different between feeding vs loading

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi?d??/
• Rhymes: -i?d??

Verb

feeding

1. present participle of feed

Noun

feeding (plural feedings)

1. An instance of giving food.
   • 1750, The Universal Magazine (volume 7, page 52)

     […] they are nevertheless always like the lion's keeper, who, when by long patience, a thousand feedings, and a thousand clawings, he hath made a fierce lion familiar, yet never gives him meat, but with pulling back his hand, always in fear […]

2. An instance of eating (usually said of animals).
3. (dated) That which is eaten; food.
4. (dated) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pastureland.
5. The loading of material into a machine that will process it.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• feigned

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?lo?.di?/
• Hyphenation: loa?ding

Noun

loading (countable and uncountable, plural loadings)

1. (countable, uncountable) The process by which something is loaded.

2. (countable) A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied.
3. (Australia, industrial relations, countable) A hourly pay rate given to a casual employee which is higher than the equivalent full-time or part-time employee's rate, usually paid to compensate for a lack of benefits such as sick leave or annual leave.
4. A weighting or bias.
   • 2013, H. J. Eysenck, Experiments in Personality (volume 2, page 238)

     We may note with some surprise that the hysteria scale has a positive loading on this factor, i.e. is situated towards the normal rather than the neurotic end.

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Hyponyms

Translations

Verb

loading

1. present participle of load

Derived terms

• command-loading

Anagrams

• Galindo, digonal