feed

Fetched 2026-10-27 (live).

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Verb

1. To give (someone or something) food to eat.
   • Feed the dog every evening.
2. To eat .
   • Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
3. To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
   • Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby.
   • Feed the fish to the dolphins.
4. To give to a machine to be processed.
   • Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
5. To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
   • We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.
6. To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
7. To supply with something.
   • Springs feed ponds with water.
8. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
   • If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
9. To pass to.
10. To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
    • Nasalization feeds raising.
11. To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).

Noun

1. Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
   • They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
2. Something supplied continuously.
   • a satellite feed
3. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
   • the paper feed of a printer
4. The part of a fountain pen that supplies ink to the nib.
5. The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
6. A meal.
7. A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
   • They held a crab feed on the beach.
8. online content presented sequentially: : antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
   • 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.
9. : antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
   • 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.
10. content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
11. A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.

Verb

1. simple past and past participle of fee

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