feed
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- SAMPA: /'fid/
- IPA: /'fid/
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- Rhymes: -iːd
[edit] Etymology
Old English fēdan, from Germanic. Cognate with Danish føde, Dutch voeden, Swedish föda.
[edit] Verb
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to feed (third-person singular simple present feeds, present participle feeding, simple past and past participle fed)
- (transitive) to give food to eat, nurture
- Feed the dog every evening.
- (intransitive) to eat (usually of animals)
- Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
- We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.
[edit] Translations
to give food to eat
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to eat
to give to a machine for processing
[edit] Noun
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feed (countable and uncountable; plural feeds)
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
- They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- Something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed.
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
- They held a crab feed on the beach.
- (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that you can subscribe to with a feed reader.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
food given to (especially herbivorous) animals
something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed
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a gathering to eat, especially in quantity
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[edit] Related terms
- feed dog
- feeding frenzy
- feedstock
- give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
- misfeed
[edit] Manx
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[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /fiːdʒ/
[edit] Numeral
feed
- (cardinal) twenty