Feed
WordNet
noun
(1) Food for domestic livestock
verb
(2) Introduce continuously
"Feed carrots into a food processor"
(3) Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
"We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
(4) Give food to
"Feed the starving children in India"
"Don't give the child this tough meat"
(5) Take in food; used of animals only
"This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"
"What do whales eat?"
(6) Serve as food for; be the food for
"This dish feeds six"
(7) Feed into; supply
"Her success feeds her vanity"
(8) Provide as food
"Feed the guests the nuts"
(9) Gratify
"Feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
(10) Profit from in an exploitatory manner
"He feeds on her insecurity"
(11) Move along, of liquids
"Water flowed into the cave"
"The Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
(12) Support or promote
"His admiration fed her vanity"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
fēdan, from Germanic. Cognate with Danish , Dutch voeden, Swedish föda.
Verb
- to give food to eat, nurture
- Feed the dog every evening.
- to eat (usually of animals)
- Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
- 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.
Noun
- Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
- They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- Something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed.
- A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
- They held a crab feed on the beach.
- Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that you can subscribe to with a feed reader.
Related terms
- feed dog
- feeding frenzy
- feedstock
- give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
- misfeed