English Dictionary

feed

/ˈfiːd/

verb

(ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat. / (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals). / (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.

I feed my dog every morning.

意味（1）

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

Feed the dog every evening.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).

Spiders feed on gnats and flies.

意味（3）

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

Feed the fish to the dolphins.

意味（4）

(transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.

Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.

意味（5）

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

If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

意味（6）

To supply with something.

Springs feed ponds with water.

意味（7）

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

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

意味（8）

(sports, transitive) To pass to.

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

意味（9）

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

Nasalization feeds raising.

意味（10）

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

This orthodox analysis […] leads to the conclusion that […] Subject–Auxiliary Inversion (SAI) is fed by the contraction operation.