion, division, subdivision
- (natural history, military, etc.) section
- (geometry, drawing, etc.) section
Derived terms
- dissection
- intersection
- resection
- trisection
- vivisection
- sectionar
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