Feed vs. Fed

By Jaxson

  • Feed (verb)

    To give (someone or something) food to eat.

    “Feed the dog every evening.”

  • Feed (verb)

    To eat usually of animals.

    “Spiders feed on gnats and flies.”

  • Feed (verb)

    To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.

    “Feed the fish to the dolphins.”

  • 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.”

  • Feed (verb)

    To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).

  • Feed (verb)

    To supply with something.

    “Springs feed ponds with water.”

  • 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.”

  • Feed (verb)

    To pass to.

  • Feed (verb)

    To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.

    “Nasalization feeds raising.”

  • Feed (verb)

    To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.

  • Feed (noun)

    Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.

    “They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.”

  • Feed (noun)

    Something supplied continuously.

    “a satellite feed”

  • Feed (noun)

    The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.

    “the paper feed of a printer”

  • Feed (noun)

    A gathering to eat, especially in quantity

    “They held a crab feed on the beach.”

  • 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.”

  • Fed (noun)

    a federal government officer or official, especially FBI and DEA agents.

  • Fed (noun)

    a police officer.

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