(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
(2) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(3) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(4) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(5) Actinomycin D could suppress the effects of RSD feeding on the protein synthetic rate of some, but not of all, secretory proteins.
(6) Circuitry has been developed to feed the output of an ear densitogram pickup into one channel of a two-channel Holter monitor.
(7) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
(8) Occasional vomits occur postoperatively in over half of patients but we are sceptical of the value of graded postoperative feeding regimens.
(9) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(10) Isolated microbial enzymes are being used in feed analysis.
(11) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
(12) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
(13) Intelligence scores are also related to feeding patterns, with those exclusively breastfed for 4-9 months displaying the highest scores in relation to their age.
(14) About half of the total of the 13 selected parameters showed reactions of the intermediary metabolism of the test groups caused by the feeding.
(15) Averaged across all dietary levels, tiamulin resulted in a 14.1% improvement in gain and a 5.7% improvement in feed:gain ratio during the first 28 to 35 d of the experiment (to 30 kg).
(16) A rapid and simple method has been developed for the nondestructive distinction between aflatoxin B1 and the feed antioxidant, ethoxyquin.
(17) No net hepatic uptake of glucose was observed before or after feeding.
(18) This article addresses the special problems raised by patients who resist medical feeding.
(19) Repeated feedings of 1 mg of Sudan III induced cumulative increases in the concentration of menadione reductase (EC 1.6.99.2) in liver, whereas protein concentration was unchanged.
(20) The announcement on feed-in tariffs will be welcomed by Labour backbenchers, who staged the biggest revolt of Gordon Brown's leadership over the issue.
Subscribe
Definition:
(v. t.) To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.
(v. t.) To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
(v. t.) To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
(v. t.) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.
(v. t.) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
(v. t.) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
(v. i.) To sign one's name to a letter or other document.
(v. i.) To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree.
(v. i.) To become surely; -- with for.
(v. i.) To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.
(v. i.) To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.
(v. i.) To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subscribers to the paper's print and digital editions also now contribute to half the volume of its total sales.
(2) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.
(3) The huge new TV money first arrived in 1992 after Rupert Murdoch’s executives realised that only football could bring the battalions of addicted subscribers they needed to grow Sky TV.
(4) The promise of exclusive photos and an "official chatroom" doesn't exactly set our world alight – but White is also promising subscribers four 7" records, four 12" records and four new T-shirts a year.
(5) "This is a real problem for Setanta, they are not going to have a critical mass of matches to persuade people to subscribe," said one city analyst.
(6) The company said it has spent £172m on what it terms subscriber acquisition costs and marketing in the year to the end of March, a £20m increase over the previous year.
(7) Movie and TV service Netflix announced Monday that it would raise prices for new subscribers and use the new funds to buy more content.
(8) I subscribe to the view that Britain should remain a nuclear power and that our deterrent should continue to be submarine based.
(9) Ethical standards are a set of affirmative responsibilities to which the investigator must subscribe; behavior that is incompatible with these responsibilities should be presumed unethical, whether or not it is explicitly proscribed.
(10) Under the draft proposals, internet service providers with more than 400,000 subscribers will start collecting the details of customers suspected of sharing copyrighted content next year, in order to send them warning letters.
(11) TL 7 CHEWING SAND HAZEL HAYES Stats 25,000 subscribers, 800,000 views Who is she?
(12) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
(13) If only 5% of those 40 million subscribe to the Daily , that's already two million customers."
(14) Eighty-four percent of the discrete citations retrieved were from 664 periodicals subscribed to by both services.
(15) The company effectively put itself up for sale in August amid a heavy losses from its failed PlayBook tablet and a decline in its handset business and subscriber numbers and revenues.
(16) The service will be offered at no extra cost to subscribers who have already signed up for Sky+HD, although customers will need a broadband connection.
(17) The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said at Smith's tribunal that it believed some of the information held by the covert organisation and accessible to companies that subscribed to the service "could only have been supplied by the police or the security services".
(18) The marketing slogan was: “There are 1,000 reasons not to believe in independent television, but just 1,000 roubles will get it for you.” Now, the price has gone up, to 4,800 roubles per year, and the channel has around 60,000 subscribers, with Muscovites making up nearly 40% of that number.
(19) He had always subscribed to the pacifist principles at the heart of Plaid Cymru's philosophy.
(20) HelloFresh sends 4m meals each month to its subscribers in the UK, US, Australia and parts of Europe.