feed
noun
- food for farm animals
- input in a communications system
verb
- provide nourishment to
- cause to eat
- provide additional basis, emphasis, or energy towards
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈfiːd/ / [ˈfɪi̯d]
noun
Etymology: From Middle English fede, fed, from the verb (see above). Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse fœða (“nourishment, food”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), whence also Old English fēdan (“to feed”).
- Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
“They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.”
- Something supplied continuously.
“a satellite feed”
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
“the paper feed of a printer”
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- A meal.
“184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; […]”
“"There won't be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so; there won't be any Royal Academy of Arts, and no nice little feeds at restaurants."”
- A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
“They held a crab feed on the beach.”
- online content presented sequentially:
“I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.”
- online content presented sequentially:
“Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and you will see the latest news at the top. The further back you scroll, the older the material gets.”
“I use Native, that’s what other Native people on Facebook use. I have 660 friends. Tons of Native friends in my feed. Most of my friends, though, are people I don’t know, who’d happily friended me upon request.”
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
“Don Ward is often described as a former comic, having some experience in this area as a young man, acting as a feed for the comic actor David Lodge at Parkins Holiday Camp in Jersey […]”
verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
- simple past and past participle of fee