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English

Pronunciation

Etymology

Old English fēdan, from Germanic. Cognate with Danish føde, Dutch voeden, Swedish föda.

Verb

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)

  1. (transitive) to give food to eat, nurture
    Feed the dog every evening.
  2. (intransitive) to eat (usually of animals)
    Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
  3. (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

Singular feed

Plural countable and uncountable; plural feeds

feed (countable and uncountable; plural feeds)

  1. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
    They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
  2. Something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed.
  3. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
    They held a crab feed on the beach.
  4. (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
  • Swedish: foder sv(sv) n.
  • Turkish: yem tr(tr)
something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed
  • German: Einspeisung de(de) f.
a gathering to eat, especially in quantity
  • German: Futtern de(de) n., Fütterung de(de) f.
encapsulated online content that you can subscribe to with a feed reader
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Related terms

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish fiche.

Pronunciation

Numeral

feed

  1. (cardinal) twenty

 

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