feed
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
phonology
sciences
sports
syntax
Etymology: From Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan (“to feed”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with West Frisian fiede (“to nourish, feed”), Dutch voeden (“to feed”), Danish føde (“to bring forth, feed”), Swedish föda (“to bring forth, feed”), Icelandic fæða (“to feed”), and more distantly with Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb) through Indo-European. More at food, fodder.
Inflected forms:
form: feeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: feeding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: feeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To give (someone or something) food to eat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Feed the dog every evening.
If thine enemy hunger, feed him.
gloss: To eat (usually of animals).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
“The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty’s revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insupportable; that the secretary’s expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the common practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat;[...]
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
If we have time we might go on to Brighton, feed at the 'Ship,' and come back in the cool.
While feeding, the basking shark swims at about two knots per hour, and this enables it to eat and breathe in the same motion.
gloss: To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby.
Feed the fish to the dolphins.
DR SIMEON: I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to.
A young female farm worker was fed alive to a herd of pigs after allegedly being brutally raped and beaten by a colleague with a grudge against her father.
gloss: To give to a machine to be processed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
gloss: To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.
gloss: To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
feeding him with the hope of liberty
gloss: To supply with something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Springs feed ponds with water.
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed
gloss: To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
Once in three years, or every other year, feed your mowing-lands.
gloss: To pass to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Morrison then played a pivotal role in West Brom's equaliser, powering through the middle and feeding Tchoyi, whose low, teasing right-wing cross was poked in by Thomas at the far post
gloss: To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Nasalization feeds raising.
gloss: To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This orthodox analysis […] leads to the conclusion that […] Subject–Auxiliary Inversion (SAI) is fed by the contraction operation.
gloss: Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
gloss: Something supplied continuously.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a satellite feed
gloss: The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the paper feed of a printer
gloss: The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A meal.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
colloquial
countable
examples: 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; […]
"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."
‘Still hungry! Well, we’ll see if Larry can find you a feed of beef when the billy’s boiled.’
gloss: A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: They held a crab feed on the beach.
gloss: online content presented sequentially:
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: online content presented sequentially:
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
often
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
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.
gloss: A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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 […]
Derived words: a closed mouth doesn't get fed
bacon-fed
bite the hand that feeds one
boobfeed
bottle-fed
bottle-feed
breast-fed
breastfeed
cofeed
co-feed
cornfed
counterfeed
don't feed the troll
drip-feed
fed cattle
feedable
feed a cold, starve a fever
feed and water
feed back
feedboard
feedee
feeder
feedfest
feedforward
feedhole
feeding
feed into
feedism
feedline
feedlot
feed off
feed on
feed one's face
feedpoint
feedroom
feedsack
feed the dragon
feed the fire
feed the flames
feed the meter
feed the troll
feed through
feedthrough
feed two birds with one scone
feed up
feedway
feedyard
force-feed
fullfeed
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
handfeed
high-fed
misfeed
overfeed
refeed
self-feed
spoon-fed
spoon-feed
stall-feed
stubble-fed
there's more than one way to feed a cat
underfeed
weed-and-feed
well-fed
winter-feed
atom feed
data feed
Internet feed
live Internet feed
RSS feed
syndication feed
web feed
animal feed
aquafeed
birdfeed
chicken feed
clean feed
crossfeed
dirty feed
dream feed
feedback
feedbag
feedbox
feed bunk
feed dog
feed drive
feedgrain
feed head
feed heater
feedhorn
feed-in
feeding frenzy
feed line
feed mill
feedpipe
feed pump
feedreader
feedstock
feedstore
feedstream
feedstuff
feed-through
feed water
feedwater
feed zone
fish feed
foot feed
form feed
greenfeed
infeed
line feed
live feed
multifeed
newsfeed
nonfeed
off one's feed
outfeed
pigfeed
postfeed
prefeed
prolefeed
reverse line feed
scrum feed
stall feed
stallfeed
stockfeed
subfeed
top feed
whalefeed
wild feed
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: lent
lang: Azerbaijani
word: lenta
lang: Azerbaijani
word: axış
lang: Bashkir
word: таҫма
roman: taśma
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 消息來源 /消息来源
roman: xiāoxi láiyuán
lang: Czech
word: zdroj
lang: Dutch
word: feed
lang: Esperanto
word: abonfluo
lang: Finnish
word: syöte
lang: Georgian
word: არხი
roman: arxi
lang: Georgian
word: ფიდი
roman: pidi
lang: German
word: Feed
lang: Gujarati
word: ફીડ
roman: phīḍ
lang: Hebrew
word: פִיד
roman: fíd
lang: Hindi
word: फ़ीड
roman: fīḍ
lang: Hungarian
word: hírfolyam
lang: Hungarian
word: hírcsatorna
lang: Hungarian
word: feed
lang: Indonesian
word: pasokan
lang: Indonesian
word: umpan
lang: Italian
word: feed
lang: Japanese
word: フィード
roman: fīdo
lang: Korean
word: 피드
roman: pideu
lang: Malay
word: suapan
lang: Norwegian
word: mating
lang: Polish
word: kanał
lang: Polish
word: aktualności
lang: Portuguese
word: feed
lang: Russian
word: новостна́я ле́нта
roman: novostnája lénta
lang: Russian
word: ле́нта новосте́й
roman: lénta novostéj
lang: Russian
word: фид
roman: fid
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sažetak sadržaja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kanal
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: izvor
lang: Spanish
word: feed (fid)
lang: Swahili
word: mlisho
lang: Vietnamese
word: nguồn cấp