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feed

/fid/

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What does feed mean?

verb

  1. To give (someone or something) food to eat.
  2. To eat (usually of animals).
  3. To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
More meanings (19)

verb

  1. To give to a machine to be processed.
  2. To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
  3. (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
  4. To supply with something.
  5. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
  6. To pass to.
  7. To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
  8. To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
  9. simple past and past participle of fee

noun

  1. Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
  2. Something supplied continuously.
  3. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
  4. The part of a fountain pen that supplies ink to the nib.
  5. The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
  6. A meal.
  7. A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
  8. antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
  9. content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
  10. A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
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IPA pronunciation

/fid/

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In the pages of books

See this word in context.

What this fire might be, what could feed it, why and how it lit up the liquid mass, I could not say.
Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues under the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #164
The may bloom had fallen, and among the hawthorn boughs were the little green bunches that would feed the red-wings in autumn.
Richard JefferiesThe Pageant of SummerProject Gutenberg ebook #414
More book examples (3)
On this table there were also various savoury dishes, together with cakes and fruit, prepared to feed the spirit of the dead.
Isaac Taylor HeadlandCourt Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and PeopleProject Gutenberg ebook #523
But in the Dakotas, the labor of one man will deliver in Chicago enough flour to feed three hundred men a year.
James J. (James John) DavisThe Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ItProject Gutenberg ebook #1297
She had been washing to feed her three children and for some days had nothing in the house but cornbread and molasses.
Carry Amelia NationThe Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. NationProject Gutenberg ebook #1485