refeed

The process of giving food again.

Noun

  1. The process of giving food again.
    • For this reason, you may wish to schedule a refeed on a day when you're not working, so that you're not dealing with the fatigue that can accompany wide blood sugar swings. - 2005, Lyle McDonald, A Guide To Flexible...
  2. The feeding of material back into a machine.
  3. A retransmission.
    • During the current season, PBS will transmit […] 1,482 hours of program transmission and 2,366 hours of refeeds, station services, and regional split. - 1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and...
    • The network also provides a refeed of programs which schools feel warrant repeating […] - Pennsylvania Public Television Network Commission, Annual Report - Volume 7, Parts 1974-1975

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English feed English refeed From re- + feed.

Forms

refeeds

Verb

  1. To feed (a person or organism) again, especially after a period of starvation or malnourishment.
    • The group of volunteers who received a relatively small increment in calories during refeeding (400 calories more than during semistarvation) had no rise in BMR for the first 3 weeks. - 1997, David M. Garner,...
    • It's natural if you are coming out of a dieted state to see a rapid surge in appetite as you begin refeeding. - 2013, Matt Stone, Diet Recovery 2, page 47:
  2. To feed (material) back into a machine.
  3. To feed material back into (a machine).
    • The printer was refed with paper.

Forms

refeeds refeeding refed

Derived

refeeder refeeding syndrome