feedverb詞源 1/fiːd/

• 1

  To give (someone or something) food to eat.

  • Feed the dog every evening.
  • If thine enemy hunger, feed him.
• 2

  To eat (usually of animals).

  • Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
  • “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;[...]
• 3

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

  • Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby.
  • Feed the fish to the dolphins.
• 4

  To give to a machine to be processed.

  • Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
• 5

  To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.

  • We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.
• 6

  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.
  • feeding him with the hope of liberty
• 7

  To supply with something.

  • Springs feed ponds with water.
  • The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed
• 8

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

  • If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
  • Once in three years, or every other year, feed your mowing-lands.

feednoun詞源 2/fiːd/

• 1

  Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.

  • They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
• 2

  Something supplied continuously.

  • a satellite feed
• 3

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

  • the paper feed of a printer
• 4

  communicationsjournalismliteratureThe part of a fountain pen that supplies ink to the nib.

• 5

  The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.

• 6

  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; […]
  • "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."
• 7

  A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.

  • They held a crab feed on the beach.
• 8

  online content presented sequentially:

  • 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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