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feed

Pronunciation: /fiːd/

The English word “feed” has 20 meanings listed here.

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

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

Etymology

From Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan (“to feed”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with West Frisian fiede (“to nourish, feed”), Dutch voeden (“to feed”), Danish føde (“to bring forth, feed”), Swedish föda (“to bring forth, feed”), Icelandic fæða (“to feed”), and more…

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