Feed vs. Meal

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;

Mealnoun

Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).

Mealnoun

Food served or eaten as a repast.

Mealnoun

(obsolete) A time or an occasion.

Mealnoun

The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.

Mealnoun

A speck or spot.

Mealnoun

A part; a fragment; a portion.

Mealverb

To yield or be plentiful in meal.

Mealverb

(transitive) To defile or taint.

Mealnoun

A part; a fragment; a portion.

Mealnoun

The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.

Mealnoun

Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

Mealnoun

Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

Mealverb

To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

Mealverb

To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

Mealnoun

the food served and eaten at one time

Mealnoun

any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

Mealnoun

coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse

Meal

A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes prepared food. The names used for specific meals in English vary, depending on the speaker's culture, the time of day, or the size of the meal.