feed
feed is a 4-letter English word with 33 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Fee. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- past tense & past participle. of Fee
- transitive verb. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
- transitive verb. To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
- transitive verb. 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).
- intransitive verb. To take food; to eat.
- intransitive verb. To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
- intransitive verb. To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
- intransitive verb. To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
- noun. That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
- noun. A grazing or pasture ground.
- noun. An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
- noun. A meal, or the act of eating.
- noun. The water supplied to steam boilers.
- noun. The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
- noun. The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
- noun. The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
- noun. food for domestic livestock
- verb. introduce continuously
"feed carrots into a food processor"
- verb. provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
"We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
- verb. give food to
"Feed the starving children in India"
"don't give the child this tough meat"
- verb. take in food; used of animals only
"This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"
"What do whales eat?"
- verb. serve as food for; be the food for
"This dish feeds six"
- verb. feed into; supply
"Her success feeds her vanity"
- verb. provide as food
"Feed the guests the nuts"
- verb. gratify
"feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
- verb. profit from in an exploitatory manner
"He feeds on her insecurity"
- verb. move along, of liquids
"Water flowed into the cave"
"the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
- verb. support or promote
"His admiration fed her vanity"
Synonyms
provender, fertilise, fertilize, give, eat, feast, prey, course, flow, run
Common word forms
feeds, feeded, feeder, feeding, feedable
Words from these letters
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