Feed vs. Fed
Feedverb
(transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
Feedverb
(intransitive) To eat usually of animals.
Feedverb
(transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
Feedverb
(transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
Feedverb
(figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
Feedverb
To supply with something.
Feedverb
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
Feedverb
To pass to.
Feedverb
To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
Feedverb
To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
Feedverb
simple past tense and past participle of fee
Feednoun
(uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
Feednoun
Something supplied continuously.
Feednoun
The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
Feednoun
(countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
Feednoun
(Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
Feedverb
To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
Feedverb
To satisfy; gratify or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
Feedverb
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.
Feedverb
To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
Feedverb
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.
Feedverb
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.
Feedverb
To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
Feedverb
To take food; to eat.
Feedverb
To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; - with on or upon.
Feedverb
To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
Feedverb
To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
Feednoun
That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
Feednoun
A grazing or pasture ground.
Feednoun
An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
Feednoun
A meal, or the act of eating.
Feednoun
The water supplied to steam boilers.
Feednoun
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.
Feednoun
food for domestic livestock
Feedverb
provide as food;
Feedverb
give food to;
Feedverb
feed into; supply;
Feedverb
introduce continuously;
Feedverb
support or promote;
Feedverb
take in food; used of animals only;
Feedverb
serve as food for; be the food for;
Feedverb
move along, of liquids;
Feedverb
profit from in an exploitatory manner;
Feedverb
gratify;
Feedverb
provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to;
Fednoun
a federal government officer or official, especially FBI and DEA agents.
Fednoun
a police officer.
Fed
imp. & p. p. of Feed.
Fednoun
any federal law-enforcement officer
Fednoun
the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state charted commercial banks and some trust companies;
