feed
IPA: fˈid
noun
- (uncountable) 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.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
verb
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- (figurative) 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.
- (sports, transitive) To pass to.
- (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
- (syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
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Examples of "feed" in Sentences
- I'm feeding the ferret.
- The dog is feeding the puppies.
- Feeding the kitty is always not easy.
- It feeds on the flowers of the orchid.
- Adulteration of animal feed is reported.
- The food was bounty enough to feed the needy.
- The give away is the feeding of the chicken via syringe.
- You have to choose the right food when feeding your pets.
- Don Vino gives Luming when she is feeding her a lot of jewelry.
- The capstan feed mode is established by feeding the yarn away from the nip.
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