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# feeder

«feeder» in Mova's school dictionary: **a container that holds food for birds or animals** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a feeder, feeders); adjective (feeder)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A feeder is a container that holds food for birds or animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feeder/#m1)

2) An animal or person that eats in a particular way: «a messy feeder», «a night feeder». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feeder/#m2)

3) A feeder road, river or school sends people or things into a bigger one: a feeder school sends pupils to a secondary school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feeder/#m3)

4) A device that feeds material into a machine, like a paper feeder in a printer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feeder/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature at home: bird feeders in the garden help birds in winter. In school life, «feeder schools» send children to a bigger school. Phrases: «bird feeder», «feeder school», «feeder road».

### examples

- We hung a bird feeder outside the classroom window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feeder/#x1)
- Blue tits and robins visit our feeder every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feeder/#x2)
- Our primary is a feeder school for the high school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feeder/#x3)
- The baby is a messy feeder! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feeder/#x4)
- Caterpillars are hungry feeders that munch leaves all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feeder/#x5)
- The paper feeder on the printer is jammed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feeder/#x6)

### note

Plural «feeders». From «feed» + «-er». Keep feeders clean so birds do not get sick.

### In the corpora

- [Squirrels are skilled acrobats that solve puzzles to reach bird feeders, and some people build squirrel obstacle courses for fun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «feeder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feeder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.