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Meaning
Verb
●
To give (someone
or something
) food to eat.
●
To
eat
(usually of animals).
●
To give (someone
or something
) to (someone or
something else
) as food.
●
To give to a
machine
to be processed.
●
To
satisfy
,
gratify
, or
minister
to (a
sense
,
taste
,
desire
, etc.).
●
To supply with something.
●
To
graze
; to cause to be
cropped
by
feeding
, as
herbage
by cattle.
●
In Sports:
To
pass
to.
●
In Phonology:
To create the environment where another
phonological
rule
can
apply
; to be
applied
before another
rule
.
●
To create the
syntactic
environment in which another
syntactic
rule
is
applied
; to be
applied
before another
syntactic
rule
.
●
simple past
and
past participle
of fee
Noun
●
Food
given to
(especially
herbivorous
)
non-human
animals.
●
Something
supplied
continuously.
●
The part of a
machine
that
supplies
the
material
to be
operated
upon.
●
The forward
motion
of the
material
fed
into a machine.
●
In Australian English, British English & New Zealand English:
A meal.
●
A
gathering
to
eat
, especially in large quantities.
●
In Internet:
Encapsulated online
content
, such as
news
or a
blog
, that can be
subscribed
to.
●
A
straight man
who
delivers
lines
to the
comedian
during a performance.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
feed
English
feden
Middle English (1100-1500)
fedan
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Sourced from
Etym
Related
Eat
Consume
Bite
Devour
Give
Supply
Produce
Harvest
Starve
Farm
Grow
Forage
Push
Fodder
Pull
Fatten
Cook
Dump
Chew
Stream
Diet
Inject
Move
Catch
Graze
Suck
Meat
Bring
Turn
Raise
Fertilizer
Throw
Ingest
Draw
Digest
Nutrient
Support
Milk
Put
Destroy
Connect
Flow
Fish
Suckle
Sell
Manure
Drive
Serve
Train
Biomass
Kill
Plant
Pass
Power
Burn
Material
Content
Hold
Compost
Intake
More
Rhymes
Eid
Read
Mead
He'D
Cede
Reed
Weed
Meed
Seed
We'D
Mede
Deed
Ye'D
Feed
Lede
Heed
Bead
Need
Creed
Keyed
Plead
Glede
Knead
Speed
Blead
Tweed
Gleed
Steed
Sneed
Kneed
Bleed
Greed
She'D
Breed
Impede
Beread
Screed
Unheed
Tawhid
Expede
Recede
Indeed
Abreed
Thneed
Agreed
Exceed
Precede
Succeed
Nasheed
Aniseed
Concede
Mislead
Misread
Proceed
Stampede
Overbreed
Underfeed
Supersede
Intercede
Interbreed
Tumbleweed
Lushootseed
Counterplead
Port Said
More
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