FEED
\fˈiːd], \fˈiːd], \f_ˈiː_d]\
Definitions of FEED
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle
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support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity"
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food for domestic livestock
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give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"
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serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six"
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provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts"
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introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor"
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gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
By Princeton University
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gratify; "feed one's eye on a gorgeous view"
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support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity"
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food for domestic livestock
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give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"
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serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six"
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provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
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To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
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To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
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To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
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To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
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To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
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To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
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To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
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To take food; to eat.
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To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
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To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
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That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
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A grazing or pasture ground.
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An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
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A meal, or the act of eating.
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The water supplied to steam boilers.
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The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
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The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
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To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; - with on or upon.
By Oddity Software
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To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
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To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
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To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
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To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
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To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
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To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
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To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
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To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
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To take food; to eat.
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To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
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To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
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That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
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A grazing or pasture ground.
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An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
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A meal, or the act of eating.
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The water supplied to steam boilers.
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The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
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The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
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To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; - with on or upon.
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of Fee
By Noah Webster.
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To give food to; nourish; to give as food; as, to feed oats to horses; supply with necessaries; furnish with materials; as, to feed a machine.
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To eat; subsist; with on or upon; to graze or pasture.
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A certain quantity of food given to animals at one time; fodder; pasture.
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Feeder.
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Fed.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To give food to; to nourish; to furnish with necessary material; to foster.
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To take food; to nourish one's self by eating; -pr.p. feeding; pa.t. and pa.p. fed.
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An allowance of provender given to cattle.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. That which is eaten by beasts; provender; fodder;—a grazing or pasture ground;—allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, &c.
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To supply with food; to graze, to consume by cattle; to nourish, to cherish; to keep in hope or expectation; to delight, to entertain.
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To take food; to prey, to live by eating; to grow fat or plump.
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Food, that which is eaten; pasture.
By Thomas Sheridan
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