wikipedia|dab=feed
English
Pronunciation
SAMPA|/'fid/
IPA|/'fid/
audio|en-us-feed.ogg|Audio (US)
Etymology
OE. fedan|f�dan, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch voeden, Swedish föda.
Verb
en-verb|feeds|feeding|fed
- transitive to give food to eat, nurture
#: Feed the dog every evening.
- intransitive to eat (usually of animals)
#: Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
- 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
(to give food to eat)
Albanian: ushqen
Breton: beva, maga
Catalan: alimentar
Basque: elikatu
Chinese: 餵
Croatian: hraniti
Danish: fodre
Dutch: voeden, voeren
Esperanto: man�igi
Finnish: syöttää, ruokkia
French: nourrir, alimenter
German: füttern, nähren
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Hungarian: etet, táplál
Indonesian: beri|memberi makan
Italian: nutrire, alimentare
Japanese: ����� (�����, tabesaseru)
Norwegian: mate#Norwegian|mate
Portuguese: alimentar#Portuguese|alimentar
Polish: karmi�
Russian: ко�ми��
Spanish: alimentar#Spanish|alimentar
Swedish: mata, nära, föda
(to eat)
Danish: leve af (2); indføre (3)
Dutch: zich voeden met (2), invoeren (3)
Finnish: syödä, käyttää ravintonaan
German: füttern (3), fressen (2)
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Italian: nutrirsi, cibarsi
Japanese: ������� (���������, tabemono wo ataeru)
Latin: vesci (2)
Portuguese: pôr (3)
Noun
en-noun|s|-
- uncountable food|Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
#: They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- Something supply|supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed.
- countable A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
#: They held a crab feed on the beach.
- Encapsulated online content that you can subscribe to with a feed reader. Used often for reading blog and news updates.
Translations
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Danish: foder (1); forsyning (2); gilde (3)
Dutch: voer n (1), voeder n (1), aanvoer m (2), festijn n (3)
German: Futter n (1), Einspeisung f (2), Essen n (3)
Related terms
feed dog
feeding frenzy
misfeed
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