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Feed has 15 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

food for domestic livestock

"The farmer loaded fresh hay into the wagon to feed the cows before they were let out to graze."

2

Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.

"The farmer spread hay on the ground to feed the hungry cows in the pasture."

In plain English: A feed is a single batch of content that an app shows you on your screen.

"The baby needs another feed before he goes to sleep."

Usage: Use "feed" as a noun when referring to food specifically provided to livestock or pets, such as animal feed in a barn. Do not use it for human meals, which should be called lunch, dinner, or simply food.

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"

3

feed into; supply

"Her success feeds her vanity"

4

introduce continuously

"feed carrots into a food processor"

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?"

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"

9

profit from in an exploitatory manner

"He feeds on her insecurity"

10

gratify

"feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"

11

provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

"We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"

12

To give (someone or something) food to eat.

"The old man would feed his horse oats every morning before dawn."

13

simple past tense and past participle of fee

In plain English: To feed means to give food to someone or something so they can eat.

"I need to feed the dog before I leave for work."

Usage: Do not use "feed" as the past tense or past participle of "fee"; instead, use "fed" in both cases. Use the verb "feed" only when describing the act of giving food to someone or something, such as feeding a pet or feeding an audience.

Example Sentences
"The baby needs another feed before he goes to sleep." noun
"The dog ate its morning feed before going for a walk." noun
"This vegetable garden provides enough feed for the livestock all winter long." noun
"The old bird feeder was filled with seeds to serve as daily feed." noun
"I need to feed the dog before I leave for work." verb
Related Terms
food eat give give food action giving eating animal giving food animal food cotton stainer frother counterbleed microphagous endophage cofeed feedeth crop dream feed vermivorous
Antonyms
famish
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
food provide supply insert promote consume move exploit regale enrich
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
blood meal corn gluten feed cattle cake creep feed fodder feed grain silage oil cake slop mash cud bird feed petfood mast fish meal dine scavenge regurgitate corn undernourish overfeed spoonfeed force-feed lunch breakfast breastfeed bottlefeed inject nutrify range crop forage raven suckle flush jet tide circulate eddy waste run down pour spill stream trickle drain seep gutter nitrify dung topdress

Origin

The word "feed" comes from Old English fēdan, which originally meant to provide food or nourish. It traveled into Middle English as feden and has been used in this sense ever since.

Rhyming Words
eed meed seed heed weed teed need deed keed peed leed beed reed steed speed freed ogeed greed treed kneed
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