feed

To feed is defined as to provide food for someone or something, or to take in and eat food or to put more wood on a fire.

(verb)

An example of feed is when you prepare dinner for your family.
An example of feed is when a newborn baby drinks milk from a bottle or when a cow consumes grass.
An example of feed is when you put extra logs on a fire.

Feed is a source of nourishment or food that is provided to animals.

(noun)

An example of feed is bird seed.

See feed in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb fed, feeding

to give food to; provide food for
1. to provide as food: to feed oats to horses
2. to serve as food for
to provide something necessary for the growth, development, or existence of; nourish; sustain: to feed one's anger
to provide (material to be used up, processed, etc.): to feed coal into a stove
to provide with material: feed the stove
to provide satisfaction for; gratify: to feed one's vanity
Sports to pass (the ball, puck, etc.) to (a teammate intending to make a shot, try for a goal, etc.)
Theater to supply (an actor) with (cue lines)

Origin: ME feden < OE fedan < base of foda, food

intransitive verb

noun

1. food given to animals; fodder
2. the amount of fodder given at one time
1. the material fed into a machine
2. the part of the machine supplying this material
3. the supplying of this material
Informal a meal
Radio, TV a transmission by satellite, land lines, etc., as that sent by a network to individual stations for broadcast

See feed in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb Fed fed (fĕd), feed·ing, feeds

verb, transitive

a. To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children.
b. To provide as food or nourishment: fed fish to the cat.
a. To serve as food for: The turkey is large enough to feed a dozen.
b. To produce food for: The valley feeds an entire county.
a. To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer.
b. To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation: Melting snow feeds the reservoirs.
c. To distribute (a local radio or television broadcast) to a larger audience or group of receivers by way of a network or satellite.
a. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid.
b. To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions.
To supply as a cue: feed lines to an actor.
Sports To pass a ball or puck to (a teammate), especially to set up a scoring chance.

verb, intransitive

To eat: pigs feeding at a trough.
To be nourished or supported: an ego that feeds on flattery.
a. To move steadily, as into a machine for processing.
b. To be channeled; flow: This road feeds into the freeway.

noun

a. Food for animals or birds.
b. The amount of such food given at one time.
Informal A meal, especially a large one.
The act of eating.
a. Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace.
b. The act of supplying such material.
a. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.
b. The aperture through which such material enters a machine.
a. 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.
b. A program or signal so transmitted or conveyed.
Sports A pass of a ball or puck, especially to set up a scoring chance.