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feed
I. \ˈfēd\ verb
(fed \ˈfed\ ; fed ; feeding ; feeds)
Etymology: Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan; akin to Old High German fuoten to feed, Old Norse fœtha, Gothic fodjan; denominative from the root of English food
transitive verb
1.
a. : to give food to : supply with nourishment : satisfy the hunger of
< feed several guests >
< feed the chickens >
also : suckle
< feed a baby at the breast >
b. : to convey food to the mouth of
< a patient so weak he had to be fed >
< feeding a small child in a high chair >
c. : to supply emotional, intellectual, or spiritual sustenance to
< looking for what would feed the soul >
< a capacity for love that found nothing to feed it >
d. : to convey to or into the mind of as if feeding a child
< the governed can be unknowingly fed with untruths — Harrison Brown >
< thought the man was feeding him all kinds of nonsense >
2.
a. : to furnish especially with something that is essential or that improves or enhances
< feeding plants with fertilizer >
< the intelligence fed by reading >
< most adults do stop feeding their minds — R.H.Wittcoff >
b. : to supply or keep supplied especially with something consumed
< lakes and rivers which feed the Congo — Tom Marvel >
< feeding a furnace with coal >
< checks the items that are fed to him by the usual run of press agents — Saturday Review >
c. : to pass or throw a ball or puck to (a teammate) especially for a shot at the goal
< kept feeding the tall center >
d. : to supply (a fellow actor) with the cue lines and situations that give greater effectiveness or significance to a role; also : to supply (as cue lines) to an actor
e. : to provide a supply of (electrical energy)
< power is usually fed to the antenna — Radio Amateur's Handbook >
also : to supply electrical energy to
f.
(1) : to supply especially to an electronic circuit : send especially through an electronic circuit — used of a signal (as in radar, radio, or telegraphy)
(2) : to send (a radio or television program) by wire to a transmitting station for broadcast
3.
a. : to produce food for
< the pasture fed the cows poorly >
b. : to provide food for
< enough wheat to feed the troops for a week >
c. : to provide material for : supply (as a talent) with substance or occasion for exercise
< immense learning … drawn upon to feed a fine sense of humor — R.M.Lovett >
4.
a. : satisfy, gratify
< fed his desire for revenge >
< I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him — Shakespeare >
b. : to give support or encouragement to
< feeding false hopes >
c. : aggravate, augment
< feed his feelings of indignation >
< fed his resentment by mulling over the circumstances that aroused it >
< vanity fed by flattery >
< sensational … papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical headlines — Time >
< the public acclaim fed the dictator's ego >
5.
a. : to supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine
< to feed paper to a printing press >
b. : to produce progressive operation upon or with (as in woodworking and metalworking machines) so that the work moves to the cutting tool or the tool to the work
6.
a. : to give as food
< feed grain to chickens >
b. : to furnish for use or consumption
< feeding coal to a furnace >
often in appropriate or convenient amounts
< hurried to another hospital to borrow a machine which he hoped would feed the oxygen mechanically — Grace Reiten >
— often used with out
< the flatbed press fed out papers each afternoon about as fast as I could deal cards — C.C.Wertenbaker >
7.
a. : to put (cattle) to graze
b. : to cause (land or crops) to be grazed
intransitive verb
1.
a.
(1) : to consume food : eat — often used with a derogatory implication when applied to a person
< cattle feeding in a barn >
< we determined to feed only once a day at a restaurant — M.C.A.Henniker >
(2) : to take a meal especially in restaurants
< you can feed better here than in most other cities >
b. : to satisfy the appetite : feed oneself : prey — used with on or upon or off
< a vulture feeding on carrion >
< an animal feeding off smaller animals >
c. : to become nourished, strengthened, satisfied, sustained, or augmented as if by food
< convictions feed … on many things, including items of knowledge and considerations of logic — Lucius Garvin >
d. : to consume or utilize feed — used of an engine or other mechanical device
< a gas turbine feeding on the fuel it pumps >
2. : to supply a fellow actor with the cue lines and situations that give greater effectiveness or significance to his role
3.
a. : to move in or as if in supplying something with what it uses or consumes
< the river feeds into the Atlantic ocean >
b. : to move into a machine or opening in order to be used or processed
< bullets feed into a machine gun >
< oil feeds into an engine >
< wire feeds into a conduit >
4. : to load a cartridge into the chamber of a firearm especially by the operation of the action in magazine or clip-fed arms
Synonyms:
nourish, pasture, graze: feed is a general term applicable to persons, animals, and plants and anything else given material to consume or enjoy for purposes of sustaining or continuing operation
< to feed the refugees >
< to feed the chickens >
< to feed a furnace >
< Hugh's growing vanity was fed by the thought that Clara was interested in him — Sherwood Anderson >
< the dissatisfactions that feed the cause of the rebels >
nourish is applicable to supplying what furnishes elements essential to growth, well-being, and building up
< the humid prairie heat, so nourishing to wheat and corn, so exhausting to human beings — Willa Cather >
< our press has helped to nourish this legend by stretching and distorting certain of the more horrendous and eccentric features — S.L.A.Marshall >
< all writers are nourished by the sense of having an audience — Malcolm Crowley >
pasture suggests leading cows or sheep to grassy areas or permitting them to go to such areas
< pasturing cows in the meadow >
graze is often synonymous with pasture
< sheep grazing in a field >
but may suggest free ranging over a less circumscribed area
< grazing cattle on the range >
II. noun
(-s)
1.
a. obsolete : the act of eating
b. : meal; especially : a sumptuous meal
< a bath and a shave and clean clothes and a good feed — I.L.Idriess >
2.
a. obsolete : the right of pasture on a piece of land
b. obsolete : grazing
c. obsolete : pasture land
d. dialect England : crops
3.
a. : food especially for livestock : fodder
< he needed food for his family and feed for his livestock — A.F.Gustafson >
b. : a food of this kind : a mixture or preparation used for feeding livestock
c. : the amount given at each feeding
4. : the fermenting wort drawn off from yeast troughs in brewing and added to the fermenting unions to keep them full and so enable the yeast to work out
5.
a. : the motion or process of carrying forward the material 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 lathe by moving the cutting tool along or in the work)
b.
(1) : the degree of feeding material to a machine
< a fine or coarse feed >
(2) : the advance of a cutting tool at each revolution of the tool or of the work
< a feed of 1/8 inch >
specifically : the thickness of the chip cut per tooth of a milling cutter
c. : material supplied to a machine or apparatus (as lubricant to an engine, water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or petroleum to a distilling column)
d. : a mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced : feed motion
6. : the system or surfaces of the action of a firearm that serve to move a cartridge from its magazine or clip to the chamber or act as a surface for such motion
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- off one's feed
III.
past of fee
IV. noun
1. : the process of feeding a television program (as to a local station) ; also : the signal being fed
2. : the act or instance of passing a ball or puck to a teammate
< scored on a feed from the right wing > |