feed

Plural: feeds

Noun

• food for domestic livestock
• Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
• Something supplied continuously.
• The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
• The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
• A meal.
• A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
• online content presented sequentially:
• antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
• online content presented sequentially:
• content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
• A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.

Verb

Verb Forms: fed, feeding, feeds

• To give food to; to supply with provisions.
• provide as food
  • "Feed the guests the nuts"
• give food to
  • "Feed the starving children in India"
• feed into; supply
  • "Her success feeds her vanity"
• introduce continuously
  • "feed carrots into a food processor"
• support or promote
• take in food; used of animals only
• serve as food for; be the food for
  • "This dish feeds six"
• move along, of liquids
  • "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
• profit from in an exploitatory manner
  • "He feeds on her insecurity"
• gratify
  • "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
• provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
• give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
• To give (someone or something) food to eat.
• To eat (usually of animals).
• To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
• To give to a machine to be processed.
• To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
• To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
• To supply with something.
• To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
• To pass to.
• To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
• To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
• simple past and past participle of fee

Examples

• a satellite feed
• Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby.
• Feed the dog every evening.
• Feed the fish to the dolphins.
• Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
• I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.
• If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
• Nasalization feeds raising.
• She needed to feed her competitive spirit by finding a high-scoring play.
• Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
• Springs feed ponds with water.
• the paper feed of a printer
• They held a crab feed on the beach.
• They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
• We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.

Synonyms

bung, course, eat, feast, fee, feed in, fertilise, fertilize, flow, give, prey, provender, run, tip, nourish

Antonyms

starve

Related Words

FEEDABLE