| 单词 | feed |
| 释义 | feed (fiːd ) Word forms: feeds , feeding , fed 1. verb B1+ If you feed a person or animal, you give them food to eat and sometimes actually put it in their mouths. We brought along pieces of old bread and fed the birds. [VERB noun] She fed him a cookie. [VERB noun noun] In that part of the world you can feed cattle on almost any green vegetable or fruit. [V n + on/with] He spooned the ice cream into a cup and fed it to her. [VERB noun + to] Feed is also a noun. [mainly British] She's had a good feed. feeding uncountable noun The feeding of dairy cows has undergone a revolution. 2. verb B1+ To feed a family or a community means to supply food for them. Feeding a hungry family can be expensive. [VERB noun] We have the technology to feed the population of the planet. [VERB noun] Synonyms: cater for, provide for, nourish, provide with food 3. verb When an animal feeds, it eats or drinks something. After a few days the caterpillars stopped feeding. [VERB] Slugs feed on decaying plant and animal material. [V + on/off] 4. verb When a baby feeds, or when you feed it, it drinks breast milk or milk from a bottle. When a baby is thirsty, it feeds more often. [VERB] I knew absolutely nothing about handling or feeding a baby. [VERB noun] Synonyms: eat, drink milk, take nourishment 5. variable noun [usually noun NOUN] Animal feed is food given to animals, especially farm animals. The grain just rotted and all they could use it for was animal feed. ...poultry feed. 6. verb To feed something to a place, means to supply it to that place in a steady flow. ...blood vessels that feed blood to the brain. [VERB noun preposition] ...gas fed through pipelines. [VERB noun preposition] Synonyms: supply, take, send, carry 7. verb If you feed something into a container or piece of equipment, you put it into it. He took the compact disc from her, then fed it into the player. [VERB noun preposition] She was feeding documents into a paper shredder. [VERB noun preposition] 8. verb If someone feeds you false or secret information, they deliberately tell it to you. He was surrounded by people who fed him ghastly lies. [VERB noun noun] At least one British officer was feeding him with classified information. [VERB noun + with] 9. verb If you feed someone's dislike or desire for something, you make it stronger. The divorce was painfully public, feeding her dislike of the press. [VERB noun] 10. verb If you feed a plant, you add substances to it to make it grow well. Feed plants to encourage steady growth. [VERB noun] 11. verb If one thing feeds on another, it becomes stronger as a result of the other thing's existence. The drinking and the guilt fed on each other. [VERB + on] 12. verb To feed information into a computer means to gradually put it into it. An automatic weather station feeds information on wind direction to the computer. [V n + into/to] 13. countable noun A feed is a system that tells a user when an item is available to read, for example on Twitter. I saw the news on my Twitter feed. 14. to bite the hand that feeds you phrase If someone bites the hand that feeds them, they behave badly or in an ungrateful way towards someone who they depend on. She is cynical about the film industry, but ultimately she has no intention of biting the hand that feeds her. 15. mouths to feed phrase If you have a number of mouths to feed, you have the responsibility of earning enough money to feed and look after that number of people. With five mouths to feed, he found life very hard. Phrasal verbs: feed up phrasal verb If you feed someone up, you encourage them to eat extra food so that they put on weight. [British] Come inside and be fed up. Idioms: chicken feed a very small amount of money The £70,000-a-year that we receive from our sponsors is chicken feed compared to the £20m budgets available to some of our rivals. something unimportant, especially in comparison to another thing Ordinarily, this late in the campaign, presidential candidates don't play around with chicken feed like this. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: feed a plant In a pot they can be planted with only 7-8cm between the bulbs because the leaves will intermingle happily and still feed the plant. Times,Sunday Times Feed the plant after pruning with a fertiliser at about 100g per sq metre. The Sun This will feed the plant over time and help to retain moisture in the soil. Times, Sunday Times Often they are of the slow-release variety, which will steadily feed the plant over a whole season, and so they are normally put on in spring or used when planting. Times, Sunday Times After pruning, feed the plant with a general fertiliser and water it in. The Sun They feed mainly on seeds in the tops of alders and birches, but odd single birds often appear in unexpected bushy places. Times, Sunday Times Otherwise, they feed mainly on the ground, shuffling about on their pink feet, and they quickly slip back under a hedge if they are disturbed. Times, Sunday Times They feed mainly on fruit, seeds, insects, leaves, flowers and mushrooms. Times, Sunday Times Both these kinds of hoverfly feed mainly on pollen and have short tongues. Times, Sunday Times The ground has been frozen for long periods and, since they feed mainly on ants, they cannot get much out of a frozen anthill. Times, Sunday Times The lorries have nozzles that supply water and possibly milk substitute but vets say young calves cannot feed properly from such systems. Times,Sunday Times Even in the most proven arm that reliably extracts and ejects, the magazine has to be 100-percent reliable for it to consistently feed properly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They produce a quarter of all our vitamins if fed properly. The Sun Other patients had attacked each other, and many were not fed properly. The Sun Would it have made a difference if he had been fed properly and given treatment on time? The Sun They feed regularly with the siskins in the birches and alders. Times, Sunday Times They like plenty of water and a rich soil, so incorporate a lot of organic matter before planting and feed regularly. Times, Sunday Times Feed regularly throughout the growing season with a liquid feed. Times, Sunday Times Agapanthus like to be pot-bound but not starved, so give a liquid feed regularly. Times, Sunday Times Once the plants start budding up, feed regularly with tomato feed or seaweed. Times,Sunday Times The crops are used widely across the world and are now an established part of the global food and animal feed supply. Times, Sunday Times There was no evidence that the cattle feed supply was contaminated. canada.com Some data feeds are free, but the prices these feeds supply are delayed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The property has its own airstrip and three gorges that are spring fed supplying fresh water all year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These efforts are aimed to counter excessive depletion of the intended domestic winter feed supplies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This was the first truly critical biography, showing how personal experience and passion for life and art fed the flames of the poet's creative imagination. Times, Sunday Times It brought with it a fresh breeze that fed the flames, and the room became one giant, roaring fireball. Times, Sunday Times A few hours later, the underground ventilation system, which was feeding the flames with oxygen, was shut down. Times, Sunday Times Not that you can keep these messages; everything has to feed the flames. Times, Sunday Times Reports like this just feed the flames. The Sun It's not really our job to feed the frenzy, but if we don't say where her clothes come from, plenty of people will write in to ask. Times, Sunday Times Leading auction houses are also feeding the frenzy. Times, Sunday Times It definitely fed the frenzy. Times, Sunday Times More than $80 billion of new investment fed the frenzy. Times, Sunday Times Case's merger also fed the frenzy of so-called convergence deals internationally, at prices that now look excessive. Globe and Mail They should take you into another world and feed your imagination. Times, Sunday Times It's an omission that allows a novelist such as myself to feed his imagination. Times, Sunday Times If you know how to laugh-and why you laugh-you can feed your imagination on humor. Christianity Today There's a wealth of things to feed the imagination. The Sun The words and the voices feed the imagination, which creates the rest of the picture in the mind. Times, Sunday Times Such conversations feed my soul and add richness to preaching. Christianity Today Food doesn't just feed my body; it feeds my soul. Times, Sunday Times Physical exercise (outdoors if possible), creative outlets like journaling, cooking or drawing and mindful habits like meditating or quiet reading can help feed the soul. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Dreams feed your soul and express who you are, providing an interest so all-consuming that time disappears. Times, Sunday Times Forget the ducks, this will feed your soul. Times, Sunday Times Like many throat cancer patients, I was fitted with a feeding tube in my stomach. The Sun (2013) In September last year he stopped eating and had a nasogastric feeding tube fitted. The Sun (2015) She was given a nasal feeding tube. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Cordectomy patients never had a temporary tracheotomy or were connected to a feeding tube. 2005, 'Quality of life, functional outcome, and voice handicap index in partial laryngectomy patients for early glottic cancer', BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders Hundreds of insects feed off it. Times, Sunday Times The parasitic insects feed on human blood and often leave huge welts and sores, although most people do not feel them biting as the bugs' saliva contains an anaesthetic. The Sun Flies and other insects feed upon the slime which contains the spores, assisting in their dispersal. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The adult insects feed mainly on nectar that they gather from flowers, but they also feed on pollen with its higher protein content. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Scale insects feed on a wide variety of plants, though particular species commonly are specific to particular host plants or plant groups. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A chatroom on the webpage beside each live feed allows 'occupiers' to communicate with each other and their viewers. Times, Sunday Times They were in good spirits -even when a technical fault cut the live feed during some of the vows. The Sun Operators watch the strikes on a live feed to monitor their hit rates. The Sun Fans have been furious about the lack of live feed. The Sun When the live feed returned, housemates were seen munching on toast. The Sun The algorithms have been improved continually over the past decade to make the news feed more relevant to the person looking at it. Times, Sunday Times If you sign on and 'like' the companies that interest you, you will see them posting deals and offers in their news feed. The Sun However, engagement statistics showed that the algorithm 'worked', the numbers added up, and so news feed stayed. Times, Sunday Times Instead, they would be mixed up with the 'news feed', which provides updates on the activities of each user's friends. Times, Sunday Times Your passion profile links to a public invitation, on a page or news feed. The Sun Not because they kept losing the satellite feed, or anything comic like that. Times, Sunday Times The satellite feed typically had roughly 34 minutes of commercials per hour. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Guests were also often interviewed one on one, or by satellite feed, where questions are more geared toward that particular guest's life and views. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They would actually sit in the booth and call something live if they needed to for the satellite feed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Using satellite feeds, they can say precisely when the rain will come, how much there will be and where on the track it will land. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 喂养, 饲料 Japanese: 食物を与える, 飼料 |
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