1A person or animal that eats a particular food or in a particular manner.

以浮游生物为食物的动物。

2A container filled with food for birds or mammals.

1. 2.1British A child's feeding bottle.
   〈英〉奶瓶
2. 2.2British A bib for an infant.
   〈英〉围涎，围嘴
3. 2.3Fishing
   short for swimfeeder

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Fishing a cage feeder and baiting with lob worm tails, he managed to tempt a brace of bream, plus a few roach and eels, for his winning net of 12 lb.
   • Fishing a caster feeder with worm he took his fish in the first two hours.
   • I cast a small feeder in to settle just where the deep water shelves up.
   • Fishing a caster feeder across to the moored boats opposite he netted skimmers and roach.
   • Feeder fishing with a groundbait feeder and bread hook bait often produces good bags of bream from this section.
   • We used a variety of tactics ranging from the open-end feeder with bread to the stick float with maggots.
   • Don't bother with blockend feeders, take just open enders with you as you will be using groundbait to plug the feeder containing chopped worms and casters.
   • Now wind in until you judge the feeder lies exactly in the swim, noting how many turns of the reel handle it takes.
   • The feeder is then baited by squeezing a ball of groundbait around it quite hard, and then you are ready to go.
   • However I am writing for the average angler so a feeder with a single hook is a better option.
   • Fishing a groundbait feeder with corn on peg eight he netted five small carp and a solitary chub.
   • Fishing a groundbait feeder with casters and red maggot he found lots of small fish for a winning 8lb 15 oz net.
   • The chub and barbel often appear at night when they can be caught on legered meat baits or block-end feeders with maggots.
   • He fished a groundbait feeder with maggot for eight roach and a solitary eel for 2lb 10 oz.
   • I prefer the groundbait feeder with bread in clear water, switching to the block end filled with maggots in coloured water.
   • However flow rates were so slow that at times I did not use an open feeder.
   • Offering worm on the feeder, he took a bream plus a few small roach for 2lb 13 oz.
   • There are situations however when a big bodied waggler can outscore the feeder.
   • Fishing a groundbait feeder with chopped worm he fished redworm on the hook tempting small carp and tench.
   • Both anglers used small groundbait feeders with maggot and pinkie for nets of small roach.

3A person or thing that supplies something.

1. 3.1 A device supplying material to a machine.
   进料器，给料器
   the automatic sheet feeder holds up to 10 sheets of paper

   这种自动给纸器可装十张纸。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Material entering the feeder becomes locked between the disks and is conveyed around to a discharge point as the spool rotates.
   • He didn't have to worry about checking the feeder's supply.
   • The question is all the more relevant since many of these devices also have a document feeder, a memory card reader, a color fax, etc.
   • It's also a noticeably faster process using the document feeder - even if just a series of one-page results are being scanned into different charts.
   • The normal wire feeder and power supply used for aluminum welding will be suitable for welding magnesium.
   • At lunch time the engine driver and the mill feeder had their lunch first and then while the others ate their lunch the driver oiled up the machine.
   • But it also has a 50-sheet paper feeder, a feature that usually comes on multifunction devices at a significantly higher cost.
   • Many processors use a fruit feeder to add inclusions to the ice cream mix.
2. 3.2 A tributary stream.
   支流
   Example sentencesExamples

   • That the river that runs through Mayobridge is a feeder to the Clanrye river that flows through Newry.
   • Even when his dad caught a nine-pound brown trout on a small feeder stream, it didn't cause much excitement around town.
   • I am aware that otters, an excellent indicator of good water quality, are returning to the feeder stream and the lake that Mr Dixon alleges is being poisoned.
   • She wondered why salmon were disappearing from the little creek behind her house, a feeder stream of the Columbia River.
   • I suppose it could have got in from the feeder stream.
   • And while proclaiming the best fishing spot is a sure way to start an argument in Minnesota, the river and its feeder streams are hard to beat for native trout.
   • With the first big rain of the year, a torrent of mud, silt, and debris had swept down the feeder stream.

   Synonyms

   headwater, branch, side stream
3. 3.3usually as modifier A branch road or railway line linking outlying districts with a main communication system.
   （连接偏远地区与主要交通系统的）支路；（铁路或航空等）支线
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Monorail is a decent feeder system and should be used in conjunction with the bus system.
   • First introduced on the main feeder roads to Dublin, the turnpike system spread rapidly.
   • He said in an interview yesterday that the government only worked on one main feeder road, leaving out those that linked farmers to the rest of the province.
   • Meanwhile, a road contractor who was engaged to rehabilitate the feeder road is reported to have abandoned the project.
   • It most certainly is not an additional feeder lane onto the main carriageway.
   • He said the city administration should continue with plans to develop 15 busway corridors across the city, as well as feeder lines.
   • Some contractors have been awarded contracts to rehabilitate feeder roads in rural areas while others have been engaged to undertake road works for major roads.
   • The potholed six-mile feeder road leading from the east-coast highway to Quilesse takes an hour to drive.
   • These roads act as a main feeder road onto the Inner Ring Road with many commercial trucks and heavy goods vehicles using the road on a daily basis.
   • They must be aware that this road is a main feeder road to the South Coast and many people use it to stop off at Marlborough.
   • Chanda says agricultural production can be increased if rural infrastructure like feeder roads, dams and irrigation systems are improved.
   • The main feeder line to Bangalore passes through this region and it will be tapped at a suitable point to bring water to a ground-level reservoir that is being constructed.
   • Railway operators provided feeder bus services for their passengers, and this put more pressure on minibus and taxi services.
   • The massive subsidies presently sunk in state road transport undertakings should be released for improving the network of State highways and rural feeder roads.
   • Poor marketing systems, a poor feeder road network, inadequate extension services accessed by farmers and inadequate inputs have hampered agricultural development.
   • He said his ministry would grade all feeder roads in readiness for the marketing season.
   • With the new plan, travelling within the city promises to be a seamless journey designed around hubs which act as feeders to each other.
   • Senior officials stressed that the company confined itself to trunk services, and expected smaller regional or national carriers to provide feeder services on branch routes.
   • The island would come up on the tank between the railway line and the small feeder road (that connects the bypass road with Tiruchi Road).
   • They are the main feeder routes into national roads.
4. 3.4 A main carrying electricity to a distribution point.
   馈电线，馈路
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The two feeders supplying the town with power transmit through the diesel generation station at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Front Street.
   • And work has started on a new $250,000 feeder to upgrade electricity supplies to the southern end of the Central business district.
   • Sources said the earthing wire on the cable carrying power from the power supply feeder snapped this morning.
   • He said after the demand for irrigation of paddy crop was met in the next couple of days, normal power supply to urban feeders would be restored.
   • Stay on the line if you want to report a fallen powerline or live on a rural feeder and have lost power supply.
5. 3.5usually as modifier A school, sports team, etc. from which members move on to one more advanced.
   预备学校（或运动队等）
   a sixth-form college and its feeder schools

   一所六年制学院及其预备学校。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The association's aim is to provide coaching support for teachers at Ilkley Grammar School and its feeder primary schools to make competitive rugby more widely available to young people in the community.
   • Firstly, it will engage pupils from our own school, and from feeder primaries, in active citizenship work in their local community.
   • I didn't remember him from middle school and yeah, he could be from a different school, but how many feeder schools did my high school have?
   • I would prefer that we owned our own identity and that we weren't perceived by the players and public as a feeder team to the greater cause.
   • Work is due to start on-site in January and the new primary school, which will be one of the feeder schools for the academy, will open next September.
   • But if lots of clubs leave the feeder leagues then those competitions will be devalued.
   • The youths are, inevitably, a feeder team for the adult side - hence the attention being devoted to them.
   • The award is also a boost for the high school's four primary feeder schools, St Andrews, St Chads, St Johns, Clifton, and Withinfields.
   • And I think a lot of clubs in the feeder league feel the same.
   • ‘We didn't have the advantage of coming up through a feeder system like men do,’ Luke remarks.
   • Another idea being floated is that domestic competitions would act as feeder leagues in the new set-up, with annual relegation and promotion play-offs.
   • The four targeted schools educate kindergarten up to Grade 4 students and are feeder schools to larger elementary schools.
   • In my view there seem to be umpteen benefits for bigger clubs having feeder teams.
   • St Mary's Secondary School in Ballina is one of the leading university feeder schools in the county according to recently published league tables.
   • Professional soccer needs to set up a system much like major league baseball's farm teams, feeder clubs from which local heroes can create a fan base as they move up the ladder.
   • This striker comes from Liverpool's unofficial feeder club.
   • Having said that, in the United States, with its college feeder system and supporters who are not bound to a team at birth, the system works.
   • We will have to enter into discussions with those feeder leagues after the meeting of chairmen from our league next Thursday.
   • It's moving toward becoming a feeder league, like, for instance, Uruguay - but without the big crowds.