Feed

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1 Pronunciation 2 Verb 2.1 Translations 3 Noun 3.2 Translations 4 Related terms

Pronunciation

to feed (fed, fed)

1. (transitive); to give food to eat, nurture

   Feed the dog every evening.

2. (intransitive); to eat (usually of animals)

   Spiders feed on gnats and flies.

3. to guide something evenly or continuously in or through

   Feed the paper gently into the slot.

• Danish: fodre (1); leve af (2); indføre (3)
• Dutch: voeden (1), voeren (1), zich voeden met (2), invoeren (3)
• Esperanto: manĝigi
• French: nourrir, alimenter
• German: füttern (1), fressen (2)
• Indonesian: memberi makan
• Japanese: 食べさせる (たべさせる, tabesaseru), 食べ物を与える (たべものをあたえる, tabemono wo ataeru)
• Spanish: alimentar

1. food given to (especially herbivorous) animals. (mass / uncountable)

   They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.

2. something supplied continuously

   a satellite feed

3. a gathering to eat, especially in quantity (countable)

   They held a crab feed on the beach.