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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan (“to feed”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with West Frisian fiede (“to nourish, feed”), Dutch voeden (“to feed”), Danish føde (“to bring forth, feed”), Swedish föda (“to bring forth, feed”), Icelandic fæða (“to feed”), and more distantly with Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb) through Indo-European. More at food, fodder.
Verb
feed (third-person singular simple present feeds, present participle feeding, simple past and past participle fed)
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
Feed the dog every evening.
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. , volume I, London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):“The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty’s revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insupportable; that the secretary’s expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the common practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat;[...]
1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , →OCLC:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 89:While feeding, the basking shark swims at about two knots per hour, and this enables it to eat and breathe in the same motion.
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
Feed the fish to the dolphins.
- 2012 December 25 (airdate), Steven Moffat, The Snowmen (Doctor Who)
- DR SIMEON: I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to.
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.
- (figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, , London: Adam Islip, →OCLC:feeding him with the hope of liberty
- To supply with something.
Springs feed ponds with water.
- To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. , 2nd edition, London: J H for H Mortlock , and J Robinson , published 1708, →OCLC:Once in three years, or every other year, feed your mowing-lands.
- (sports, transitive) To pass to.
2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1-3 Blackburn”, in BBC:Morrison then played a pivotal role in West Brom's equaliser, powering through the middle and feeding Tchoyi, whose low, teasing right-wing cross was poked in by Thomas at the far post
- (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
Nasalization feeds raising.
- (syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
1983, Arnold M. Zwicky, Geoffrey K. Pullum, “Cliticization vs. Inflection: English N'T”, in Language, volume 59, number 3, →JSTOR, page 506:This orthodox analysis […] leads to the conclusion that […] Subject–Auxiliary Inversion (SAI) is fed by the contraction operation.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to give food to eat
- Albanian: ushqen
- Arabic: أَطْعَمَ (ʔaṭʕama), غَذَّى (ḡaḏḏā)
- Armenian: կերակրել (hy) (kerakrel), կերցնել (hy) (kercʻnel)
- Assamese: খুৱা (khua)
- Asturian: alimentar (ast), fornir
- Azerbaijani: bəsləmək (az), yedizdirmək, yemləmək (animals)
- Basque: elikatu
- Belarusian: кармі́ць impf (karmícʹ), харчава́ць impf (xarčavácʹ)
- Breton: beva, maga
- Bulgarian: храня́ (bg) (hranjá)
- Catalan: alimentar (ca), donar a menjar
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 餵/喂 (zh) (wèi), 哺育 (zh) (bǔyù)
- Cornish: boosa, maga
- Czech: krmit (cs) impf
- Danish: fodre (da)
- Dutch: voeden (nl), voeren (nl)
- Esperanto: manĝigi
- Even: ули- (uli-)
- Evenki: ули- (uli-)
- Finnish: syöttää (fi), ruokkia (fi)
- French: nourrir (fr), alimenter (fr), donner à manger
- Friulian: nudrî
- Galician: alimentar (gl), dar de comer
- Georgian: კვება (ḳveba)
- German: ernähren (de); (with babies, animals, etc.) füttern (de)
- Greek: ταΐζω (el) (taḯzo)
- Ancient: βόσκω (bóskō), τρέφω (tréphō), φέρβω (phérbō) (Epic)
- Haitian Creole: ba(y\n)...mange, nouri
- Hindi: खिलाना (hi) (khilānā)
- Hungarian: etet (hu), megetet (hu), táplál (hu)
- Icelandic: fóðra (is), fæða (is)
- Indonesian: memberi makan
- Irish: beathaigh, biathaigh
- Italian: nutrire (it), alimentare (it), fare mangiare
- Japanese: 食べさせる (たべさせる, tabesaseru), 飼う (ja) (かう, kau), 食べ物を与える (たべものをあたえる, tabemono o ataeru)
- Kazakh: тамақтандыру (tamaqtandyru)
- Khmer: ចិញ្ចឹម (km) (cəñcəm)
- Korean: 먹이다 (ko) (meogida)
- Laboya: horona
- Lao: ເກືອ (lo) (kư̄a)
- Latin: alō (la), pascō, nutriō, cibō (la)
- Low German:
- German Low German: föden
- Lü: ᦀᦾᧈ (˙ʼoay¹)
- Luxembourgish: fidderen
- Macedonian: хра́ни impf (hráni)
- Malagasy: mamelona (mg)
- Maore Comorian: ulisa
- Marathi: भरवणे (bharavṇe)
- Mbyá Guaraní: mongaru
- Middle English: feden
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Nanai: ули- (uli-)
- Neapolitan: pasce
- Nepali: खुवाउनु (ne) (khuwāunu)
- Norwegian: mate (no)
- Bokmål: fôre (no), mate (no), fø, føde (no)
- Occitan: alimentar (oc)
- Old Church Slavonic: кръмити (krŭmiti)
- Pela: ta̠³⁵
- Persian: غذا دادن (fa) (ğazâ dâdan)
- Piedmontese: nurì
- Polish: karmić (pl) impf, nakarmić (pl) pf, żywić (pl) impf
- Portuguese: alimentar (pt)
- Quechua: qaray, mikhuchiy
- Romanian: hrăni (ro)
- Russian: корми́ть (ru) impf (kormítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: хранити impf, hraniti (sh) impf
- Skolt Sami: poorted
- Slovak: kŕmiť impf
- Slovene: hraniti (sl) impf
- Spanish: alimentar (es), dar de comer
- Swedish: mata (sv), nära (sv), föda (sv), utfodra (sv) (domestic animals)
- Tagalog: pakainin
- Tamil: ஊட்டு (ta) (ūṭṭu)
- Telugu: తినిపించు (te) (tinipiñcu)
- Thai: ขุน (th) (kǔn), หล่อเลี้ยง (th) (lòr líang)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: beslemek (tr)
- Ukrainian: годува́ти impf (hoduváty), харчува́ти impf (xarčuváty), корми́ти impf (kormýty)
- Urdu: کھلانا (khilānā)
- Venetian: norir (vec)
- Vietnamese: cho ăn
- Welsh: bwydo (cy)
- Zulu: -ondla
- ǃXóõ: ʻâã
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to give to a machine for processing
Etymology 2
From Middle English fede, fed, from the verb (see above).
Noun
feed (countable and uncountable, plural feeds)
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
- Coordinate term: fodder
They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- Something supplied continuously.
a satellite feed
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- Coordinate terms: feeder, feedbin, hopper
- Hyponyms: barfeed, barfeeder
the paper feed of a printer
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- Coordinate terms: speed, speeds and feeds
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- 184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
- One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited;
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 257:"There won't be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so; there won't be any Royal Academy of Arts, and no nice little feeds at restaurants."
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- Synonym: feast
They held a crab feed on the beach.
- (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.
2016 March 15, Mike Isaac, “Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and you will see the latest news at the top. The further back you scroll, the older the material gets.
2020 November 24, Charlie Warzel, “What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:Despite spending years studying these toxic dynamics and the better part of a month watching them up close in strangers’ feeds, I was still, like so many, surprised to see it all reflected at the ballot box. We shouldn’t have been surprised; our divisions have been in front of our faces and inside our feeds this whole time.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
2020, Oliver Double, Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up, page 38:Don Ward is often described as a former comic, having some experience in this area as a young man, acting as a feed for the comic actor David Lodge at Parkins Holiday Camp in Jersey […]
Derived terms
Internet: Encapsulated online content
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun feed
Translations
food given to (especially herbivorous) animals
- Azerbaijani: yem (az)
- Bulgarian: зоб m (zob), паша (bg) f (paša)
- Catalan: pinso (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 飼料/饲料 (zi6 liu6-2)
- Mandarin: 飼料/饲料 (zh) (sìliào)
- Czech: krmivo (cs) n
- Danish: foder (da) n
- Dutch: voer (nl) n, voeder (nl) n
- Finnish: rehu (fi)
- French: alimentation (fr) f, nourriture (fr) f
- Galician: penso m, empallada f, mastullada f
- German: Futter (de) n
- Hungarian: eleség (hu), táp (hu), abrak (hu), takarmány (hu), táplálék (hu)
- Japanese: 飼料 (ja) (shiryō)
- Korean: 먹이 (ko) (meogi), 사료(飼料) (ko) (saryo), 모이 (moi) (birds)
- Malayalam: തീറ്റ (ml) (tīṟṟa)
- Polish: pasza (pl) f
- Portuguese: ração (pt) f, trato (pt) m
- Romanian: strânsură (ro), nutreț (ro)
- Russian: корм (ru) m (korm), фура́ж (ru) m (furáž), пи́ща (ru) f (píšča), еда́ (ru) f (jedá), пита́ние (ru) n (pitánije)
- Slovak: krmivo (sk) n, krm m
- Spanish: pienso (es) m
- Swedish: foder (sv) n
- Turkish: yem (tr)
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something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed
a gathering to eat, especially in quantity
encapsulated online content
- Azerbaijani: lent (az), lenta, axış
- Bashkir: таҫма (taśma)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 消息來源/消息来源 (zh) (xiāoxi láiyuán)
- Czech: zdroj (cs) m
- Dutch: feed (nl) m
- Esperanto: abonfluo
- Finnish: syöte (fi)
- Georgian: არხი (ka) (arxi), ფიდი (pidi) (colloquial)
- German: Feed (de) m
- Hungarian: hírfolyam, hírcsatorna (hu), feed (hu)
- Indonesian: pasokan (id), umpan (id)
- Italian: feed (it) m
- Japanese: フィード (fīdo)
- Korean: 피드 (pideu)
- Malay: suapan
- Norwegian: mating m
- Polish: kanał (pl) m, aktualności f pl
- Portuguese: feed (pt) m
- Russian: новостна́я ле́нта f (novostnája lénta), ле́нта новосте́й f (lénta novostéj), фид (ru) m (fid) (colloquial)
- Serbo-Croatian: sažetak sadržaja m, kanal (sh) m, izvor (sh) m
- Spanish: feed (es) m
- Swahili: mlisho
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Etymology 3
From fee + -ed.
Verb
feed
- simple past and past participle of fee
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From English feed.
Noun
feed m (plural feeds)
- encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to; a feed
- a mechanism on social media for users to receive updates from their network
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish fichet (compare Scottish Gaelic fichead), genitive singular of fiche (“twenty”), from Proto-Celtic *wikantī (compare Welsh ugain), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t (compare Latin vīgintī), from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”).
Pronunciation
Numeral
feed
- twenty
References
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English feed.
Pronunciation
Noun
feed m (plural feeds)
- (Internet) feed (encapsulated online content that one can subscribe to)
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English feed.
Pronunciation
Noun
feed m (plural feeds)
- (Internet) feed (encapsulated online content that one can subscribe to)
2019 March 13, Leslie Santana, “Primero Facebook, y ahora cae Instagram”, in El Universal (Mexico):De acuerdo con downdetector.com un 49% de los usuarios de la red, no puede actualizar su feed, el 31% no logra entrar a Instagram y el 18% no puede verlo desde su computadora.- According to downdetector.com, 49% of the network's users can't update their feed, 31% can't enter Instagram and 18% can't see it on their computer.
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.