Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 33 senses
Definitions
- 1past tense & past participle
of Fee
- 2transitive verb
To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
- 3transitive verb
To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive verb
To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive 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.
- 8transitive verb
To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
- 9transitive 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).
- 10intransitive verb
To take food; to eat.
- 11intransitive verb
To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
- 12intransitive verb
To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
- 13intransitive verb
To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
- 14noun
That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
- 15noun
A grazing or pasture ground.
- 16noun
An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
- 17noun
A meal, or the act of eating.
- 18noun
The water supplied to steam boilers.
- 19noun
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.
- 20noun
The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
- 21noun
The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
- 22noun
food for domestic livestock
Synonyms
- 23verb
introduce continuously
"feed carrots into a food processor"
- 24verb
provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
"We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
- 25verb
give food to
"Feed the starving children in India"
"don't give the child this tough meat"
Synonyms
- 26verb
take in food; used of animals only
"This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"
"What do whales eat?"
Synonyms
- 27verb
serve as food for; be the food for
"This dish feeds six"
- 28verb
feed into; supply
"Her success feeds her vanity"
- 29verb
provide as food
"Feed the guests the nuts"
- 30verb
gratify
"feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
Synonyms
- 31verb
profit from in an exploitatory manner
"He feeds on her insecurity"
Synonyms
- 32verb
move along, of liquids
"Water flowed into the cave"
"the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
- 33verb
support or promote
"His admiration fed her vanity"
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