different between feeding vs swallowing

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feeding

feeding (plural feedings)

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

swallowing

swallowing (plural swallowings)

The act of swallowing.
Synonym: deglutition
- 1865, The Hahnemannian Monthly (volume 1, page 354)
  Dryness of the mouth and throat, with frequent empty swallowings.

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