Dictionary Definition
feed n : food for domestic livestock [syn:
provender]
Verb
1 provide as food; "Feed the guests the
nuts"
2 give food to; "Feed the starving children in
India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" [syn: give] [ant: starve]
3 feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her
vanity"
4 introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a
food processor" [syn: feed in]
5 support or promote; "His admiration fed her
vanity"
6 take in food; used of animals only; "This dog
doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" [syn:
eat]
7 serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish
feeds six"
8 move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the
cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: run, flow, course]
9 profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He
feeds on her insecurity" [syn: prey]
10 gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
[syn: feast]
11 provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to;
"We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" [syn:
fertilize, fertilise] [also: fed]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /'fid/
- /'fid/
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- Rhymes: -iːd
Verb
Translations
to give food to eat
- Albanian: ushqen
- Basque: elikatu
- Breton: beva, maga
- Catalan: alimentar
- Chinese: 餵
- Croatian: hraniti
- Czech: krmit
- Danish: fodre
- Dutch: voeden, voeren
- Esperanto: manĝigi
- Finnish: syöttää, ruokkia
- French: nourrir, alimenter
- German: füttern, nähren
- Hungarian: etet, táplál
- Indonesian: memberi makan
- Italian: nutrire, alimentare
- Japanese: 食べさせる (たべさせる, tabesaseru)
- Lao: (kyya)
- Norwegian: mate
- Polish: karmić
- Portuguese: alimentar
- Russian: кормить
- Spanish: alimentar
- Swedish: mata, nära, föda
to eat
Noun
- Food given to
(especially herbivorous) animals.
- They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- Something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed.
- A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
- They held a crab feed on the beach.
- Encapsulated online content that you can subscribe to with a feed reader. Used often for reading blog and news updates.
Translations
food given to (especially herbivorous) animals
- German: Futter
something supplied continuously; as, a satellite
feed
- German: Einspeisung
a gathering to eat, especially in quantity
- German: Futtern, Fütterung
encapsulated online content that you can
subscribe to with a feed reader
- ttbc Danish: foder (1); forsyning (2); gilde (3)
- ttbc Dutch: voer n (1), voeder n (1), aanvoer m (2), festijn n (3)
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Feed may refer to:
Inserting one thing into another:
Telecommunications
- (Information from Federal Standard 1037C and MIL-STD-188)
- To supply a signal to the input of a system, subsystem, equipment, or electronic component, such as a transmission line or antenna
- A coupling device between an antenna and its transmission line that may consist of a distribution network or a primary radiator
- A transmission facility between (a) the point of origin of a signal, such as is generated in a radio or television studio, and (b) the head-end of a distribution facility, such as an individual station in a broadcasting network
- Data feed
- Feed horn
- Horn (telecommunications)
Computing
- Line feed
- Web
feed, the RSS or Atom
feeds used by news
aggregators
- feed: URI scheme, a mechanism to access web feeds
Popular culture
- Feed, a postcyberpunk, dystopian novel written by M. T. Anderson in 2002
- Feed, an e-zine, also known as feedmag.com
- The Feed, a segment on the American TV series Attack of the Show!
- Feed, a 2005 film directed by Brett Leonard
Other
- In metalworking, feed describes the rate at which a tool advances into the workpiece. The term speeds and feeds combines two important conditions that affect cutting tool life and metal removal rates.
FEED may refer to:
- FEED (Foundation for European Economic Development)
- FEED (Front End Engineering Design)
See also
- Feederism is a sexual fetish involving the submissive partner in a relationship being fed to the stage of obesity by the dominant one for sexual gratification.
feed in German: Feed
feed in French: Feed
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abet, aid
and abet, allay, appease, ask for, assuage, bank, banquet, barley, bed, bed down, bird seed, board, bran, bread, break, break bread, breed, bridle, brush, bunker, burn, care for, cat food, cater, cherish, chicken feed, chop, chow, coal, coddle, conflagrate, corn, cosset, count calories, countenance, cradle, cultivate, culture, curry, currycomb, deliver, depend on, detonate, devour, diet, dine, dish out, dispense, dog food, drench, dry-nurse, eat, eatage, eats, edibles, encourage, enkindle, ensilage, entertainment, explode, fall to, fan the flame,
fare, farm, fatten, feast, feed the fire, fill up,
find, fire, fodder, fondle, food, forage, foster, fuel, fuel up, fulminate, furnish, gas, gas up, gentle, give encouragement,
grain, grass, gratify, graze, groom, grow, grub, hand, hand over, handle, harness, hatch, hay, hitch, hunger, ignite, inflame, invite, keep, keep in countenance, kindle, lavish care on, light, light up, litter, maintain, manage, mash, meal, meat, mess, milk, mother, nourish, nurse, nurture, oats, oil, pamper, partake, partake of, pasturage, pasture, pet food, pitch in,
provender, provide, provide for, provision, provisions, purvey, quench, raise, ranch, rear, refection, refreshment, refuel, regale, regalement, rekindle, relight, relish, relume, repas, repast, rub down, run, saddle, sate, satiate, satisfy, savor, scratch, scratch feed, sell, set fire to, set on fire,
silage, slake, slops, spoon-feed, spread, stir the fire, stoke, stoke the fire, straw, strike a light, suckle, supply, support, sustain, swill, table, take, tame, taste, tend, top off, torch, touch off, train, treat, viands, victual, victuals, water, wet-nurse, wheat, wine and dine, yoke