Feed

[fiːd] or [fid]

解释:

(noun.) food for domestic livestock.

(verb.) introduce continuously; 'feed carrots into a food processor'.

(verb.) give food to; 'Feed the starving children in India'; 'don't give the child this tough meat'.

(verb.) take in food; used of animals only; 'This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat'; 'What do whales eat?'.

(verb.) serve as food for; be the food for; 'This dish feeds six'.

(verb.) feed into; supply; 'Her success feeds her vanity'.

(verb.) provide as food; 'Feed the guests the nuts'.

(verb.) gratify; 'feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view'.

(verb.) support or promote; 'His admiration fed her vanity'.

艾琳编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(imp. & p. p.) of Fee

(v. t.) To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.

(v. t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.

(v. t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.

(v. t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.

(v. t.) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.

(v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.

(v. t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.

(v. t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).

(v. i.) To take food; to eat.

(v. i.) To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.

(v. i.) To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.

(v. i.) To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.

(n.) That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.

(n.) A grazing or pasture ground.

(n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.

(n.) A meal, or the act of eating.

(n.) The water supplied to steam boilers.

(n.) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.

(n.) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.

(n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.

录入:莫拉

同义词及近义词:

v. a. [1]. Give food to, furnish with provisions, supply with nourishment.[2]. Supply, contribute to, provide for.[3]. Nourish, cherish, sustain.

v. n. [1]. Eat, take food, take nourishment.[2]. Subsist, sustain life.

n. Food (for beasts), provender, fodder.

约西亚整理

解释:

v.t. to give food to: to nourish: to furnish with necessary material: to foster.—v.i. to take food: to nourish one's self by eating:—pr.p. feed′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. fed.—n. an allowance of provender esp. to cattle: the motion forward of anything being fed to a machine: (Milt.) a meal: (Shak.) pasture land.—ns. Feed′er he who feeds or that which supplies: an eater: one who abets another: one who fattens cattle: (obs.) a parasite; Feed′-head the cistern that supplies water to the boiler of a steam-engine; Feed′-heat′er an apparatus for heating the water supplied to a steam-boiler; Feed′ing act of eating: that which is eaten: pasture: the placing of the sheets of paper in position for a printing or ruling machine; Feed′ing-bott′le a bottle for supplying liquid food to an infant; Feed′-pipe a pipe for supplying a boiler or cistern with water; Feed′-pump a force-pump for supplying a steam-engine boiler with water.

校对:米里亚姆

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整理:罗莎

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