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feed
[ feed ]
verb (used with object)
- to give food to; supply with nourishment:
to feed a child.
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- to yield or serve as food for:
This land has fed 10 generations.
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- to provide as food.
- to furnish for consumption.
- to satisfy; minister to; gratify:
Poetry feeds the imagination.
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- to supply for maintenance or operation, as to a machine:
to feed paper into a photocopier.
- to provide with the necessary materials for development, maintenance, or operation:
to feed a printing press with paper.
- to use (land) as pasture.
- Theater Informal.
- to supply (an actor, especially a comedian) with lines or action, the responses to which are expected to elicit laughter.
- to provide cues to (an actor).
- Chiefly British. to prompt:
Stand in the wings and feed them their lines.
- Radio and Television. to distribute (a local broadcast) via satellite or network.
verb (used without object)
- (especially of animals) to take food; eat:
cows feeding in a meadow; to feed well.
- to be nourished or gratified; subsist:
to feed on grass; to feed on thoughts of revenge.
noun
- food, especially for farm animals, as cattle, horses or chickens.
- an allowance, portion, or supply of such food.
- Informal. a meal, especially a lavish one.
- the act of feeding.
- the act or process of feeding a furnace, machine, etc.
- the material, or the amount of it, so fed or supplied.
- a feeding mechanism.
- Electricity. feeder ( def 10 ).
- Theater Informal.
- a line spoken by one actor, the response to which by another actor is expected to cause laughter.
- an actor, especially a straight man, who provides such lines.
- a local television broadcast distributed by satellite or network to a much wider audience, especially nationwide or international.
- Digital Technology.
- a website or application that publishes updates from social media or news-collection websites in reverse chronological order:
I follow all of the latest celebrity gossip in my Twitter feed.
- an XML-based web document that is updated automatically at predetermined intervals and includes descriptive titles or short descriptions and links to recent pages on a website:
Subscribe to news feeds to get the latest news from around the world.
feed
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verb
- to give food to
to feed the cat
- to give as food
to feed meat to the cat
- intr to eat food
the horses feed at noon
- to provide food for
these supplies can feed 10 million people
- to provide what is necessary for the existence or development of
to feed one's imagination
- to gratify; satisfy
to feed one's eyes on a beautiful sight
- also intr to supply (a machine, furnace, etc) with (the necessary materials or fuel) for its operation, or (of such materials) to flow or move forwards into a machine, etc
- to use (land) as grazing
- informal.theatre to cue (an actor, esp a comedian) with lines or actions
- sport to pass a ball to (a team-mate)
- electronics to introduce (electrical energy) into a circuit, esp by means of a feeder
- also intr; foll by on or upon to eat or cause to eat
noun
- the act or an instance of feeding
- food, esp that of animals or babies
- the process of supplying a machine or furnace with a material or fuel
- the quantity of material or fuel so supplied
- computing a facility allowing web users to receive news headlines and updates on their browser from a website as soon as they are published
- the rate of advance of a cutting tool in a lathe, drill, etc
- a mechanism that supplies material or fuel or controls the rate of advance of a cutting tool
- informal.theatre a performer, esp a straight man, who provides cues
- informal.a meal
Derived Forms
- ˈڱ岹, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ڱa· adjective
- dzܳЭ verb (used with object) outfed outfeeding
- ·ڱ verb refed refeeding
- un·ڱa· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of feed1
Idioms and Phrases
- chain feed, to pass (work) successively into a machine in such a manner that each new piece is held in place by or connected to the one before.
- off one's feed, Slang.
- reluctant to eat; without appetite.
- dejected; sad.
- not well; ill.
More idioms and phrases containing feed
- bite the hand that feeds you
- chicken feed
- off one's feed
- put on the feed bag
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
To feed its propaganda apparatus and pay for the "brownshirts," Nazi militias who stalked Germany's streets "discouraging" opposition, the party needed money it didn't have.
"There is no stigma to asking for help to feed a pet," said Diane James, from the Blue Cross.
He is fed by a feeding tube and has a life limiting condition.
The United States will have a sphere of influence and we will cede Europe to Putin as his sphere of influence and feed perhaps Asia to China.
Like their male counterparts in online Christian discourse, Halili and Reitsma don't seem much interested in Christian doctrines about feeding the poor, healing the sick or welcoming the stranger.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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