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Meaning feed meaning

What does feed mean?
Definitions in simple English

feed Verb

— When you feed someone, you give them food to eat. I feed my dog chicken bones every day. — To eat. Farm-raised chickens feed on grain. — To give something to a machine. To start printing, feed the paper into the printer. Don't forget to feed the parking meter.

feed Noun

— Food that is eaten by animals. Bird feed consists mainly of seeds.

feed

— verb provide as food Feed the guests the nuts — noun food for domestic livestock — verb (= give) give food to Feed the starving children in India don't give the child this tough meat — verb feed into; supply Her success feeds her vanity — verb introduce continuously feed carrots into a food processor — verb (= eat) take in food; used of animals only This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat What do whales eat? — verb support or promote His admiration fed her vanity — verb serve as food for; be the food for This dish feeds six — verb gratify feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view — verb profit from in an exploitatory manner He feeds on her insecurity — verb (= flow) move along, of liquids Water flowed into the cave the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi — verb (= fertilize, fertilise) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants

Synonyms feed synonyms

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feed English » English

nourish eat fodder support forage nurture graze raise supply provender food feeding fatten provide for maintain look after fertilize sustain serve pasture keep input flow bring up run provide with food nurse give food foster fertilise feed in devour course care for victual stuff rear prey grub give feast dine consume swill strengthen slop share service sate provision

Topics feed topics

What do people use feed to talk about?
Daily life Food

Eat
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal eating
Person Life Stage of life Baby

Care for a baby
Work and occupation Animal husbandry Domesticated animal

Pig
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Tend herds in fields
Daily life Fire

Tend a fire

Conjugation feed conjugation

How do you conjugate feed?

feed · verb

Examples feed examples

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Simple sentences

I feed my cat every morning and every evening.
Lions feed on flesh.
Whales feed on small fish.
I never feed my dog raw meat.
After the game, he went straight home to feed his dog.
I have to feed my cat.
How many times do you feed the fish?
I don't breast-feed their babies.
I'm going to go feed the ducks.
Fish and even whales and seals feed on the krill.
Feed the dog.
Don't feed the pigeons, please.
To be an interesting person you have to feed and exercise your mind.
How often do you feed the fish?
Cattle feed on grass.
It is time to feed the sheep.
Pandas feed on bamboo grass.
Please feed the dog every day.
Don't feed the dog.
I feed data into a computer.
These animals feed on grass.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
Most whales feed on plankton.
One hundred dollars is just chicken feed.
Feed chickens with seeds.

Movie subtitles

With just this one shirt, I can feed 5 people in my family.
Can I feed him for some milk too?
They cut the feed!
We're getting a feed from the stadium now.
Today, they're building ocean-going ships again in China vast ships capable of bringing back the raw materials necessary to feed China's insatiably growing industrial economy.
Since I'm unable to feed my spirit, my powers are becoming weaker.
Feed their pigs?
He's coping well with that and can feed himself using his feet, which is quite the party piece.
The railroad doesn't need to ask permission to feed its employees.
Aching with hunger, despite his warnings, Ulysses' companions feed on the meat of the sacred bulls.
Even though Saladin's coffers were empty, He continued to feed the poor.
Only a beggar knows how to feed a beggar.
To the bottom to feed the worms!
I'll feed you when you're all here.
Algeria has 3.5 million people. It can feed 20.
He's gone to feed the fishes!
John, did you feed them hounds?
So feed 'em well and treat 'em right, and we'll have no trouble.
They leave their coffins at night and they feed on the blood of the living.
I want you to help me feed the seagulls. If you come along with me, colonel.
Remember that's only chicken feed.
Chicken feed.
And I won't be obliged to feed a bum.
If the man dies, who will feed Russia?
How long does it take to feed this pack of dogs?
And some of your mother's feed. And two of the best nags from out of the stable.
How are you going to feed it?
Hey, a man's gotta feed his family, and I got a big family.
I am too weak to feed him.
Feed her on the floor!
Why let him feed you with that stuff?
As you let me down and went to work for Jean-Marie, he'll have to feed you!
I'm through with that chicken feed.
And since you can't use a famous signature. you'll only get chicken feed.
Now go on and put on the feed bag.
I'll feed him every day.
Maybe they ought to feed you too!
With me gone, it means just one less mouth to feed.

News and current affairs

Not only do these farmers then feed their families, but they also can begin to earn market income and to save for the future.
Their scientific breakthroughs have helped to feed the world, and we'll need more of them.
Mistaking a solvency problem for a liquidity shortfall, Europe has become hooked on the drip feed of bailouts.
At the same time, it pointed to the need to increase food production to feed the extra two billion people expected to be alive in 2050, and suggested that more investment in agriculture in developing countries is required to improve productivity.
The US humanitarian mission to that benighted country sought to salvage a failed United Nations enterprise to secure and feed Somalia's ravaged population.
They are all poor, buffeted by natural disasters - especially floods, droughts, and earthquakes - and have rapidly growing populations that are pressing on the capacity of the land to feed them.
That is enough corn to feed 350 million people for an entire year.
But working conditions can also trigger or accelerate the symptoms of ill health - physical and mental - that feed back into our productivity and earning capacity, as well as into our social and family relationships.
Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.
The world's poorest would be able to feed and educate their children better and become healthier.
Inefficient and loss-making state-owned enterprises (SOEs) remain the primary beneficiaries of official economic policy, kept alive on a drip-feed of government subsidies and cheap loans from state-owned banks.
Most of Africa's farmers, working tiny plots, do not produce enough food to feed their families, much less to earn an income.
Long-term estimates project that over a 50-year time horizon, most of the planet's arable land would have to be used to feed the world and for forest conservation.
The traits that enable people to feed and protect themselves increase the likelihood that they will live long enough to produce offspring, whom they will be able to feed and protect until maturity.
The mandarins of northern Europe continue to measure out a drip-feed of support with coffee spoons.
A feed-in tariff subsidizes the low-carbon energy source rather than taxing the high-carbon energy source.
In fact, Europe's biggest successes in promoting low-carbon energy have come from its feed-in tariffs, and carbon taxes in some countries, rather than its cap-and-trade system.
A small and gradually rising carbon tax that funds a feed-in tariff system could win political support in the US.
Can We Feed the World?
By investing in and spreading innovative technologies, strengthening market linkages, encouraging visionary leadership, and targeting those most in need - and thus with the most potential - we can feed the world.
The government must avoid relying too much on proposals for tax increases, which ultimately feed back on growth and sustainability.
I wake her up in the morning, assist her in toileting, bathing, and dressing, make us breakfast, and help her feed herself.

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