feeder vs subalternate

feeder

noun
  • One who feeds, or gives food to another. 

  • A tributary stream, especially of a canal. 

  • A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter. 

  • A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court. 

  • A feeder ship. 

  • The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee). 

  • A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side. 

  • A branch line of a railway. 

  • That which is used to feed. 

  • One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine). 

  • One who feeds, or takes in food. 

subalternate

noun
  • A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one. 

adj
  • Succeeding by turns; successive. 

  • Subaltern; inferior; subordinate. 

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