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English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -iːd
Etymology
Old English fēdan, from Germanic. Cognate with Danish føde, Dutch voeden, Swedish föda.
Verb
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Infinitive to feed |
Third person singular feeds |
Simple past fed |
Past participle fed |
Present participle feeding |
to feed (third-person singular simple present feeds, present participle feeding, simple past and past participle fed)
- (transitive) to give food to eat, nurture
- Feed the dog every evening.
- (intransitive) to eat (usually of animals)
- Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
- (transitive) 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.
Noun
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Singular feed |
Plural countable and uncountable; plural feeds |
feed (countable and uncountable; plural feeds)
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
- They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- Something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed.
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
- They held a crab feed on the beach.
- (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that you can subscribe to with a feed reader.
Derived terms
Translations
food given to (especially herbivorous) animals
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Related terms
- feed dog
- feeding frenzy
- feedstock
- give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
- misfeed
Manx
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA: /fiːdʒ/
Numeral
feed
- (cardinal) twenty
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