Feed

English Meaning

To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.

1. To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children.
2. To provide as food or nourishment: fed fish to the cat.
3. To serve as food for: The turkey is large enough to feed a dozen.
4. To produce food for: The valley feeds an entire county.
5. To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer.
6. To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation: Melting snow feeds the reservoirs.
7. To distribute (a local radio or television broadcast) to a larger audience or group of receivers by way of a network or satellite.
8. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid.
9. To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions.
10. To supply as a cue: feed lines to an actor.
11. Sports To pass a ball or puck to (a teammate), especially to set up a scoring chance.
12. To eat: pigs feeding at a trough.
13. To be nourished or supported: an ego that feeds on flattery.
14. To move steadily, as into a machine for processing.
15. To be channeled; flow: This road feeds into the freeway.
16. Food for animals or birds.
17. The amount of such food given at one time.
18. Informal A meal, especially a large one.
19. The act of eating.
20. Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace.
21. The act of supplying such material.
22. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.
23. The aperture through which such material enters a machine.
24. The transmission or conveyance of a local radio or television program, as by satellite, on the Internet, or by broadcast over a network of stations.
25. A program or signal so transmitted or conveyed.
26. Sports A pass of a ball or puck, especially to set up a scoring chance.
27. off (one's) feed Suffering a lack of appetite; sick: The dog is off its feed this week.