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[1] to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.
[2] to yield or serve as food for: This land has fed 10 generations.
[3] to provide as food.
[4] to furnish for consumption.
[5] to satisfy; minister to; gratify: Poetry feeds the imagination.
[6] to supply for maintenance or operation, as to a machine: to feed paper into a photocopier.
[7] to provide with the necessary materials for development, maintenance, or operation: to feed a printing press with paper.
[8] to use (land) as pasture.
[9] Theater Informal . to supply (an actor, especially a comedian) with lines or action, the responses to which are expected to elicit laughter. to provide cues to (an actor). Chiefly British . to prompt: Stand in the wings and feed them their lines.
[10] Radio and Television . to distribute (a local broadcast) via satellite or network.
[11] (especially of animals) to take food; eat: cows feeding in a meadow; to feed well.
[12] to be nourished or gratified; subsist: to feed on grass; to feed on thoughts of revenge.
[13] food, especially for farm animals, as cattle, horses or chickens.
[14] an allowance, portion, or supply of such food.
[15] Informal . a meal, especially a lavish one.
[16] the act of feeding.
[17] the act or process of feeding a furnace, machine, etc.
[18] the material, or the amount of it, so fed or supplied.
[19] a feeding mechanism.
[20] Electricity . feeder(def 10) .
[21] Theater Informal . a line spoken by one actor, the response to which by another actor is expected to cause laughter. an actor, especially a straight man, who provides such lines.
[22] a local television broadcast distributed by satellite or network to a much wider audience, especially nationwide or international.
[23] Digital Technology . a website or application that publishes updates from social media or news-collection websites in reverse chronological order: I follow all of the latest celebrity gossip in my Twitter feed. an XML-based web document that is updated automatically at predetermined intervals and includes descriptive titles or short descriptions and links to recent pages on a website: Subscribe to news feeds to get the latest news from around the world.
[24] chain feed , to pass (work) successively into a machine in such a manner that each new piece is held in place by or connected to the one before.
[25] off one's feed , Slang . reluctant to eat; without appetite. dejected; sad. not well; ill.
[26] a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.
[27] a sum paid or charged for a privilege: an admission fee.
[28] a charge allowed by law for the service of a public officer.
[29] Law . an estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs(fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail) . an inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services. a territory held in fee.
[30] a gratuity; tip.
[31] to give a fee to.
[32] Chiefly Scot. to hire; employ.
[33] to give food to to feed the cat
[34] to give as food to feed meat to the cat
[35] (intr) to eat food the horses feed at noon
[36] to provide food for these supplies can feed 10 million people
[37] to provide what is necessary for the existence or development of to feed one's imagination
[38] to gratify; satisfy to feed one's eyes on a beautiful sight
[39] (also intr) to supply (a machine, furnace, etc) with (the necessary materials or fuel) for its operation, or (of such materials) to flow or move forwards into a machine, etc
[40] to use (land) as grazing
[41] theatre informal to cue (an actor, esp a comedian) with lines or actions
[42] sport to pass a ball to (a team-mate)
[43] electronics to introduce (electrical energy) into a circuit, esp by means of a feeder
[44] (also intr; foll by on or upon) to eat or cause to eat
[45] the act or an instance of feeding
[46] food, esp that of animals or babies
[47] the process of supplying a machine or furnace with a material or fuel
[48] the quantity of material or fuel so supplied
[49] computing a facility allowing web users to receive news headlines and updates on their browser from a website as soon as they are published
[50] the rate of advance of a cutting tool in a lathe, drill, etc
[51] a mechanism that supplies material or fuel or controls the rate of advance of a cutting tool
[52] theatre informal a performer, esp a straight man, who provides cues
[53] informal a meal
[54] a payment asked by professional people or public servants for their services a doctor's fee ; school fees
[55] a charge made for a privilege an entrance fee
[56] property law an interest in land capable of being inherited See fee simple, fee tail the land held in fee
[57] (in feudal Europe) the land granted by a lord to his vassal
[58] an obsolete word for a gratuity
[59] in fee law (of land) in absolute ownership archaic in complete subjection
[60] rare to give a fee to
[61] mainly Scot to hire for a fee

Words related to Feed

fodder, forage, hay, grain, meal, corn, barley, satisfy, bolster, nourish, supply, provide, give, deliver, encourage, maintain, sustain, stuff, fuel, find

Words nearby Feed

fee-for-service, fee-splitting, feeb, feeble, feeble-minded, feed, feed a cold; starve a fever, feed bag, feed one's face, feed someone a line, feed the kitty

Origin of Feed

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French fie, variant of fief fief. See feudal

Other words from Feed

feed·a·ble , adjective
out·feed , verb (used with object), out·fed, out·feed·ing.
re·feed , verb, re·fed, re·feed·ing.
un·feed·a·ble , adjective
fee·less , adjective
o·ver·fee , noun
su·per·fee , noun

Word origin for Feed

C14: from Old French fie , of Germanic origin; see fief

Synonyms for Feed

barley, corn, fodder, forage, grain, hay, meal, grass, grub, pasturage, provender, provisions, silage, straw, animal food, vittles