feed¹ /fēd/

1. To give, supply, or administer food to
2. To give as food (with to)
3. To nourish
4. To fatten with nourishing food (with up)
5. To provide with necessary material
6. To foster
7. To give as food or as material to be used progressively
8. To furnish (an actor) with cues or opportunities of achieving an effect
9. In various sports, to pass the ball to

1. To take food
2. To nourish oneself by eating (with on or off)
3. To derive strength or sustenance from (with on or off)

1. An amount or allowance of food given eg to babies or to cattle
2. Food for livestock feeding
3. Pasture
4. A plentiful meal (informal)
5. Material supplied progressively for any operation
6. The means, channel, motion or rate of such supply
7. A means of transmitting data over the Internet to several users simultaneously (computing)
8. Rate of progress of a tool
9. An actor who feeds another, a stooge

feedˈable adjective

feedˈer noun

1. A person who consumes food (esp in a specified way, eg a big feeder) or provides or administers it to another
2. An actor who feeds another
3. Something which supplies (water, electricity, ore, paper, etc)
4. Any channel of supply to a main system
5. A transport route linking outlying areas to the trunk line
6. A tributary
7. An overhead or underground cable, of large current-carrying capacity, used to transmit electric power between generating stations, substations and feeding points
8. A container for food for small animals, birds, etc
9. A feeding bottle
10. A bib
11. A primary school from which a secondary school receives regular intakes of pupils
12. A person who fattens cattle
13. A shepherd (obsolete)
14. A dependant, a servant (archaic)

Secondary, subsidiary, tributary

feedˈing noun

1. The act of eating or supplying with food
2. That which is eaten
3. Pasture
4. The placing of the sheets of paper in position for a printing or ruling machine

feedˈback noun

1. Return of part of the output of a system to the input as a means towards improved quality or self-correction of error (negative feedback) or, when in phase with the input signal, resulting in oscillation and instability (positive feedback)
2. Used also in speaking of biological, etc self-adjusting systems
3. Response or reaction providing useful information or guidelines for further action or development
4. (in a public address system, etc) the unintentional returning of some of the sound output back to the microphone, producing a whistle or howl

feedˈ-head noun

A cistern that supplies water to a boiler

feedˈ-heater noun

An apparatus for heating water for a boiler

feeding bottle noun

A bottle for supplying liquid food to an infant

feeding frenzy noun

1. A competitive and violent attack on the same prey by a number of predators
2. A period of violently excited competitive activity (informal)

feeding point noun (elec)

The junction point between a feeder and distribution system

feedˈ-in tariff noun

(in Britain) a payment made to an individual household for generating renewable energy

feedˈ-line noun

1. A line fed to an actor
2. A cue

feedˈlot noun

A unit in which cattle are kept indoors and made to put on weight rapidly by means of processed and blended feed supplied to them automatically

feedˈ-pipe noun

A pipe for supplying liquid, such as water to a boiler or cistern

feedˈ-pump noun

A force pump for supplying a boiler with water

feedˈstock noun

Raw material used in an industrial process

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