different between feeder vs supplier

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)

1. One who feeds, or gives food to another.
   1. 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.

2. 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; […]
3. 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.

4. That which is used to feed.

   a bird feeder

5. 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.

6. A branch line of a railway.
7. A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
8. (education) A feeder school.
9. (shipbuilding, navigation) A feeder ship.
10. (US, law) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
11. (baseball, slang, archaic, 1800s) The pitcher.
12. (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.
13. (obsolete) One who abets another.
14. (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)

1. spider

   Synonym: doo-oallee

2. 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

English

Etymology

supply +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??pla??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Noun

supplier (plural suppliers)

1. One who supplies; a provider.
2. (soccer) Someone who assists (sets up) a goal.

Related terms

• supplement
• supply

Translations

See also

• provider
• purveyor
• vendor

Anagrams

• periplus

French

Etymology

Modified based on the original Latin prefix sup-, from Old French souploier, sosploier, from Latin supplic?re, present active infinitive of supplic?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pli.je/

Verb

supplier

1. (transitive) to implore, to beseech, to beg

Conjugation

Related terms

• supplication

Further reading

• “supplier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Verb

supplier

1. second-person singular imperative of supplieren