Sekirov Dictionary

feed

/fiːd/

verb 11
noun 11
forms 8
phrases 11

verb11

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to provide someone or something with food to eat
- Feed the dog every evening.
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To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby.
- Feed the fish to the dolphins.
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To give to a machine to be processed.
- Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
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To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
- We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.
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To supply with something.
- Springs feed ponds with water.
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To eat (usually of animals).
- Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
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(figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. — 1596
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To pass to.
- 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 — 2010
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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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To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
- Nasalization feeds raising.
To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).

noun11

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Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
- They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
(Internet) online content presented sequentially.
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(Internet) antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
- 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.
(Internet) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
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Something supplied continuously.
- a satellite feed
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The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- the paper feed of a printer
The part of a fountain pen that supplies ink to the nib.
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A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- They held a crab feed on the beach.
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(UK, informal) A meal.
- 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; […]
The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
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A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
- 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 […] — 2020

forms

fed · feeded · feddest · yfed · feeding · feedeth · feeds · feedest

Phrases with feed

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