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What (who) is Feed - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
The Feed; Feeds; Feed (disambiguation); Feed (novel); The Feed (disambiguation); Feed (film); The Feed (TV series)

feed         
v.
1) (A) they fed erroneous information to us; or: they fed us erroneous information
2) (d; tr.) to feed into, to (to feed data into a computer)
3) (D; intr.) to feed on (certain animals feed on insects)
feed         
(feeds, feeding, fed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you feed a person or animal, you give them food to eat and sometimes actually put it in their mouths.
We brought along pieces of old bread and fed the birds...
In that part of the world you can feed cattle on almost any green vegetable or fruit...
He spooned the ice cream into a cup and fed it to her.
VERB: V n, V n on/with n, V n to n, also V pron-refl
Feed is also a noun. (mainly BRIT)
She's had a good feed.
N-COUNT
feeding
The feeding of dairy cows has undergone a revolution.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
To feed a family or a community means to supply food for them.
Feeding a hungry family can be expensive .
...a food reserve large enough to feed the Sudanese population for many months.
VERB: V n, V n
3.
When an animal feeds, it eats or drinks something.
After a few days the caterpillars stopped feeding...
Slugs feed on decaying plant and animal material.
VERB: V, V on/off n
4.
When a baby feeds, or when you feed it, it drinks breast milk or milk from a bottle.
When a baby is thirsty, it feeds more often...
I knew absolutely nothing about handling or feeding a baby.
VERB: V, V n
5.
Animal feed is food given to animals, especially farm animals.
The grain just rotted and all they could use it for was animal feed.
...poultry feed.
N-MASS: usu n N
6.
To feed something to a place, means to supply it to that place in a steady flow.
...blood vessels that feed blood to the brain.
...gas fed through pipelines.
VERB: V n prep, V n prep
7.
If you feed something into a container or piece of equipment, you put it into it.
She was feeding documents into a paper shredder.
VERB: V n prep
8.
If someone feeds you false or secret information, they deliberately tell it to you.
He was surrounded by people who fed him ghastly lies...
At least one British officer was feeding him with classified information.
VERB: V n n, V n with n, also V n to n
9.
If you feed a plant, you add substances to it to make it grow well.
Feed plants to encourage steady growth.
VERB: V n
10.
If one thing feeds on another, it becomes stronger as a result of the other thing's existence.
The drinking and the guilt fed on each other.
VERB: V on n
11.
To feed information into a computer means to gradually put it into it.
An automatic weather station feeds information on wind direction to the computer.
VERB: V n into/to n
12.
to bite the hand that feeds you: see bite
mouths to feed: see mouth
feed         
I. v. a.
1.
Give food to, furnish with provisions, supply with nourishment.
2.
Supply, contribute to, provide for.
3.
Nourish, cherish, sustain.
4.
Supply with material.
II. v. n.
1.
Eat, take food, take nourishment.
2.
Subsist, sustain life.
III. n.
1.
Food (for beasts), provender, fodder.
2.
Allowance (of fodder).
3.
Feeding mechanism, feeder.

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Feed or The Feed may refer to:

Examples of use of Feed
1. "It is exactly what we need to feed the soil and therefore feed vegetables and feed people," Murphy said.
2. Zambia should be able to feed Africa, but today it cannot feed itself.
3. She added: ‘She couldn‘t feed herself and the nursing didn‘t have time to feed her.
4. Nine feed mills and three retail feed stores supplied the feed ingredients. _ 147 herd mates and offspring were presumed to have been slaughtered for food, feed or other use, and 21 could not be traced.
5. FDA said it would ban blood, poultry litter and restaurant plate waste from cattle feed and require feed mills to use separate equipment to make cattle feed.