feed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: feeds
Etymology: From Middle English fede, fed, from the verb (see above). Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse fœða (“nourishment, food”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), whence also Old English fēdan (“to feed”).
Senses: examples: text: They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
coordinate_terms: fodder#Noun
glosses: Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
examples: text: a satellite feed
glosses: Something supplied continuously.
examples: text: the paper feed of a printer
coordinate_terms: feeder
feedbin
hopper#Noun
glosses: The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
coordinate_terms: speed#Noun
speeds and feeds
glosses: The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
examples: text: 184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; […]
text: "There won't be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so; there won't be any Royal Academy of Arts, and no nice little feeds at restaurants."
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 257:
glosses: A meal.
examples: text: They held a crab feed on the beach.
synonyms: feast
glosses: A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
examples: text: 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.
glosses: online content presented sequentially:
antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
qualifier: syndication or aggregation
examples: text: Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and you will see the latest news at the top. The further back you scroll, the older the material gets.
ref: 2016 March 15, Mike Isaac, “Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: I use Native, that’s what other Native people on Facebook use. I have 660 friends. Tons of Native friends in my feed. Most of my friends, though, are people I don’t know, who’d happily friended me upon request.
ref: 2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Despite spending years studying these toxic dynamics and the better part of a month watching them up close in strangers’ feeds, I was still, like so many, surprised to see it all reflected at the ballot box. We shouldn’t have been surprised; our divisions have been in front of our faces and inside our feeds this whole time.
ref: 2020 November 24, Charlie Warzel, “What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: online content presented sequentially:
content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
qualifier: social media
raw_tags: after a possessive determiner
examples: text: Don Ward is often described as a former comic, having some experience in this area as a young man, acting as a feed for the comic actor David Lodge at Parkins Holiday Camp in Jersey […]
ref: 2020, Oliver Double, Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up, page 38:
glosses: A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
Derived terms: sense: Internet: syndication or aggregation
word: atom feed
sense: Internet: syndication or aggregation
word: data feed
sense: Internet: syndication or aggregation
word: Internet feed
sense: Internet: syndication or aggregation
word: live Internet feed
sense: Internet: syndication or aggregation
word: RSS feed
sense: Internet: syndication or aggregation
word: syndication feed
sense: Internet: syndication or aggregation
word: web feed
sense: Terms derived from the noun feed
word: animal feed
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word: aquafeed
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word: birdfeed
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word: chicken feed
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word: clean feed
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word: crossfeed
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word: dirty feed
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word: dream feed
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word: drip-feed
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word: feedback
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word: feedbag
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word: feedbox
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word: feed bunk
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word: feed dog
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word: feed drive
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word: feedforward
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word: feedgrain
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word: feed head
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word: feed heater
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word: feedhorn
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word: feed-in
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word: feeding frenzy
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word: feed line
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word: feed mill
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word: feedpipe
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word: feed pump
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word: feedreader
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word: feedstock
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word: feedstore
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word: feedstream
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word: feedstuff
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word: feed-through
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word: feed water
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word: feedwater
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word: feed zone
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word: fish feed
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word: foot feed
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word: form feed
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word: greenfeed
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word: infeed
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word: line feed
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word: live feed
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word: multifeed
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word: newsfeed
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word: nonfeed
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word: off one's feed
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word: outfeed
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word: pigfeed
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word: postfeed
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word: prefeed
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word: prolefeed
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word: refeed
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word: reverse line feed
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word: scrum feed
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word: stall feed
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word: stallfeed
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word: stockfeed
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word: subfeed
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word: top feed
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word: web feed
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word: whalefeed
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word: wild feed