Word Meanings - ALIMENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal. 2. State or mode of being nourished. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ALIMENTATION)

• Nutrition
• Alimentation
• sustentation
• feeding

Related words: (words related to ALIMENTATION)

• ALIMENTATION
  1. The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal. 2. State or mode of being nourished. Bacon.
• SUSTENTATION
  The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth. Sustentation fund , a fund of a religious body for support of its ministers, chapels, etc.; as, the sustentation fund of the Free
• NUTRITION
  In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth. Note: In this wide sense it comprehends digestion,
• FEEDING
  1. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening. 2. That which is eaten; food. 3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
• FEED
  f, fr. f food; akin to C. f, OFries f, f, D. voeden, OHG. fuottan, 1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. Unreasonable reatures feed their young. Shak. 2.
• NUTRITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.
• FEEDER
  An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith. 2. One
• STALL-FEED
  To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox.
• OVERFEED
  To feed to excess; to surfeit.
• INNUTRITION
  Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment. E. Darwin.
• UNDERFEED
  To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.
• SUPERALIMENTATION
  The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it.
• DENUTRITION
  The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.
• KNIFEEDGE; KNIFE-EDGE
  A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of
• MALNUTRITION
  Faulty or imperfect nutrition.