alimentar
feed ; fuel ; nurture ; nourish ; stoke (up).
The computer merely needs to be fed with the source documents and their citation, and with the appropriate software, will generate the indexes.
This is in line with recent trends in the historical sciences generally fuelled by the feeling that in the past historians did not pay enough attention to what is, after all, the majority of humanity.
Studying the leisure reading preferences of teens can help library media specialists develop collections and programs that nurture a lifelong love of reading.
The library's mission must be further nourished and refined, for philosophy is not an idle pastime - it is a foundation and rationale for human endeavor.
The media have regularly stoked public feelings of shame by affirming that English football fans are synonymous with hooliganism, overlooking the fact that not all fans are 'hooligans'.
alimentar a la fuerza
force-feed
We ask those who force-feed geese and ducks to stop carrying out this abusive practice.
alimentar datos [En el entorno informático, introducir información en un catálogo, base de datos, tabla, recurso, etc]
populate
The author considers four models of how physical catalogues are constructed and populated.
alimentar el espíritu
refresh + the spirit
The library throughout history has been a place to study, to gain information, to refresh the spirit and to communicate with the wise men and women of the past and the present.
alimentar el fuego
feed + the fire
Clair lets Luther out, leaving the door slightly ajar, before feeding the fire and starting on the coffee.
alimentar el odio
fuel + hatred
Equally powerful is the capacity of words to propagandize, create distrust, fuel hatred, or manipulate peoples' opinions in support of foregone political agendas.
alimentar la esperanza
nurture + hope
kindle + hope
The article has the title 'The meaning of hope and generic caring practices to nurture hope in a rural village in the Dominican Republic' = El artículo tiene el título "El significado de la esperanza y de las ayudas humanitarias de tipo general para dar esperanza a una población rural de la República Dominicada.
Consumers are snapping back to life, kindling springtime hopes that the recession is losing steam.
alimentarse
graze (on)
Whereas, before, the land was dense with stately white pines, now apple, plum, pear, peach, and cherry orchards stood in regimented rows and cattle grazed peacefully.
alimentarse de
thrive on
feast on
prey on/upon
It thrives on ambiguity, irony, paradox, which bring the disparate and hitherto unconnected into relationship, revealing new shades of meaning, or refreshing the worn, the tired, the cliched.
The author reports work since 1991 on building information carnivores, which intelligently hunt and feast on herbivores in Unix, on the Internet, and on the WWW.
In the semi-arid central plateau, tortoises are commonly preyed upon by raptors, some of which roost on ledges in the backs of small rock shelters.
alimentarse del aire
feed on + air
Lichens are not parasitical, but instead feed on air, dust and ambient moisture.
animal que se alimenta filtrando plancton
filter feeder
All barnacles are filter feeders - extending feathery legs into the water at high tide to comb plankton from the water.
