Feed (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

verb (used with object), fed, feed·ing.
  1. to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.
  2. to yield or serve as food for: This land has fed 10 generations.
  3. to provide as food.
  4. to furnish for consumption.
  5. to satisfy; minister to; gratify: Poetry feeds the imagination.
  6. to supply for maintenance or operation, as to a machine: to feed paper into a photocopier.
  7. to provide with the necessary materials for development, maintenance, or operation: to feed a printing press with paper.
  8. to use (land) as pasture.
  9. Theater Informal.
    • to supply (an actor, especially a comedian) with lines or action, the responses to which are expected to elicit laughter.
    • to provide cues to (an actor).
    • to prompt: Stand in the wings and feed them their lines.
  10. to distribute (a local broadcast) via satellite or network.
verb (used without object), fed, feed·ing.
  1. (especially of animals) to take food; eat: cows feeding in a meadow; to feed well.
  2. to be nourished or gratified; subsist: to feed on grass; to feed on thoughts of revenge.
noun
  1. food, especially for farm animals, as cattle, horses or chickens.
  2. an allowance, portion, or supply of such food.
  3. a meal, especially a lavish one.
  4. the act of feeding.
  5. the act or process of feeding a furnace, machine, etc.
  6. the material, or the amount of it, so fed or supplied.
  7. a feeding mechanism.
  8. feeder (def. 10).
  9. Theater Informal.
    • a line spoken by one actor, the response to which by another actor is expected to cause laughter.
    • an actor, especially a straight man, who provides such lines.
  10. a local television broadcast distributed by satellite or network to a much wider audience, especially nationwide or international.
  11. Digital Technology.
    • a website or application that publishes updates from social media or news-collection websites in reverse chronological order: I follow all of the latest celebrity gossip in my Twitter feed.
    • an XML-based web document that is updated automatically at predetermined intervals and includes descriptive titles or short descriptions and links to recent pages on a website: Subscribe to news feeds to get the latest news from around the world.
Idioms
  1. to pass (work) successively into a machine in such a manner that each new piece is held in place by or connected to the one before.
  2. off one's feed, Slang.
    • reluctant to eat; without appetite.
    • dejected; sad.
    • not well; ill.
verb feeds, feeding or fed (fɛd) (mainly tr)
  1. to give food to
  2. to give as food
  3. to eat food
  4. to provide food for
  5. to provide what is necessary for the existence or development of
  6. to gratify; satisfy
  7. to supply (a machine, furnace, etc) with (the necessary materials or fuel) for its operation, or (of such materials) to flow or move forwards into a machine, etc
  8. to use (land) as grazing
  9. to cue (an actor, esp a comedian) with lines or actions
  10. to pass a ball to (a team-mate)
  11. to introduce (electrical energy) into a circuit, esp by means of a feeder
  12. to eat or cause to eat
noun
  1. the act or an instance of feeding
  2. food, esp that of animals or babies
  3. the process of supplying a machine or furnace with a material or fuel
  4. the quantity of material or fuel so supplied
  5. a facility allowing web users to receive news headlines and updates on their browser from a website as soon as they are published
  6. the rate of advance of a cutting tool in a lathe, drill, etc
  7. a mechanism that supplies material or fuel or controls the rate of advance of a cutting tool
  8. a performer, esp a straight man, who provides cues
  9. a meal
Feed (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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