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Feed (verb)
To give (someone or something) food to eat.
“Feed the dog every evening.”
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Feed (verb)
To eat usually of animals.
“Spiders feed on gnats and flies.”
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Feed (verb)
To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
“Feed the fish to the dolphins.”
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Feed (verb)
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.”
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Feed (verb)
To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
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Feed (verb)
To supply with something.
“Springs feed ponds with water.”
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Feed (verb)
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
“If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.”
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Feed (verb)
To pass to.
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Feed (verb)
To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
“Nasalization feeds raising.”
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Feed (verb)
To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
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Feed (noun)
Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
“They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.”
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Feed (noun)
Something supplied continuously.
“a satellite feed”
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Feed (noun)
The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
“the paper feed of a printer”
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Feed (noun)
A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
“They held a crab feed on the beach.”
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Feed (noun)
Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
“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.”
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Fed (noun)
a federal government officer or official, especially FBI and DEA agents.
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Fed (noun)
a police officer.