| 单词 | feed |
| 释义 | feed (once / 84 pages) 1vn 2v 3v To feed someone is to give them something to eat. Part of your daily morning routine might be remembering to feed your cat. When you feed a dog, you put food in his bowl, and when you feed your extended family, you might cook them a Thanksgiving feast. Animals are sometimes said "to feed," or to consume or eat, and you can also use the word to mean "food for an animal," or "to supply or promote." The Old English root is fedan, "nourish, sustain, or foster." WORD FAMILYfeed: fed, feeder, feeding, feeds, overfeed+/fed: ill-fed, overfed, underfed, unfed/feeder: feeders, self-feeder/feeding: feedings/overfeed: overfeeding, overfeeds USAGE EXAMPLES"Please be advised, @CustomsBorder outage is nationwide. They are working to restore. Thanks for your patience," Miami International Airport said on its Twitter feed. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) The arms race is fed in part by the slow pace of government regulation for drones. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Robinson said the two players fed off each other. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v provide as food Feed the guests the nuts Hyper cater, ply, provide, supply give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance 2v give food to Feed the starving children in India Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper give famish, starve deprive of food starvedeprive of a necessity and cause suffering dine give dinner to; host for dinner scavengefeed on carrion or refuse foddergive fodder (to domesticated animals) slop, swillfeed pigs regurgitatefeed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food cornfeed (cattle) with corn malnourish, undernourishprovide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment overfeedfeed excessively spoonfeedfeed with a spoon force-feedfeed someone who will not or cannot eat lunchprovide a midday meal for breakfastprovide breakfast for breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nursegive suck to bottlefeedfeed (infants) with a bottle injectfeed intravenously aliment, nourish, nutrifygive nourishment to rangelet eat crop, graze, pasturelet feed in a field or pasture or meadow grassfeed with grass driftdrive slowly and far afield for grazing cater, ply, provide, supply give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance 3v take in food; used of animals only Syn|Hypo|Hyper eat eat take in solid food forage wander and feed ravenfeed greedily sucklesuck milk from the mother's breasts browse, crop, graze, pasture, rangefeed as in a meadow or pasture predate, prey, ravenprey on or hunt for consume, have, ingest, take, take in serve oneself to, or consume regularly 4v serve as food for; be the food for This dish feeds six Hyper cater, ply, provide, supply give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance 5v provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to Syn|Hypo|Hyper fertilise, fertilize nitrify treat (soil) with nitrates dungfertilize or dress with dung topdressscatter manure or fertilizer over (land) enrich make better or improve in quality 6n food for domestic livestock 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper provender blood meal the dried and powdered blood of animals corn gluten feeda feed consisting primarily of corn gluten cattle cakea concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes creep feedfeed given to young animals isolated in a creep foddercoarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop feed graingrain grown for cattle feed ensilage, silagefodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo oil cakemass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops, swillwet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk mashmixture of ground animal feeds cud, rechewed foodfood of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again bird feed, bird food, birdseedfood given to birds; usually mixed seeds pet food, pet-food, petfoodfood prepared for animal pets mastnuts of forest trees used as feed for swine fish mealground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock eatage, forage, grass, pasturage, pasturebulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle oil mealground oil cake alfalfaleguminous plant grown for hay or forage broad bean, horse beana bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder haygrass mowed and cured for use as fodder stoverthe dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested chicken feed, scratchdry mash for poultry dog foodfood prepared for dogs cat foodfood prepared for cats canary seeda mixture of seeds used to feed caged birds food, nutrient any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue 1v move along, of liquids the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi Syn|Hypo|Hyper course, flow, run flush flow freely gush, jetissue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth surge, tiderise or move forward circulatemove through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point eddy, purl, swirl, whirl, whirlpoolflow in a circular current, of liquids run off, wasterun off as waste run downmove downward pourflow in a spurt run out, spillflow, run or fall out and become lost stream, well outflow freely and abundantly dribble, filter, tricklerun or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream drain, run outflow off gradually ooze, seeppass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings gutterflow in small streams flush down, wash downflow freely ventilatecirculate through and freshen spinstream in jets, of liquids gush, spirt, spout, spurtgush forth in a sudden stream or jet regurgitatepour or rush back leach, percolatepermeate or penetrate gradually brim over, overflow, overrun, run over, well overflow or run over (a limit or brim) move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 2v feed into; supply Her success feeds her vanity Hyper furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to 3v introduce continuously 3feed carrots into a food processor Syn|Hyper feed in enclose, inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in introduce 1v support or promote His admiration fed her vanity Hyper advance, boost, encourage, further, promote contribute to the progress or growth of 2v gratify feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view Syn|Hyper feast regale, treat provide with choice or abundant food or drink 3v profit from in an exploitatory manner He feeds on her insecurity Syn|Hyper prey exploit, work use or manipulate to one's advantage |
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