Feed

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.

Compare feed with other words:

feed vs. feod

feed vs. geed

feed vs. leed

feed vs. feted

feed vs. freed

feed vs. feud

feed vs. weed

feed vs. heed

feed vs. fend

feed vs. meed

feed vs. need

deed vs. feed

feed vs. reed

fee vs. feed

feed vs. seed

feed vs. fled

feed vs. feel

feed vs. feet

feed vs. graze

feed vs. forage

feed vs. ration

feed vs. raise

enter vs. feed

cherish vs. feed

feed vs. gise

feed vs. nutrication

bitternut vs. feed

feed vs. fooder

feed vs. lare

depasture vs. feed

fed vs. feed

deliver vs. feed

delivery vs. feed

feed vs. proposition

feed vs. rear

feed vs. fodder

feed vs. forge

breed vs. feed

battling vs. feed

feed vs. nosebag

batten vs. feed

feed vs. flagellum

feed vs. scratch

feed vs. pabulation

feed vs. scavenge

atom vs. feed

agronomy vs. feed

feed vs. kibble

feed vs. scavenger

feed vs. feeder

feed vs. slop

feed vs. stoke

feed vs. supply

aggregator vs. feed

feed vs. pamper

feed vs. nourish

bait vs. feed

feed vs. taster

feed vs. sprue

engorge vs. feed

feed vs. heck

feed vs. sorghum

agistment vs. feed

dine vs. feed

feed vs. vampire

aliment vs. feed

diet vs. feed

battle vs. feed

feed vs. pap

feed vs. soup

feed vs. table

feed vs. grain

decorticator vs. feed

feed vs. swallow

feed vs. underfeed

feed vs. overfeed

feed vs. subscribe

content vs. feed

feed vs. news

feed vs. herbivorous

feed vs. pass

feed vs. machine

feed vs. process

eat vs. feed

feed vs. nurture

feed vs. surfeit

feed vs. food