English Explanatory Dictionary

feed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To give (someone or something) food to eat.
  2. To eat (usually of animals).
  3. To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
  4. To give to a machine to be processed.
  5. To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
  6. To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
  7. To supply with something.
  8. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
  9. To pass to.
  10. To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
  11. To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
noun
  1. Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
  2. Something supplied continuously.
  3. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
  4. The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
  5. A meal.
  6. A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
  7. online content presented sequentially:
  8. antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
  9. content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
  10. A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of fee

Pronunciation

/ˈfiːd/ [ˈfɪi̯d] en-us-feed.ogg

Word forms

feed feeds feeding fed

Etymology

From Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan (“to feed”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with West Frisian fiede (“to nourish, feed”), Dutch voeden (“to feed”), Danish føde (“to bring forth, feed”), Swedish föda (“to bring forth, feed”), Icelandic fæða (“to feed”), and more distantly with Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb) through Indo-European. More at food, fodder.

Synonyms

nourish feast

Derived words

a closed mouth doesn't get fed bacon-fed bite the hand that feeds one boobfeed bottle-fed bottle-feed breast-fed breastfeed cofeed co-feed cornfed counterfeed don't feed the troll drip-feed fed cattle feedable feed a cold, starve a fever feed and water feed back feedboard feedee feeder feedfest feedforward feedhole feeding feed into feedism feedline feedlot feed off feed on feed one's face feedpoint feedroom feedsack feed the dragon feed the fire feed the flames feed the meter feed the troll feed through feedthrough feed two birds with one scone feed up feedway feedyard force-feed fullfeed give a man a fish and you feed him for a day teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime handfeed high-fed misfeed overfeed refeed self-feed spoon-fed spoon-feed stall-feed

Translations

Azerbaijani: lent Azerbaijani: lenta Azerbaijani: axış Bashkir: таҫма Chinese Mandarin: 消息來源 /消息来源 Czech: zdroj Dutch: feed Esperanto: abonfluo Finnish: syöte Georgian: არხი Georgian: ფიდი German: Feed Gujarati: ફીડ Hebrew: פִיד Hindi: फ़ीड Hungarian: hírfolyam Hungarian: hírcsatorna Hungarian: feed Indonesian: pasokan Indonesian: umpan Italian: feed Japanese: フィード Korean: 피드 Malay: suapan Norwegian: mating Polish: kanał Polish: aktualności Portuguese: feed Russian: новостна́я ле́нта Russian: ле́нта новосте́й Russian: фид Serbo-Croatian: sažetak sadržaja Serbo-Croatian: kanal Serbo-Croatian: izvor Spanish: feed (fid) Swahili: mlisho Vietnamese: nguồn cấp
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