wild feed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A private satellite transmission of broadcast material, not meant for public viewing.
Countable; Uncountable
verb
To forage for food in the wild; to eat from naturally occurring sources rather than domestically-produced food.
Example Sentences
- "There's probably enough wild feed for them growing around the place you're going."
- "Llamas typically carry smaller loads than horses and mules and cannot be pushed as hard, but they are trained to walk untethered in a caravan and can subsist on local wild feed."
- "Framestores avoid the danger of genlocking the studio to an outside source and add a smoothness to switching in or overlaying the wild feed without picture breakup."
- "Kavin Rafferty and James Ridgeway;s documentary is an invaluable look at the early days of the 1992 presidential election through a collection of wild feeds, affording us glimpses of the real men behind the well-crafted facades they present to the public."
- "She was watching the wild feed from Paris on the last day of September."
- "Hence, although an animal is able to maximize its energy gain from provisioning to an extent impossible in wild feeding, when energy returns decrease in relation to greater social stress it may no longer be profitable for an animal to stay around the provisioning site."