Feed

Verb

 * 1)  to give food to eat, nurture
 * Feed the dog every evening.
 * 1)  to eat (usually of animals)
 * Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To pass to

Noun

 * 1)  Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
 * They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
 * 1) Something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed.
 * 2)  A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
 * They held a crab feed on the beach.
 * 1)  Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that you can subscribe to with a feed reader.

Adverbs for Feed
serenely; omnivorously; sumptuously; gluttonously; continually; artfully; carefully; delicately; dietetically; scientifically; consistently; regularly; beneficially; sparingly.

Thesaurus
abet, aid and abet, allay, appease, ask for, assuage, bank, banquet, barley, bed, bed down, bird seed, board, bran, bread, break, break bread, breed, bridle, brush, bunker, burn, care for, cat food, cater, cherish, chicken feed, chop, chow, coal, coddle, conflagrate, corn, cosset, count calories, countenance, cradle, cultivate, culture, curry, currycomb, deliver, depend on, detonate, devour, diet, dine, dish out, dispense, dog food, drench, dry-nurse, eat, eatage, eats, edibles, encourage, enkindle, ensilage, entertainment, explode, fall to, fan the flame, fare, farm, fatten, feast, feed the fire, fill up, find, fire, fodder, fondle, food, forage, foster, fuel, fuel up, fulminate, furnish, gas, gas up, gentle, give encouragement, grain, grass, gratify, graze, groom, grow, grub, hand, hand over, handle, harness, hatch, hay, hitch, hunger, ignite, inflame, invite, keep, keep in countenance, kindle, lavish care on, light, light up, litter, maintain, manage, mash, meal, meat, mess, milk, mother, nourish, nurse, nurture, oats, oil, pamper, partake, partake of, pasturage, pasture, pet food, pitch in, provender, provide, provide for, provision, provisions, purvey, quench, raise, ranch, rear, refection, refreshment, refuel, regale, regalement, rekindle, relight, relish, relume, repas, repast, rub down, run, saddle, sate, satiate, satisfy, savor, scratch, scratch feed, sell, set fire to, set on fire, silage, slake, slops, spoon-feed, spread, stir the fire, stoke, stoke the fire, straw, strike a light, suckle, supply, support, sustain, swill, table, take, tame, taste, tend, top off, torch, touch off, train, treat, viands, victual, victuals, water, wet-nurse, wheat, wine and dine, yoke

Etymology
From feden:, from  fedan:, from, from. Cognate with fiede:,  voeden:,  føde:,  föda:,  fæða:,  pasco:. More at.

Verb

 * Albanian: ushqen
 * Arabic: غذى
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: elikatu
 * Breton: beva, maga
 * Catalan: alimentar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 哺育
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hindi: खिलाना


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: memberi makan
 * Italian:, , fare mangiare
 * Japanese: 食べさせる,
 * Lao: ເກືອ
 * Latin: cito
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, dar de comer
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu: తినిపించు (tinipinchu)
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: کھلانا
 * !Xóõ: ʻâã


 * Czech: živit se
 * Danish: leve af
 * Dutch: zich voeden met
 * Finnish: syödä, käyttää ravintonaan
 * French: ,


 * German:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 食べ物を与える (たべものをあたえる, tabemono wo ataeru)
 * Latin: vesci (2),
 * Turkish: beslenmek


 * Danish: indføre
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Portuguese:

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,


 * German:
 * Romanian: strânsură,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German:


 * Dutch: festijn
 * Finnish:


 * German: ,


 * Czech:


 * Finnish:


 * : forsyning (2); gilde (3)

Derived terms

 * bite the hand that feeds one
 * chicken feed
 * feed dog
 * feeding frenzy
 * feedstock


 * give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
 * misfeed
 * overfeed
 * underfeed

Etymology
From fichet: (compare  fichead:), genitive singular of fiche: <  (compare  ugain:) <  (compare  viginti:) <.

Numeral

 * 1)  twenty