feed

Definitions of feed in various dictionaries:

noun - food for domestic livestock

verb - provide as food

verb - give food to

verb - feed into

verb - introduce continuously

verb - support or promote

verb - take in food

verb - serve as food for

verb - move along, of liquids

verb - profit from in an exploitatory manner

verb - gratify

verb - provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children.

To provide as food or nourishment: fed fish to the cat.

To serve as food for: The turkey is large enough to feed a dozen.

To produce food for: The valley feeds an entire county.

To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer.

To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation: Melting snow feeds the reservoirs.

To distribute (a local radio or television broadcast) to a larger audience or group of receivers by way of a network or satellite.

To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid.

To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions.

To supply as a cue: feed lines to an actor.

To pass a ball or puck to (a teammate), especially in order to score.

To eat: pigs feeding at a trough.

To be nourished or supported: an ego that feeds on flattery.

To move steadily, as into a machine for processing.

To be channeled; flow: This road feeds into the freeway.

Food for animals or birds.

The amount of such food given at one time.

A meal, especially a large one.

The act of eating.

Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace.

The act of supplying such material.

An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.

The aperture through which such material enters a machine.

Distribution of a locally broadcast radio or television program by way of a network or satellite to a larger audience or group of receivers.

adj - to give food to [v FED, FEEDING, FEEDS] : FEEDABLE