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Definition: Meaning of, feed in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / fiːd /

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Prsesent Past Past Participle
feed fed fed
Present Participle Third Person Singular
feeding feeds
  1. give food [transitive] to give food to a person or animal
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  2. give food [transitive] to provide enough food for a group of people
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  3. plant [transitive] to give a special substance to a plant, which helps it grow
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  4. animal/baby [intransitive] if a baby or an animal feeds, they eat
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  5. well-fed/under-fed/poorly-fed having plenty of food or not enough food
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  6. computer [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to put information into a computer over a period of time
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  7. supply something [transitive] to supply something, especially a liquid, gas, or electricity
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  8. put something into something [transitive] to put something into something else, especially gradually and through a small hole
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  9. increase emotion [transitive] to increase the strength of an emotion, desire etc
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  10. feed an addiction/need etc to satisfy a strong need, such as a need for a drug
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  11. information [transitive] to give someone information or ideas over a period time
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  12. sport [transitive] to throw or hit a ball to someone else on your team, especially so that they can make a point
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  13. feed lines/jokes to somebody to say things to another performer so that they can make jokes
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  14. feed your face informal to eat a lot of food [=  stuff yourself]
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  15. tv/radio [transitive] to send a television or radio programme somewhere so that it can be broadcast
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  16. feed somebody a line informal to tell someone something which is not true, so that they will do what you want
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Singular Plural
feed feeds
  1. baby [countable] British English one of the times when you give milk to a small baby
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  2. animal food [uncountable] food for animals
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  3. supply [countable] a tube or piece of equipment which supplies a machine with something, especially FUEL
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  4. tv/radio/computer [uncountable and countable] when a television or radio signal, computer information etc is sent somewhere, or the connection that is used to do this
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  5. meal [countable] old-fashioned a big meal
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feed used in phrases

  • bird feed (noun)
    1. food given to birds; usually mixed seeds
  • bottle-feed (verb)
    1. to feed a baby or young animal with milk from a bottle rather than from their mother's breast
  • breast-feed (verb)
    1. if a woman breastfeeds, she feeds her baby with milk from her breast rather than from a bottle [↪  suckle, bottle-feed] [=  nurse]
  • chicken feed (noun)
    1. an amount of money that is so small that it is almost not worth having
  • corn gluten feed (noun)
    1. a feed consisting primarily of corn gluten
  • creep feed (noun)
    1. feed given to young animals isolated in a creep
  • drip feed (noun)
    1. blood, saline or plasma etc. the administration of a solution one drop at a time
  • feed back (verb)
    1. information submit again to a program or automatic system
    2. respond to a query or outcome
  • feed bunk (noun)
    1. a long trough for feeding cattle
  • feed grain (noun)
    1. grain grown for cattle feed
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feed used in phrasal verbs

  • feed off (phrasal verb)
    1. feed off something if animals feed off something, they eat it
    2. feed off or feed on feed off something to use something in order to continue to exist or become stronger
  • feed on (phrasal verb)
    1. feed on something if an animal feeds on something, it eats it, especially as its usual food
    2. feed on something same as feed off (sense 2)
  • feed up (phrasal verb)
    1. to give someone more food than usual in order to make them stronger or less thin
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Knut Hamsun
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1859-1952 norwegian writer of novels
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