Word Finder - feed

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Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.

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They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.

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Something supplied continuously.

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a satellite feed

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The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.

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the paper feed of a printer

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The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.

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A meal.

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A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.

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They held a crab feed on the beach.

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Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.

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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.

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(ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

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Feed the dog every evening.

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To eat (usually of animals).

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Spiders feed on gnats and flies.

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To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.

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Feed the fish to the dolphins.

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To give to a machine to be processed.

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Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.

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To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).

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To supply with something.

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Springs feed ponds with water.

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To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.

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If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.

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To pass to.

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(of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.

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Nasalization feeds raising.

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(of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.