Feed
[fiːd] or [fid]
Definition
(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'.
Typed by Aileen--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Maura
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Inputed by Josiah
Definition
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.
Editor: Miriam
Examples
- They picket them here to feed at night and keep them out of sight in the timber in the daytime, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Obviously, as the cylinder was turned, the needle followed a spiral path whose pitch depended upon that of the feed screw. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We feed him once a day, and not too much then, so that he is always as keen as mustard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In some the pug mill is arranged horizontally to feed out the clay in the form of a long horizontal slab, which is cut up into proper lengths to form the bricks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Because the ferments of that fermentation feed more easily on the right hand than on the left hand molecules. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And this man that's to be his master--you, sir--you'll treat him well, and feed him, and do all that sort of thing, will you? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A silo is a place or receptacle for storing green feed to preserve it for future feeding on the farm. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It would have been very like a Christian, and a marvellously good Christian too, if Oliver had prayed for the people who fed and took care of _him_. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A large number of baths can be run by this apparatus by connecting them with a bath fed by it. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I know that I lounged about the streets, insufficiently and unsatisfactorily fed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In this way the grain that was to be cut would be properly fed to the knife. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- If a man has just eaten, or if he is well fed generally and the opportunity to hear music is a rarity, he will probably prefer the music to eating. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The system of filling adopted consists of a culvert in each side wall feeding laterals from which are openings upward into the lock chamber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an Inquisition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A silo is a place or receptacle for storing green feed to preserve it for future feeding on the farm. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The land is manured, either by pasturing the cattle upon it, or by feeding them in the stable, and from thence carrying out their dung to it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They are incapable of making their own nests, or of feeding their own larvae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The horse was impatient at the tenderness while he was feeding. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The same girl who feeds the gum into the wrapping machine closes the lids of the boxes and places them on a packing table by her side. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The expense of a great lord feeds generally more idle than industrious people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It is this stock which feeds, clothes, and lodges the people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He appeared of a russet hue, not more distinguishable from the scene around him than the green caterpillar from the leaf it feeds on. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Among other important improvements in the steam engine are those for replenishing the water in the boiler, and the Giffard Injector is the simplest and most ingenious of all boiler feeds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I am one of that class of people that feeds you all, and at present abused by you all; in short, I am a _farmer_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Typist: Rosa