Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfiːd/
feed (feeds, present participle feeding; past and past participle fed)
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- Feed the dog every evening.
- Bible, Epistle to the Romans 12:20
- If thine enemy hunger, feed him.
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175 ↗:
- But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- Feed the fish to the dolphins.
- 2012 December 25 (airdate), Steven Moffat, The Snowmen (Doctor Who)
- DR SIMEON: I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to.
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
- We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.
- (figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene iii:
- If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
- feeding him with the hope of liberty
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene iii:
- To supply with something.
- Springs feed ponds with water.
- To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
- Once in three years feed your mowing lands.
- (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.
- Nasalization feeds raising.
- (syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
- (to give food to eat) nourish
- French: nourrir, alimenter
- German: ernähren; (with babies, animals, etc.) füttern
- Italian: nutrire, alimentare, (please verify) fare#Italian|fare mangiare attention it
- Portuguese: alimentar
- Russian: корми́ть
- Spanish: alimentar, dar de comer
- French: alimenter
- German: füttern, einspeisen
- Italian: alimentare
- Portuguese: alimentar
- Russian: подава́ть
- Spanish: alimentar
feed
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
- They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- Something supplied continuously.
- a satellite feed
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- the paper feed of a printer
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
- They held a crab feed on the beach.
- (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
- 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.
- French: alimentation, nourriture
- German: Futter
- Portuguese: ração
- Russian: корм
- Spanish: pienso
- French: flux
- German: Einspeisung
- Portuguese: alimento
- Russian: пода́ча
- Spanish: señal
- Italian: feed
- Portuguese: feed
- Russian: новостна́я ле́нта
- Spanish: feed
- Simple past tense and past participle of fee
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