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Definition: Feed |
FeedNoun1. Food for domestic livestock. Verb1. Provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts". 2. Give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat". 3. Feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity". 4. Introduce continuously; as into a a machine or processor: "feed carrots into a food processor". 5. Support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity". 6. Take in food; used of animals only: "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?". 7. Serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six". 8. Profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity". 9. Gratify; "feed one's eye on a gorgeous view". 10. : provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; in agriculture and gardening; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "feed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Feed \Feed\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Fed; Feeding.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. To provide a signal. 2. The point at which a signal enters a circuit or device, as antenna feed.3. The signal entering a circuit or device; input. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The conductor, cable, or waveguide that conducts the energy that is to be transmitted from the transmitter to the aerial. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A signal input supplied to a circuit or transmission line. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | A device for feeding workpieces automatically into machine tools. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | The offset characterises the type of arrangement of the teeth on a broaching tool. Source: European Union. (references) |
| To impart a feed movement to a tool or workpiece. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| That movement of a tool or workpiece in relation to the machine frame by which successively new portions of the workpiece are subjected to the effect of the main movement. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. Material treated for removal of its valuable mineral contents. Also, feed to any machine or process along a mill's flow line. Also called mill-head ore b. The process of supplying material to a conveying or processing unit c. The forward motion imparted to the drills or cutters of a rock-drilling or coal-cutting machine. d. A mechanism that pushes a drill into its work e. The longitudinal movements imparted to a drill stem to cause the bit to cut and penetrate the formation being drilled f. See:drill feed g. The distance that the drill stem on a diamond drill may be advanced before the rods must be rechucked h. In stonecutting, sand and water employed to assist the saw blade incutting. (references) |
Physics | Controlled adjustment of the tool electrode during spark erosion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | To send (as radio or television program) by wire to a transmitting station for broadcast. Source: European Union. (references) |
| To send (a radio or television program) by wire to a transmitting station for broadcast. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Slang | Noun. Source: Adapted meaning from the normal english verb. Definition: The action of passing the puck. Can also be used as a verb. Context: Would be used when referring to a pass. Social Source: New York City club hockey players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Birdfeeding is a hobby which involves feeding and observing wild birds in largely urban locations. Alternatively the emphasis may be on the real or perceived support of the birds rather than the hobby aspect.
A bird table in an English garden (with a Woodpigeon on the roof). This table provides water, peanuts, sunflower seeds and a seed mix.
Larger version
Although birdfeeding and birdwatching both have to do with an interest in birds, they are quite different. Birdwatching is, generally speaking, a non-invasive activity where the birdwatcher goes into the field and tries to observe birds in their natural habitat with a minimum of disturbance.
Birdfeeding involves an active and deliberate attempt to modify nature by providing food and sometimes shelter (which may be of benefit to birds, harmless, harmful, or even illegal depending on the circumstances). From the human's point of view, it is a more passive, common and informal approach to enjoying wild birds.
One feeds birds in the general area of one's backyard for the purpose of attracting them closer to one's vantage point in the house, to watch them through the window. Alternatively, one may sit in the garden, or on a terrace or bench in the street, a square or a park. Thus one may enjoy the beauty of nature conveniently.
Birdfeeding can be a harmless and quite often an environmentally helpful pastime, but must be practiced with thought and care. It is easy to do more harm than good by, for example, allowing birds to become dependant on artificial food supplies, or upsetting the natural balance between different species. Except in severely degraded urban environments, it is generally frowned upon by naturalists.
Several billion dollars each and every year are spent by ardent birdfeeders who indulge their wild birds with a variety of wild bird seeds, suets, nectars, home concoctions, etc. Birdfeeding is regarded as the number one or number two most popular pastime in the USA. Some 55 million Americans are involved in birdfeeding putting it right up there with gardening as things people like to spend their time doing.
The hobby has spawned an industry that generates billions each year in the sales of birdseed, birdfeeders, birdhouses (nesting boxes), mounting poles, squirrel baffles, binoculars, etc. This phenomenon has come to be known as The Birdstore. Hundreds of these Birdstores have cropped up over the last 15 years all through the country. Backyard Birds in Michigan, Wild Birds Unlimited in Indiana to name two.
Most every civilized country practices birdfeeding in one way or another. Some simply share their table scraps with the wild birds. Others, primarily Western European and North American birdfeeders have developed a more studied approach, providing special feeders for seed, suet, nectar and a host of other feeding aids. Companies such as Droll Yankees, Duncraft and others have pioneered feeder designs that provide efficient seed delivery systems for the birds.
The most common birds in cities are:
Several of these species do a great deal of damage and are classified as invasive vermin in many parts of the world, including some gulls, the domestic pigeon, the domestic sparrow, and the European Starling. In some cities feeding certain birds is forbidden, either because they compete with vulnerable native species, or because they abound and cause pollution and/or noise.
- duck or goose
- gull
- jackdaw
- pigeon, in particular rock dove, see there for city squares famous for them;
- sparrow
- starling
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Birdfeeding."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Feeding is supplying food.In telecommunication, the term feed has the following meanings:
1. To supply a signal to the input of a system, subsystem, equipment, or component, such as a transmission line or antenna.
2. A coupling device between an antenna and its transmission line.
Note: A feed may consist of a distribution network or a primary radiator.
3. A transmission facility between (a) the point of origin of a signal, such as is generated in a radio or television studio, and (b) the head-end of a distribution facility, such as a broadcasting station in a network.
4. Pertaining to the function of inserting one thing into another, such as in a feed horn, paper feed, card feed, and line feed.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Feed."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FEED | English | Field Emission Energy Distribution | Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: FeedSynonyms: provender (n), eat (v), feast (v), feed in (v), fertilise (v), fertilize (v), give (v), grub (v), prey (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: lay-by (publishing & graphic arts). |
| Antonym: starve (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aid | Cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse; manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the flame. |
Food | Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble. |
Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana. | |
Live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse; (make merry); eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet. | |
Food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese. | |
Hope | Feel hope, entertain hope, harbor hope, indulge hope, cherish hope, feed hope, foster hope, nourish hope, encourage hope, cling to hope, live in hope; Noun: see land; feel assured, rest assured, feel confident, rest confident; Adjective: |
Provision | Cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed. |
Servility | Pay court to; feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres, keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Feed |
| English words defined with "feed": corn gluten feed, creep feed ♦ Feed bag, Feed gear, feed grain, Feed head, Feed heater, Feed motion. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "feed": automatic feed ♦ choke feed, cutler feed ♦ Emergency livestock feed programs ♦ face-up feed, FEED AND FARM MANAGEMENT ADVISER, FEED BLENDER, feed drive, feed elevator worker, feed hopper, feed marks, feed miller, Feed of Corn, feed ratio, feed shaft, feed speed, feed spindle, FEED WEIGHER, form feed, friction feed ♦ nutating feed ♦ Paper Feed Control Character, pin feed ♦ regulated feed, right-hand feed scre ♦ sliding feed, sprocket feed, SUPERVISOR, FEED MILL, supplementary feed, surfacing feed ♦ tangential feed, tractor feed ♦ washbox feed sill. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "feed": Trophi. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Feed" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (score, twenty). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I feed on those who cross my path (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) I wouldn't feed that thing (Stargate; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich) All we have to do is feed it, it'll shut up. (Three Men and a Baby; writing credit: Jim Cruickshank; James Orr) This is where the hungry come to feed. From mine it's a generation that's circles the globe and searches something we haven't tried before (The Beach; writing credit: John Hodge) Mantovani? They feed Mantovani to insomniacs who don't respond to strong drugs (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) | |
Lyrics | Taste me, Feed me (More Than A Woman; performing artist: Aaliyah) No hungry mouths to feed. (From a Distance; performing artist: Bette Midler) And it doesn't have to rhyme so don't you feed me a line (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler) Cuz he's hungry, and the only way to feed him is to sleep (What Would You Do; performing artist: City High) It's another hungry mouth to feed (In the Ghetto; performing artist: Elvis Presley) | |
Clever | Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (references; author: Chinese Proverb.) Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy (references; author: unknown) Feed you faith, and your doubts will starve to death! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Feed the Kitty (1952) Love 'Em and Feed 'Em (1927) Chicken Feed (1927) Don't Feed the Gondolas (1998) Feed Your Head (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Foreign trainees in the field operating a hypo-chlorinator, which is a chemical feed pump used in the disinfection of drinking water. Credit: CDC. |  | Primarily a disease of the tropics, Dengue Fever is caused by one of four viruses of the genus Flavivrus and is spread by Aedes aegypti, a domestic, day-biting mosquito that prefers to feed on humans. Credit: CDC. |
 | Landing feed for the horses at Middle Point South coast of Unimak Island Party off of DISCOVERER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The Snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina, is easily confused with the alligator snapping turtle. Considered ill-tempered, they feed on invertebrates, fish, reptiles, carrion, etc. and a surprising amount of vegetation. These turtles trapped in the fresh and brackish waters of bay tributaries and sold to restaurants for use in soups and stews. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | YEEHAW!!! What great weather!! Numerous weak stomachs helped feed the fish that night. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Decomposing fish in the hold of a purse seiner. Fish decompose as a result of lack of refrigeration. Although this material is unfit for human consumption, it is used as a base for fishmeal for animal feed. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Seagulls feed on stranded lobsters and surf clams after the oil spill incident. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A bucket full of quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria. Quahogs feed by filtering plankton from the water, pumping up to a gallon per hour or more, depending on temperature. This feeding activity helps to improve water quality and clarity in Narragansett Bay and is an important ecological link between the Bay's water column and its benthic, or bottom-dwelling community. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Close-up of a Golden Silk female spider. The females of this species can range between 30 to 40 mm in length. The smaller males, two seen on the other side of the web in this photo, are only 4-6 mm long. These spiders feed primarily on flying insects. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Loggerhead sea turtles nest on South Carolina beaches from May to August. Adult and juvenile sea turtles can be observed in South Carolina estuaries during most months of the year where they feed on a variety of shellfish. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Feed the student 2" by Elias Minasi Commentary: "Children from a baby house, they are eating his break launch." | "Proud seagull" by Brendan Paxton Commentary: "The seagull after he got his feed from some bystanders on the dock at fort desoto." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Aeschylus | I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. |
Author Unknown | Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death. |
| The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds. | |
Chinese Proverb. | Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. |
Clara Barton | I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. |
Desiderius Erasmus | Who feed on Hope, hang on but do not live. |
Lord Chesterfield | Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. |
Savarin | Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect and judgment knows how to eat. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But when there was not room enough in the same place, for their herds to feed together, they by consent, as Abraham and Lot did, Gen. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Similarly, the right of taking water from the Rhine is accorded to Belgium to feed the Rhine-Meuse navigable waterway provided for below. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Horrors | Carroll, Lewis | I saw a monster come with speed, Its face of grimmliest green, On human beings used to feed, Most dreadful to be seen |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They do not eat men, they feed upon them |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | To feed my humour, wish thyself no harm |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Get your three dollars a day, feed your kids |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | However, now and then they take a whale that happens to be dashed against the rocks, which the common people feed on heartily |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This tuber seemed like a faint promise of Nature to rear her own children and feed them simply here at some future period |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Do not feed raccoons. (references) | |
To live, the nymph must feed on blood. (references) | ||
To live, adult lice need to feed on blood. (references) | ||
Business | Locally produced feed additives cannot meet market demand. (references) | |
Raw materials for producing feed additives such as secaline and sophytol need to be imported. (references) | ||
The development of animal husbandry will also boost the development of the animal feed and breeding. (references) | ||
Children | Paraguay | The Constitution protects certain children's rights and stipulates that parents and the State should care for, feed, educate, and support children. (references) |
Bulgaria | NGO monitors further allege that even food budgets are highly deficient, with many institutions dependent on the uneven flow of private donations to feed their charges. (references) | |
Economic History | Austria | Pet food is defined as livestock feed. (references) |
Human Rights | Macedonia | Police also burned animal feed stocks. (references) |
Nicaragua | The authorities occasionally released detainees when they no longer could feed them. (references) | |
Minorities | Madagascar | These policies feed enduring tension between coastal and highland inhabitants. (references) |
Political Economy | Jordan | Price controls remain on bread, pharmaceuticals, gasoline, and animal feed. (references) |
VENEZUELA | Venezuela implemented the Andean Community's price band system in 1995 for certain agricultural products, including feed grains, oilseeds, oilseed products, sugar, rice, wheat, milk, pork and poultry. (references) | |
SPAIN | Faced with the loss of the Spanish feed grain market as a result of Spain's membership in the EU, the United States negotiated an enlargement agreement with the EU in 1987, which established a 2.3 million ton annual quota for Spanish imports of corn and specified non-grain feed ingredients and sorghum from non-EU countries. (references) | |
Trade | Qatar | Basic food products such as wheat, flour, rice, feed grains and powdered milk are exempted from customs duty. (references) |
Mauritius | Importation of animals, animal feed, plants, and seeds must satisfy phytosanitary conditions and are subject to rigorous quarantine regulations. (references) | |
Nigeria | Additionally foreign oil companies and representatives of multinationals are encouraged to supply or feed the AFEM by selling their foreign currencies directly to the AFEM. (references) | |
Women | Portugal | After return to work, a new mother (or father) may take time off every day to nurse or feed an infant. (references) |
Afghanistan | Many women reportedly were reduced to selling all of their possessions and to begging to feed their families. (references) | |
Kuwait | She had worked for this family for over a year, during which time she reported that her employers did not feed her regularly and withheld her salary. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Thailand | Typically, local traffickers feed persons into larger networks, after which they exercise no further control and hear no more of them. (references) |
India | Children sent from their homes to work because their parents cannot afford to feed them, or in order to pay off a debt incurred by a parent or relative, have no choice in the matter. (references) | |
Mauritania | Slavery was abolished officially three times in the country, most recently by the post-independence government in 1980. Even before 1980, the practice of slavery among the traditionally pastoralist Moors had been reduced greatly by the accelerated desertification of the 1970's; many White Moors dismissed their former Black Moor slaves because the depletion of their herds left them unable either to employ or to feed slaves. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HOVEL, n. The fruit of a flower called the Palace. Twaddle had a hovel, Twiddle had a palace; Twaddle said: "I'll grovel Or he'll think I bear him malice" -- A sentiment as novel As a castor on a chalice. Down upon the middle Of his legs fell Twaddle And astonished Mr. Twiddle, Who began to lift his noddle. Feed upon the fiddle- Faddle flummery, unswaddle A new-born self-sufficiency and think himself a [mockery.] G.J. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | When it comes to helping mankind feed the world, the sky is the limit for the cloning and biological engineering field. |
Rush Limbaugh | The government doesn't earn a dime of its own money, but if you dare say you can't afford to feed it, you're evil and mean and selfish. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | I am proud of a program that has helped to arm and feed and clothe millions of people who live on the front lines of freedom. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Others, a handful in number, produce enough food to feed all of us and then the world beyond. |
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| "Feed" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 56.30% of the time. "Feed" is used about 2,736 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 56.3% | 1,540 | 5,311 |
| Noun (singular) | 23.15% | 633 | 10,269 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20.52% | 561 | 11,166 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,736 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Nippon Formula Feed Manufacturing Company Limited | South Korea | Daesang Feed Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "feed": agglomerated feed ♦ antenna feed ♦ automatic feed ♦ be off its feed ♦ big feed ♦ chicken feed ♦ corn gluten feed ♦ creep feed ♦ cutler feed ♦ directive feed ♦ down feed ♦ drip feed ♦ feed arrangement ♦ feed back ♦ Feed bag ♦ feed bunk ♦ Feed cloth ♦ feed crop ♦ feed dog ♦ Feed door ♦ feed down ♦ feed drive ♦ feed fishes ♦ feed forward ♦ Feed gear ♦ feed grain ♦ Feed head ♦ Feed heater ♦ feed hope ♦ feed hopper ♦ feed in ♦ feed line ♦ feed lot ♦ feed marks ♦ feed mechanism ♦ feed motion ♦ feed motion directed to the interior ♦ feed motion towards the interior ♦ feed movement ♦ feed movement directed to the interior ♦ feed movement towards the interior ♦ feed off ♦ feed on ♦ feed one's ego ♦ feed oneself ♦ feed out ♦ Feed pipe ♦ Feed pump ♦ feed rate override ♦ feed regulation ♦ feed regulator ♦ Feed screw ♦ feed the fire ♦ feed the fishes ♦ feed the flame ♦ feed up ♦ feed upon ♦ Feed water ♦ feed well ♦ Feed wheel ♦ force feed ♦ forced feed lubrication ♦ form feed ♦ friction feed ♦ fuel feed ♦ gravity feed ♦ hand feed ♦ line feed ♦ magazine feed ♦ magazine feed attachment ♦ manual feed ♦ page feed ♦ page feed sequence ♦ paper feed ♦ paper Feed Control Character ♦ parallel feed ♦ pelleted feed ♦ pig feed ♦ pin feed ♦ premixed feed ♦ pressure feed ♦ previously mixed feed ♦ roll feed ♦ sheet feed ♦ sliding feed ♦ spoon feed ♦ sprocket feed ♦ supplementary feed ♦ surfacing feed ♦ tangential feed ♦ tape feed ♦ tape feed sequence ♦ the Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed ♦ to be off one's feed ♦ tractor feed ♦ vibratory feed. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "feed": feed-and-expansion, feed-back, feed-back-loops, feed-bag, feed-conversion, feed-ditch, feed-forward, feed-grains, feed-line, feed-lot, feed-pipe, feed-pump, feed-related, feed-screw, feed-store, feed-stuff, feed-tank, feed-through, feed-time, feed-trough, feed-troughs, feed-water, feed-work. | |
Ending with "feed": chicken-feed, end-feed, filter-feed, gravity-feed, line-feed. | |
Containing "feed": after-feed pump, float float-feed or spray, float-feed carburetor, force-feed lubricating system, pressure-feed lubricating system. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
speed and feed | 259 | feed supplement | 70 |
feed | 244 | live sex feed | 67 |
feed the child | 215 | antibiotic feed free | 66 |
horse feed | 138 | feed formulation | 66 |
live feed | 130 | bird feed baby | 65 |
feed additive | 126 | sheep feed | 63 |
animal feed | 117 | feed private | 63 |
livestock feed | 116 | bird feed | 60 |
breast feed | 111 | chicken feed | 55 |
conversion feed | 108 | free sex feed | 54 |
feed rss | 108 | feed magazine | 52 |
free live feed | 104 | pig feed | 51 |
feed store | 99 | feed planning strategic tactical | 50 |
free live sex feed | 97 | feed room | 47 |
live video feed | 84 | cattle feed | 46 |
feed rite | 79 | free video feed | 44 |
humming bird feed | 78 | dealership feed | 43 |
news feed | 77 | feed live nba | 40 |
feed weed | 73 | purina feed | 38 |
deer feed | 72 | purina horse feed | 38 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "feed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | eet (eat). (various references) | |
Albanian | furnizoj (deliver, equip, equip with, fit out, furnish, lay on, outfit, provide with, purvey, supply, victual), furnizim (furnishing, providing, provision, purveyance, supply), ushqim për kafshë (feedstuff), ushqim (aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, fare, feeding, food, foodstuff, grub, input, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, repast, supply, sustenance, table, tack, Tommy), ushqej (cherish, forage, Foster, nourish, nurse, prime, Stoke), ushqehet, pasoj (ensue, follow, pass on), mekanizëm furnizimi, ha (chamfer, consume, demolish, despatch, dispatch, eat, eat away, elide, erode, ingest, shark), e ngrënë (chamfer, fare, ragged). (various references) | |
Arabic | ما يكفى من الطعام ليوم, لقم (load, stuff), غذى (nourish, nurse, nurture, stoke, supply, sustain, underfeed), غذاء (aliment, diet, food, meat, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition), علف (fodder, force feed, mash), طعم (diet, engraft, fill, implant, inlay, inoculate, keep, nourish, relish, savor, savour, taste, transplant, troll), طعام (aliment, chuck, common, eatables, eating, fare, food, kosher, meat, nourishment, provender, ration), إقتات (live), أطعم, أشبع (appease, assuage, charge, drench, flood, full, gratify, please, requite, sate, satiate, saturate, slake, soak, steep), آكل, رضى (accept, be content with, cater for, get on with smth., gratify, please, pleasure, sate, satisfy, tickle, unhand), شجع (animate, cheer, comfort, countenance, cultivate, embolden, encourage, fortify, foster, hearten, inspirit, instigation, invite, nerve, promote, root, spur, support). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | захранвам (supply), давам храна на, изхранвам (keep, nourish, subsist, sustain), паса (browse, depasture, grass, graze, herd, pasture, range, run, tend, wrangle), пасене (feeding), поддържам (adhere, atlas, back, bear, buoy, carry, contend, expound, favour, fuel, help on, hold, hold up, keep, keep up, maintain, nourish, play along, ply, promote, prop up, pull for, retain, run, service, side with, stand for, stand in with, support, sustain, take, upbear, uphold, vindicate, vouch), подавам (hand, hold out, lay, pass, pitch, prefer, present, reach, supply, tender, thrust out), подавам на (tip), подавам реплика, подхранвам (aliment, fatten up, fodder, supply), дажба (allowance, ration, serving), порция (help, helping, portion, serving, size, snack), снабдявам (accommodate, arm, cater, find, fit out, fit up, fuel, furnish, issue, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, set up, stock, suit, supply), зоб, нахранвам, гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, blowout, bout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, jamboree, junket, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear, wassail), кърмя (breast-feed, nurse, suckle), фураж (fodder, keep, provender), храна (aliment, board, boarding, chow, chuck, diet, dietary, eating, edibles, fare, fodder, food, fuel, meal, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, rations, scran, sustenance, tack, viands, victuals), хранене (alimentation, feeding, meal, nourishment, nurture, nutrition, sustenance), храня (aliment, bait, cherish, do, entertain, indulge, maintain, nourish, nurse), ядене (eating, meal, meat, provender, repast, scoff), ям (consume, discuss, eat, have, mouth, partake, punish, take, taste, tuck away, victual), подхранващ механизъм. (various references) | |
Catalan | menjar (eat, meal). (various references) | |
Chinese | 饲料 (Fodder, mash), 飼料 (fodder), 料 (grain, material, stuff, to anticipate, to expect, to guess), 哺養 (rear), 哺育 (foster, nurture), 哺 . (various references) | |
Czech | krmit (fodder). (various references) | |
Danish | spise (eat), nære (nourish), fodre (nourish), æde (eat). (various references) | |
Dutch | vreten (eat), gebruiken (drink, eat, employ, make use of, turn to account, use), eten (eat, food, meal, to eat), bikken (chip, chip off, eat). (various references) | |
Esperanto | paŝti, nutri (nourish), manĝigi, manĝi (eat). (various references) | |
Faeroese | føða (be in labour, bear, give birth, give birth to, labour, nourish), seta á beiti, eta (eat). (various references) | |
Farsi | پروردن (Breed, Encourage, Form, Harbor, Mother, Nurture, Propagate, Rear, Train, Womb), چراندن (Grass, Graze, Summer), علوفه (Provender), خوراک دادن (Bait, Nourish), خوراک (Cuisine, Dish, Fare, Grub, Meat, Nourishment, Nutrition, Repast, Tack, Tucker, Viand), خوردن (Abut, Eat, Grub, Have, Hurtle, Partake, Sample, Take). (various references) | |
Finnish | syödä (eat, have one's meals, take), ravita (foster, nourish, satisfy, support). (various references) | |
French | nourrir, manger, alimenter, alimentation (feeding). (various references) | |
Frisian | fiede (nourish), ite (eat, to eat). (various references) | |
German | zuführung (feeding, feed-pipe, sheetfeed, supply, supplying), weiden (browse, graze, grazing, pasturage, pastures, put out to pasture, to browse, willows), speisen (banquet, dine, eat, supply, to supply), nähren (build up, increase, nourish, nurse, nurture, to nourish), fressen (blowout, chow, eat, eat up, fester, food, gobble up, gormandize, grub, guzzle, munch, rankle, scoff, to devour, to eat like a pig, to gorge, to munch, to rankle, to stuff someone with), füttern (feat, line, nosh, to feed), essen (cooking, dine, dinner, eat, eating, food, hall, luncheon, meal, mess, to eat), ernähren (Foster, keep, maintain, nourish, support, to nourish, to support), eingabe (enter, entry, input, intake, petition), beschicken (charge, charging, feeding, filling, to burden, to charge, to fill). (various references) | |
Greek | τροφοδοτώ (cater for, fuel, victual). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | ha (eat). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לזון (maintain, nourish, nurture), לאבוס (fatten, stuff), לכלכל (contain, maintain, manage, nourish, provide for, sustain), להזין (nourish, sustain), להאכיל (nurse), זינה (feeding, supply). (various references) | |
Hungarian | etetés (feeding), eszik (eat, fed, to break bread, to chow, to fare, to feed, to scarf, to stomach, to victual, to vittle). (various references) | |
Icelandic | éta (eat). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyumpal (fill a gap, plug something), memberi makan (nourish). (various references) | |
Irish | cothaigh (nourish), beathaigh (nourish). (various references) | |
Italian | alimentare (alimentary, nourish, plump), mangiare (eat, eat up, food, have, take, take one's meals), alimentazione (alimentation, catering, diet, feeding, firing, supply). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 飼料 (fodder). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フィード , しりょう (careful consideration, data, departed soul, fodder, ghost, historical records, materials, sample, spirit of a dead person, test piece, thought), しみゃく (branch, exhaustedvein, spur, weakening pulse), せっしょく (contact, eating lightly, feeding, touch), えさ (bait). (various references) | |
Korean | 급식. (various references) | |
Malay | makan (eat). (various references) | |
Manx | pastyr (pasture), lhongey (collation, grub, oatmeal, repast, sustenance), foddyr (fodder, forage, provender), fassaghey (browse, graze, pasture), ee (depletion, devour, dispose; consumption, eating, erode, her, it; eat, kill off, she), beiyaghey (fattening), beeaghey (alimentation, maintain, nurture, nutrition, support), bee (be, diet, kernel, nourishment, provisions, will be; food), beaghey (foodstuffs, live, livelihood, maintain, nourish, nourishment, nurture, nutrition, sustenance). (various references) | |
Maya | tzeent (to feed). (various references) | |
Norwegian | spise (eat). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kome (eat), alimentá (nourish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eedfay.(various references) | |
Polish | jeść (eat). (various references) | |
Portuguese | alimentação (board, chargin, eating, fare, food, maintenance, nourishment, subsistence). (various references) | |
Romanian | se hråni, paşte (browse, crop, depasture, grass, graze, nibble), ospãta (banquet, board, feast, grub, regale, treat, welcome), omeni (dine, eat, honor, honour, revere, treat, welcome, wine), nutri (bear, cherish, eat, entertain, Foster, foster hopes, Harbor, harbour, nourish, nurse, nurture), mînca (eat), hranã (board, bread, diet, eatable, eats, esculent, fare, food, keep, meat, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, support, sustenance), hråni (nourish), hrãni (carry, cherish, fill, Foster, grub, Harbor, harbour, nourish, nurture, suckle), alimentaţie (alimentation, diet, dietary, feeding, food, nourishment), alimenta (fill, inflame, nourish, nurture, Stoke, supply, support), întreţine (carry, do, entertain, keep, keep in repair, maintain, provide for, store, support). (various references) | |
Romansch | dar da mangiar (to feed). (various references) | |
Romany | parvaràv (to feed). (various references) | |
Russian | устройство подачи, кормиться, кормить (fed, nourish, nurse), корм (fodder, forage, nutriment, nutrition, provender), накормить, нагнетать (force, pump), подача (admission, delivery, feeding, innings, pitch, supply, transmission, travel), подавать (dish out, dish up, filed, hand in, present, send up, serve, serve upon, serve with, served on, served upon, submit, submits, submitting, supply), пасти (depasture, graze, herd, shepherded, shepherding), питаться, питать;кормить подача, питать (entertain, nourish), питание (aliment, alimentation, aliments, alimony, board, feeding, food, nourishment, nuitrition, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, supply, sustenance). (various references) | |
Scottish | ionaltair (a pasturing, graze, pasture). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zasititi (become full, fill, satiate, saturate), stočna hrana (cotton cake, forage, green-fodder, pasturage, provender, soilage, stover), snabdeti (cater, equip, furnish, gird, heel, provide, purvey, ration, stock, stock up, supply), prehraniti (overfeed, support), napajanje, namiriti (satisfy, settle, supply), nahraniti, jesti (dig in, eat), ishraniti (nourish), hraniti se (board), hraniti (nourish). (various references) | |
Shona | -pa zvokudya (to feed). (various references) | |
Spanish | alimentar (aliment, nourish, nurture), dar de comer (dine), comer (comic, eat, eat away, have dinner, lap up, live off, live on, lunch, luncheon, meal, partake of, take, take a meal, to eat, trifle, tuck, tuck away, tuck in), cebar (bait, cram, prime, Stoke). (various references) | |
Sranan | nyan (eat). (various references) | |
Swedish | mata (grub), matning (feeding), äta (eat, have, have breakfast, have dinner, have lunch, have lunch (or dinner ..), mess, take). (various references) | |
Thai | ให้อาหาร, อาหาร (board, diet, eatable, eating, edible, fare, feeder, food, grub, meal, meals, munch, nosh, nosh-up), กิน (chomp, eat, eat away, grub, has). (various references) | |
Turkish | yemek yemek (eat, grub, have dinner), yemek (chow, crop, dine off, dine on, dinner, dish, eat, food, grub, ingest, meal, Peck, repast, scoff, scran), yedirmek (rub in), otlatmak (grass, grass down, graze, put out to grass, run), otlamak (be out at grass, browse, crop, grass, graze, pasture), geçindirmek (find, keep up, maintain, set up, subsist, support, sustain), doyurmak (fill, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, steep), beslenmek (be fed, live on, take nourishment), beslemek (breed, bring up, cherish, embrace, Foster, Harbor, harbour, nourish, nurse, nurture, raise, suckle), bakmak (answer, attend, behold, care for, concern oneself, consider, consult, deem, do for, face, fend for, find, Foster, front, front on to, give a look, groom, have a frontage on, have a look-see, keep, look, look after, look at, look on, look out, look through, look upon, maintain, make sure, nurse, overlook, put out to nurse, refer, regard, scan, see, see to, set eyes on, sight, sit in, suckle, superintend, supervise, support, survey, take a gander, take a look, take a look at, tend, turn up, view, wait on, wait upon, watch). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ot- iяm, iяmlemek, iяmitl, iяm (animal food), iяdirmek, emdirmek (nurse). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | їжа (aliment, bait, board, chow, chuck, eating, fare, feeding, fodder, food, meat, nosh, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, nutritive, pabulum, potluck, thing, Tommy, viand, victual), харчування (aliment, alimentation, alimony, feeding, food, living, meal, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, sustentation), корм (bait, foodstuff, nurture, nutriment, pabulum), годувати (cater, diet, meal, meat, nourish, nurture, nutrify), забезпечувати (assure, document, ensure, fit out, fix out, furnish, nourish, provide), живити (nourish, nurture, nutrify), постачати (accommodate, administer, administrate, assort, fit up, fix out, furnish, nourish, provide, set up, stock, store, supply), пасовище (grass, lease, outfield, outlet, pasturage). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự cung cấp (supply), sự cho ăn cỏ, sự ăn, băng đạn, bữa chén chất liệu, đồng cỏ suất lúa mạch. (various references) | |
Welsh | ymborthi, porthi, pesgi (fatten), llithio (allure, entice, seduce), bwyda. (various references) | |
Yucatec | hantik (eat), hanal (eat). (various references) | |
Zulu | ukudla (eat, food, meal, nourishment). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | u. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adali, alam, alas, alat, alatur, alebat, alenda, alendis, alere, alerentur, aletur, alimis, alis, alit, aliti, alitur, alta, altam, altas, alti, altis, alto, altos, altum, altus, alui, alvi, ciba, cibabis, cibabit, cibabo, cibabunt, cibasti, cibavit, cibo, depascatur, depascet, depasci, depasti, depastus, depaverunt, nutrire, nutritor, parant, parat, paratis, paris, parit, pascam, pascant, pascantur, pascas, pascat, pascatur, pasce, pascebam, pascebant, pascebantur, pascebat, pascenda, pascendis, pascent, pascentem, pascentes, pascentium, pascentur, pascere, pascerent, pasceret, pasceris, pasces, pascet, pascetur, pascis, pascit, pascite, pascitur, pascunt, pascuntur, pastorum, pastu, pastum, pavere, paverim, pavi, pavimus, pavisti, pavit, subal. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | afedan, fedan. (various references) |
| Old High German | 500-1100 | azzon. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 37, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eporeuqhsan de oi adelfoi autou boskein ta probata tou patroV autwn eiV sucem |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cumque fratres illius in pascendis gregibus patris morarentur in Sychem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And manye yerys ouergoon, diede Sue, the wijf of Jude, the which after weilyng coumfort takun, steiede vp to the sheepherdis of his sheep, he and Yras, the sheepherd of the flok, Odollamyte, in Tampnas. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | His brethren went to kepe their fathers shepe in Sichem |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 37, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang iyang mga igsoon nanagpangadto sa pagpasibsib sa kahayupan sa ilang amahan sa Sichem. |
| Chinese | 約 瑟 的 哥 哥 們 往 示 劍 去 、 放 他 們 父 親 的 羊 。 |
| Croatian | Jednom njegova braæa odu èuvati oèeva stada blizu Šekema. |
| Danish | Da hans Brødre engang var gået hen for at vogte deres Faders Småkvæg ved Sikem, |
| Dutch | En zijn broeders gingen heen, om de kudde van hun vader te weiden bij Sichem. |
| Finnish | Kun hänen veljensä olivat menneet kaitsemaan isänsä lampaita Sikemiin, |
| French | Les frères de Joseph étant allés à Sichem, pour faire paître le troupeau de leur père, |
| German | Da nun seine Brüder hingingen, zu weiden das Vieh ihres Vaters in Sichem, |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Frè Jozèf yo leve, y ale jouk Sichèm ak bann bèt papa yo pou fè yo manje. |
| Hungarian | Mikor pedig az õ bátyjai elmenének Sikhembe, hogy az õ atyjok juhait õrizzék; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada suatu hari ketika abang-abang Yusuf pergi ke Sikhem untuk menggembalakan kawanan kambing domba ayah mereka, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hata, maka pada sekali peristiwa saudara-saudaranyapun pergilah menggembalakan kawan kambing bapanya dekat Sikhem. |
| Italian | I suoi fratelli andarono a pascolare il gregge del loro padre a Sichem. |
| Maori | ¶ Na ka haere ona tuakana ki te whangai i nga hipi a to ratou papa i Hekeme. |
| Norwegian | Engang gikk hans brødre avsted for å gjæte sin fars buskap i Sikem. |
| Portuguese | Ora, foram seus irmãos apascentar o rebanho de seu pai, em Siquém. |
| Rumanian | Frayii lui Iosif se duseserq la Sihem, ca sq pascq oile tatqlui lor. |
| Spanish | Sus hermanos fueron a apacentar las ovejas de su padre cerca de Siquem, |
| Swedish | Då nu en gång hans bröder hade gått bort för att vakta sin faders får i Sikem, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "feed": feedable, feedback, feedbacks, feedbag, feedbags, feedbox, feedboxes, feeder, feeders, feedhole, feedholes, feeding, feedings, feedlot, feedlots, feeds, feedstock, feedstocks, feedstuff, feedstuffs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "feed": overfeed, refeed, underfeed. (additional references) | |
Words containing "feed": biofeedback, biofeedbacks, overfeeding, overfeeds, refeeding, refeeds, underfeeding, underfeeds. (additional references) | |
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"Feed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: affeed, Eed, efad, efed, efeo, effed, faed, faid, fead, feadz, Febem, fedd, fede, feded, Fedel, fedex, Fedi, fedo, fedx, feeb, feec, feede, feedy, feedz, feeg, feei, Feek, feep, feer, feev, feez, feid, Feidr, feld, fepe, feued, feuv, fewd, fewed, fezd, fiad, fied, fleed, fode, foed, fuad, fudee, fued, fyw. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "feed" (pronounced fē"d) |
| 3 | f ē" d | overfeed. |
| 2 | -ē" d | accede, agreed, bead, bleed, Brede, breed, cede, concede, creed, decreed, deed, degreed, disagreed, keyed, knead, kneed, lipide, exceed, freed, greed, guaranteed, heed, impede, indeed, intercede, mead, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, peed, plead, precede, proceed, recede, Reed, reread, reseed, screed, secede, seed, skied, speed, stampede, Steed, succeed, supersede, swede, teed, Tweed, weed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f" | |
-1 letter: dee, fed, fee. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, ef. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f" | |
+1 letter: defer, feeds, feted, feued, freed, refed. | |
+2 letters: beefed, deafen, deafer, deface, defame, defeat, defect, defend, defers, defied, defier, defies, defile, define, deflea, defter, defuse, defuze, feared, feased, feazed, feeder, feezed, felled, felted, fenced, fended, fender, fessed, fetted, feuded, fezzed, fledge, flexed, fleyed, fueled, hefted, kerfed, leafed, redefy, reefed, refeed, reffed, selfed, webfed. | |
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