Meaning of feed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
   uncountable
2. To give (someone or something) food to eat
3. Something supplied continuously.
   countable, uncountable
4. To have lost one's appetite: The dog is off its feed this week.
5. To eat
6. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
   countable, uncountable
7. off one's feed, Slang. without any appetite for food, esp. because of illness.
8. To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food
9. The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
   countable, uncountable
10. Informal. A large meal elaborately prepared or served:banquet, feast, junket.
11. To give to a machine to be processed
12. To supply (a machine) with something to be processed
13. A meal.
    Australia, New-Zealand, UK, colloquial, countable
14. food especially for a baby or animals. Have you given the baby his feed?; cattle feed. voeding, kos, voer عَلَف، طعام، وَجْبَه храна comida dávka krmení, jídlo; krmení, žrádlo die Mahlzeit, das Futter måltid; foder τροφήcomida toit, sööt غذا؛ خوراک حیوانات ruoka biberon, fourrageאוכל खाना, माल मशीन में इस्तेमाल किये जाने वाला, पाईप जिससे मशीन को तेल आदि देते हैं hrana táplálék makanan fæði pasto; pascolo; foraggio 食べ物 (특히 가축, 아기의) 사료, 식사 maistas, pašaras barība; ēdiens makanan voedingmat, fød...
    especially
15. A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
    countable
16. tired; bored and annoyed. I'm fed up with all this work! dik, vies, sat مُتَضايِق، مُنْزَعِج писва ми de saco cheio otrávený etwas satt haben dødtræt μπουχτισμένοςharto kõrini خسته väsynyt en avoir assez נִשבָּר לִי अच्छा खाना देकर मोटा ताजा बना देना biti zasicen, umoran torkig van vmivel muak hundleiður; búinn að fá sig fullsaddan af stufo うんざりして 물리다, 싫증나다 persisotinęs man apnicis bosan beulei alt sammen, luta leizniechęcony ستړه cansado sătul de сытый по горло otrávený naveličan sit svega l...
17. online content presented sequentially:
    Internet, countable, uncountable
18. antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
    Internet, countable, uncountable
19. vt. alimentar, dar de comer; proveer materiales o asistencia.
20. content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
    Internet, countable, often, uncountable
21. To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children.
22. A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
    countable, uncountable
23. To serve as food for: The turkey is large enough to feed a dozen.
24. To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer.
25. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid.

Equivalents

Examples

“They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.”

“a satellite feed”

“the paper feed of a printer”

“184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; […]”

“"There won't be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so; there won't be any Royal Academy of Arts, and no nice little feeds at restaurants."”

“They held a crab feed on the beach.”

“I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.”

“Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and you will see the latest news at the top. The further back you scroll, the older the material gets.”

“I use Native, that’s what other Native people on Facebook use. I have 660 friends. Tons of Native friends in my feed. Most of my friends, though, are people I don’t know, who’d happily friended me upon request.”

“Despite spending years studying these toxic dynamics and the better part of a month watching them up close in strangers’ feeds, I was still, like so many, surprised to see it all reflected at the ballot box. We shouldn’t have been surprised; our divisions have been in front of our faces and inside our feeds this whole time.”

“Don Ward is often described as a former comic, having some experience in this area as a young man, acting as a feed for the comic actor David Lodge at Parkins Holiday Camp in Jersey […]”

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