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noun
- (uncountable) food, Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
- They sell , 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 on the beach.
- Encapsulated online content that you can subscribe to with a feed reader. Used often for reading blog and news updates.
Translations: - Dutch: voer n (1), voeder n (1), aanvoer m (2), festijn n (3)
- German: Futter n (1), Einspeisung f (2), Essen n (3)
verb (feeds, feeding, fed)
- (transitive) to give food to eat, nurture
- Feed the dog every evening.
- (intransitive) to eat (usually of animals)
- Spiders 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: - Dutch: zich voeden met (2), invoeren (3)
- French: nourrir, alimenter
- German: fí¼ttern (3), fressen (2)
- Italian: nutrirsi, cibarsi
- Italian: nutrire, alimentare
- Spanish: alimentar
Etymology: fedan, fÄdan, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch voeden, Swedish fída.
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