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[ English

[ Pronunciation

• SAMPA: /'fid/
• IPA: /'fid/
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• Rhymes: -iːd

[ Etymology

Old English fēdan, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch voeden, Swedish föda.

[ Verb

to feed (third-person singular simple present feeds, present participle feeding, simple past and past participle fed)

1. (transitive) to give food to eat, nurture

   Feed the dog every evening.

2. (intransitive) to eat (usually of animals)

   Spiders feed on gnats and flies.

3. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.

   Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.

   We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.

[ Translations

[ Noun

feed (countable and uncountable; plural feeds)

1. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.

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

2. Something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed.
3. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity

   They held a crab feed on the beach.

4. Encapsulated online content that you can subscribe to with a feed reader. Used often for reading blog and news updates.

[ Translations

[ Related terms

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