feed (f d)v. fed (f  d), feed·ing, feeds v.tr. 1. a. To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children. b. To provide as food or nourishment: fed fish to the cat. 2. a. To serve as food for: The turkey is large enough to feed a dozen. b. To produce food for: The valley feeds an entire county. 3. a. To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer. b. To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation: Melting snow feeds the reservoirs. c. To distribute (a local radio or television broadcast) to a larger audience or group of receivers by way of a network or satellite. 4. a. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid. b. To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions. 5. To supply as a cue: feed lines to an actor. 6. Sports To pass a ball or puck to (a teammate), especially to set up a scoring chance. v.intr. 1. To eat: pigs feeding at a trough. 2. To be nourished or supported: an ego that feeds on flattery. 3. a. To move steadily, as into a machine for processing. b. To be channeled; flow: This road feeds into the freeway. n. Idiom: 1. a. Food for animals or birds. b. The amount of such food given at one time. 2. Informal A meal, especially a large one. 3. The act of eating. 4. a. Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace. b. The act of supplying such material. 5. a. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine. b. The aperture through which such material enters a machine. 6. a. The transmission or conveyance of a local radio or television program, as by satellite, on the Internet, or by broadcast over a network of stations. b. A program or signal so transmitted or conveyed. 7. Sports A pass of a ball or puck, especially to set up a scoring chance. off (one's) feed Suffering a lack of appetite; sick: The dog is off its feed this week. [Middle English feden, from Old English f dan; see p - in Indo-European roots.] |
feed
Verb
[feeding, fed]
1. to give food to (a person or an animal)
2. to give (something) as food: people feeding bread to their cattle
3. to eat food: red squirrel feed in the pines
4. to supply or prepare food for
5. to provide what is needed for the continued existence, operation, or growth of: illustrations which will feed an older child's imagination, pools fed by waterfalls
Noun
1. the act of feeding
2. food, esp. that given to animals or babies
3. Brit, Austral & NZ informal a meal [Old English fēdan]
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  feed - food for domestic livestock blood meal - the dried and powdered blood of animals corn gluten feed - a feed consisting primarily of corn gluten cattle cake - a concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes creep feed - feed given to young animals isolated in a creep fodder - coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop feed grain - grain grown for cattle feed ensilage, silage - fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo oil cake - mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops, swill - wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk mash - mixture of ground animal feeds cud, rechewed food - food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again mast - nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine fish meal - ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock |
| Verb | 1. | feed - provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts" |
| 2. | feed - give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" dine - give dinner to; host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my friends" scavenge - feed on carrion or refuse; "hyenas scavenge" fodder - give fodder (to domesticated animals) regurgitate - feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food; "many birds feed their young by regurgitating what they have swallowed and carried to the nest" corn - feed (cattle) with corn malnourish, undernourish - provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment; "The stunted growth of these children shows that they are undernourished" overfeed - feed excessively spoonfeed - feed with a spoon force-feed - feed someone who will not or cannot eat cater, ply, provide, supply - give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" lunch - provide a midday meal for; "She lunched us well" breakfast - provide breakfast for breastfeed, give suck, lactate, wet-nurse, suckle, nurse, suck - give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" bottlefeed - feed (infants) with a bottle inject - feed intravenously range - let eat; "range the animals in the prairie" | |
| 3. | feed - feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity" | |
| 4. | feed - introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor" | |
| 5. | feed - support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity" | |
| 6. | feed - take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" ingest, consume, have, take in, take - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" forage - wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods" raven - feed greedily; "The lions ravened the bodies" suckle - suck milk from the mother's breasts; "the infant was suckling happily" | |
| 7. | feed - serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six" | |
| 8. | feed - move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" flush - flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river" jet, gush - issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building" move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" circulate - move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point; "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate" run down - move downward; "The water ran down" pour - flow in a spurt; "Water poured all over the floor" spill, run out - flow, run or fall out and become lost; "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table" dribble, trickle, filter - run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" gutter - flow in small streams; "Tears guttered down her face" | |
| 9. | feed - profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity" | |
| 10. | feed - gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view" | |
| 11. | feed - provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" enrich - make better or improve in quality; "The experience enriched her understanding"; "enriched foods" nitrify - treat (soil) with nitrates dung - fertilize or dress with dung; "you must dung the land" topdress - scatter manure or fertilizer over (land) |
feed
verb 1. cater for, provide for, nourish, provide with food, supply, sustain, nurture, cook for, wine and dine, victual, provision
verb 3. eat, drink milk, take nourishment
verb 6. encourage, boost, fuel, strengthen, foster, minister to, bolster, fortify, augment, make stronger
noun 8. (Informal) meal, spread (informal) dinner, lunch, tea, breakfast, feast, supper, tuck-in (informal) nosh (slang) repast, nosh-up Brit. (slang)
feed on something live on, depend on, devour, exist on, partake of, subsist on
Translations
feed [fiːd] n (gen), [of baby] → comida; [of animal] → pienso;
(on printer) → dispositivo de alimentación
vt [pp, pt fed] (gen) → alimentar;
vi [baby, animal] → comer
feed back vt [+ results] → pasar
feed in vt (COMPUT) → introducir
feed into vt [+ data, information] → suministrar a;
to feed sth into a machine → introducir algo en una máquina
feed on vt fus → alimentarse de
feed [fiːd] n [of baby] → tétée f [of animal]; nourriture f, pâture f;
(on printer) → mécanisme m d'alimentation
vt [fed , pt , pp ] [fɛd] [+ person] → nourrir;
(Brit) [+ baby] (= breastfeed); allaiter: (with bottle) → donner le biberon à [+ horse etc]; donner à manger à [+ machine]; alimenter [+ data etc];
to feed sth into → enregistrer qch dans
feed on vt fus → se nourrir de
feed [fiːd] [fed , pt, pp ] n → Mahlzeit f;
(of animal) → Fütterung f;
(on printer) → Papiervorschub m
vt → füttern;
(family etc) → ernähren;
(machine) → versorgen;
feed back feed vt → zurückleiten
feed [fiːd] n [of baby] → pappa
vi [baby, animal] → mangiare;
to feed material into sth → introdurre materiale in qc;
to feed data/information into sth → inserire dati/informazioni in qc
feed back vt [+ results] → riferire
feed on vt fus → nutrirsi di
v feed [fiːd]
1 to give food to He fed the child with a spoon. voer, kos gee يُطْعِم храня krmit give mad; made füttern ταΐζω dar de comer a, alimentar söötma غذا دادن syöttää nourrir לְהַאֲכִיל खाना खिलाना, देना hraniti etet memberi makan gefa að borða; mata dar da mangiare, nutrire 食物を与える 음식을 주다, 먹이다 maitinti barot; ēdināt memberi makan voeden gi mat, fôre; amme żywić, karmić alimentar a hrăni кормить kŕmiť, chovať hraniti hraniti mata, utfodra ป้อนอาหาร beslemek 餵養 давати їжу; годувати کھانا کھلانا nuôi 喂养
2 (withon) to eat Cows feed on grass. voer, laat wei يَعْتاش على прехранвам се živit se, pást se na æde; leve af ernähren τρέφομαι (με) comer toituma خوردن syödä se nourrir (de) נִיזוֹן מְ- डालना hraniti se (necim), jesti eszik makan nærast á, lifa á, éta nutrirsi 食べる 먹다, 식사하다 maitintis baroties makan leven van beite, gresse, ete żywić się alimentar-se a se hrăni (cu) кормиться žrať hraniti se hraniti se äta, livnära sig på เลี้ยง beslenmek 喫, 吃 пастися کھانا (về súc vật hoặc nói đùa về người) ăn 吃
n
food especially for a baby or animals Have you given the baby his feed?; cattle feed. voeding, kos, voer عَلَف، طعام، وَجْبَه храна dávka krmení, jídlo; krmení, žrádlo måltid; foder die Mahlzeit, das Futter τροφή comida toit, sööt غذا؛ خوراک حیوانات ruoka, rehu biberon, fourrage אוכל खाना, माल मशीन में इस्तेमाल किये जाने वाला, पाईप जिससे मशीन को तेल आदि देते हैं hrana táplálék makanan fæði pasto; pascolo; foraggio 食べ物 먹이 maistas, pašaras barība; ēdiens makanan voeding mat, føde pokarm, pasza comida biberon; nutreţ питание; корм pitie, jedlo (pre dieťa); krmivo hrana, krma hrana utfodring, mat อาหารสัตว์ mama, besin, yem 食物 харчування; корм غذا thức ăn dành cho súc vật hoặc trẻ nhỏ 食物
fed up
tired; bored and annoyed I'm fed up with all this work! dik, vies, sat مُتَضايِق، مُنْزَعِج писва ми otrávený dødtræt etwas satt haben μπουχτισμένος harto kõrini خسته tympääntynyt en avoir assez נִשבָּר לִי अच्छा खाना देकर मोटा ताजा बना देना biti zasicen, umoran torkig van vmivel muak hundleiður; búinn að fá sig fullsaddan af stufo うんざりして 싫증난 persisotinęs man apnicis bosan beu lei alt sammen, luta lei zniechęcony cansado sătul de по горло сытый otrávený naveličan sit svega less på เหนื่อยมาก bıkmış, usanmış 厭倦 ситий по горло اکتایا ہوا chán nản; mệt mỏi 厌倦
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