Definitions for feed
fidfeed

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. feed, provenderverb

   food for domestic livestock

2. feedverb

   provide as food

   "Feed the guests the nuts"

3. feed, giveverb

   give food to

   "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

4. feedverb

   feed into; supply

   "Her success feeds her vanity"

5. feed, feed inverb

   introduce continuously

   "feed carrots into a food processor"

6. feedverb

   support or promote

   "His admiration fed her vanity"

7. feed, eatverb

   take in food; used of animals only

   "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"

8. feedverb

   serve as food for; be the food for

   "This dish feeds six"

9. run, flow, feed, courseverb

   move along, of liquids

   "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

10. prey, feedverb

    profit from in an exploitatory manner

    "He feeds on her insecurity"

11. feed, feastverb

    gratify

    "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"

12. fertilize, fertilise, feedverb

    provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

    "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Feednoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Food; that which is eaten.

   A fearful deer then looks most about when he comes to the best feed, with a shruging kind of tremor through all her principal parts. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   An old worked ox fats as well as a young one: their feed is much cheaper, because they eat no oats. John Mortimer, Husb.

   2. Pasture.

   Besides his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed
   Are now on sale. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

2. To FEEDverb

   Etymology: fodan, Gothick; fedan, foedan, Saxon.

   1. To supply with food.

   Her heart and bowels through her back he drew,
   And fed the hounds that help’d him to pursue. Dryden.

   Herman Boerhaave fed a sparrow with bread four days, in which time it eat more than its own weight. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.

   2. To supply; to furnish.

   A constant smoke arises from the warm springs that feed the many baths with which this island is stocked. Addison.

   The breadth of the bottom of the hopper must be half the length of a barleycorn, and near as long as the rollers, that it may not feed them too fast. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   3. To graze; to consume by cattle.

   Once in three years feed your mowing lands, if you cannot get manure constantly to keep them in heart. John Mortimer.

   The frost will spoil the grass; for which reason take care to feed it close before Winter. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   4. To nourish; to cherish.

   How oft from pomp and state did I remove,
   To feed despair, and cherish hopeless love? Matthew Prior.

   5. To keep in hope or expectation.

   Barbarossa learned the strength of the emperor, craftily feeding him with the hope of liberty. Richard Knolles, Hist. of the Turks.

   6. To delight; to entertain; to keep from satiety.

   The alteration of scenes, so it be without noise, feeds and relieves the eye, before it be full of the same object. Francis Bacon.

3. To Feedverb

   1. To take food. Chiefly applied to animals food.

   To feed were best at home;
   From thence the sawce to meat is ceremony;
   Meeting were bare without it. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   2. To prey; to live by eating.

   I am not covetous of gold;
   Nor care I, who doth feed upon my cost. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

   You cry against the noble senate, who,
   Under the gods, keep you in awe, which else
   Would feed on one another. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   Galen speaketh of the curing of the scirrhus of the liver by milk of a cow, that feedeth upon certain herbs. Francis Bacon.

   Some birds feed upon the berries of this vegetable. Brown.

   He feeds on fruits, which, of their own accord,
   The willing grounds and laden trees afford. John Dryden, Virg.

   The Brachmans were all of the same race, lived in fields and woods, and fed only upon rice, milk, or herbs. William Temple.

   All feed on one vain patron, and enjoy
   Th’ extensive blessing of his luxury. Alexander Pope, Essay on Man.

   3. To pasture; to place cattle to feed.

   If a man shall cause a field to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field, he shall make restitution. Ex. xxii. 5.

   4. To grow fat or plump.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. feed

   Feed generally refers to the food given to domestic animals and livestock, usually in a controlled manner, in the course of animal husbandry. It can also refer to the act of providing food to these animals. Additionally, in digital context, feed can refer to a stream of data or updates, like a news feed on a social media platform.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Feed

   of Fee

2. Feedverb

   to give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of

3. Feedverb

   to satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire

4. Feedverb

   to fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal

5. Feedverb

   to nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard

6. Feedverb

   to graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep

7. Feedverb

   to give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler

8. Feedverb

   to supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press

9. Feedverb

   to produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work)

10. Feedverb

    to take food; to eat

11. Feedverb

    to subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon

12. Feedverb

    to be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food

13. Feedverb

    to place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze

14. Feednoun

    that which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep

15. Feednoun

    a grazing or pasture ground

16. Feednoun

    an allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats

17. Feednoun

    a meal, or the act of eating

18. Feednoun

    the water supplied to steam boilers

19. Feednoun

    the motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work

20. Feednoun

    the supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones

21. Feednoun

    the mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion

22. Etymology: [AS. fdan, fr. fda food; akin to OS. fdian, OFries. fda, fda, D. voeden, OHG. fuottan, Icel. fa, Sw. fda, Dan. fde. 75. See Food.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Feed

   Feed is a dystopian novel of the cyberpunk genre by M. T. Anderson, that focuses on issues such as corporate power, consumerism, information technology, and data mining in society, occasionally from a sardonic perspective. The novel depicts humanity's descent into a society that revolves entirely around advertising and corporate gain from the perspective of an American teenager and his friends.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Feed

   fēd, v.t. to give food to: to nourish: to furnish with necessary material: to foster.—v.i. to take food: to nourish one's self by eating:—pr.p. feed′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. fed.—n. an allowance of provender, esp. to cattle: the motion forward of anything being fed to a machine: (Milt.) a meal: (Shak.) pasture land.—ns. Feed′er, he who feeds, or that which supplies: an eater: one who abets another: one who fattens cattle: (obs.) a parasite; Feed′-head, the cistern that supplies water to the boiler of a steam-engine; Feed′-heat′er, an apparatus for heating the water supplied to a steam-boiler; Feed′ing, act of eating: that which is eaten: pasture: the placing of the sheets of paper in position for a printing or ruling machine; Feed′ing-bott′le, a bottle for supplying liquid food to an infant; Feed′-pipe, a pipe for supplying a boiler or cistern with water; Feed′-pump, a force-pump for supplying a steam-engine boiler with water. [A.S. fédan, to feed.]

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1. FEED

   What does FEED stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the FEED acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Consume
   • Encourage
   • Enrich
   • Exploit
   • Farming
   • Move
   • Provide
   • Regale
   • Supply

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'feed' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4043

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'feed' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2555

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'feed' in Verbs Frequency: #310

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How to pronounce feed?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say feed in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of feed in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of feed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of feed in a Sentence

1. Rachel Davies:

   She has been sick after every feed since starting this new formula.

2. Joergen Ree Wiig:

   The beluga whale has been spotted again in the area. We are very concerned that it is not able to feed itself.

3. Daniel Sui:

   Customers like U.S. beef because it tastes juicy and tender, but Wolfgang's only sells around seven to eight pieces of U.S. imported beef steak each day, the limited supply is because the Chinese government bans feed additives and only 5 percent of U.S. beef is qualified for export.

4. Simon Howie Butchers:

   You can give your kids a meal that is not full of things you do n’t want to feed them – for a few pounds you can feed three strapping lads, from a kitchen perspective, it is very simple because when it leaves our factory it is already cooked. So when you or a restaurant owner gets it into the kitchen all you have to do is heat it up to be piping hot. It could n’t be more basic : a student with no cooking skills or a Michelin-starred chef do exactly the same thing to put it out on the plate.

5. Karen Saprapani:

   It can be expensive to feed a growing big cat because they require lots of raw meat, it's possible whomever owned it was overwhelmed by the cost and released it on purpose figuring local authorities would be able to take care of it, or they actually lost it and are afraid to come forward because of all the concern.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=feed
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=feed
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feed
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=feed
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=feed
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=feed