different between nutrition vs feeding

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nutrition, from Old French nutricion, from Latin nutritio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: nyo?o-tr??-sh?n, IPA^(key): /nju??t??.??n/
• (US) enPR: no?o-tr??-sh?n, IPA^(key): /nu?t??.??n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

nutrition (usually uncountable, plural nutritions)

1. (biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
2. That which nourishes; nutriment.

Derived terms

• nutritional
• nutritionalist
• nutritionally
• nutritionism
• nutritionist

Related terms

• nutrient
• nutritious
• nutriture

Translations

See also

• nutrition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin n?tr?ti?, n?tr?ti?nem, from Latin n?tri?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ny.t?i.sj??/

Noun

nutrition f (plural nutritions)

1. nutrition

Related terms

• nourrir

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

nutrition (uncountable)

1. nutrition

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