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.

I'm going to feed the chickens.

How was she going to feed a baby?

I hope we can feed on animals.

Let's go to the park and feed the ducks.

We already produce more than enough food to feed the planet.

You tried to feed on her?

You don't strike me as the type to feed ducks.

You'll feed them and everything?

Even at the retail price, we could feed all the world's hungry for a billion dollars a day or $365 billion a year.

The entire business of the psychic tipster has faded rapidly without new news to feed the sharks.

You could walk around without your mask and feed whenever you were hungry.

You should never feed a human a rock, even by mistake.

Why haven't you asked to feed on me?

She brought him humans to feed off of and – in the lean years where they'd been struggling to survive – she let him drink from her.

Until she recovered, he was content to feed her.

Mama bird will be back to feed them.

According to Hinds they feed chiefly on the green tissues, which " are punctured by the piercing mouth-parts and the sap withdrawn by suction.

It read, 'Croft's Feed, Alder's Bridge, West Virginia!

Do not feed on your own until your lust is controlled.

Alex had the shed built so that she could feed the buffalo without going into the pen, but today she wanted to check on the cow.

Among the advantages of enclosures, he observes, " you will gain much more labour from your servants, a great part of whose time was taken up in gathering thistles and other garbage for their horses to feed upon in their stables; and thereby the great trampling and pulling up and other destruction of the corns while they are yet tender will be prevented."

They'll feed her with a bottle.

The footless larvae are elongate, worm-like and very active; they feed upon almost any kind of waste animal matter, and when full-grown form a silken cocoon.

Nor are there any snowfields to feed rivers, as in the other continents.

Ten acres (he adds) sown with clover, turnips, &c., will feed as many sheep as one hundred acres thereof would before have done."

I was warned about drug addicts ripping jewelry off people, snatching handbags and so on as they seek money to feed their habits.

They had also acquired control of the lion's share of the vital splint coal and blackband ore needed to feed these furnaces.

Do n't forget to take some peanuts to feed the gray squirrels that live in the grounds.

Each small group could feed back to the whole, stimulating discussion.

He gets really stroppy if you do n't feed him.

Suckling lambs with orf lesions may be disinclined to suck and ewes with sore teats may not let their lambs feed.

He had entered the field to feed a calf, which was not suckling.

The feed is created by ticking checkboxes in a list.

Honey forms the staple nourishment of many ants, some of the workers seeking nectar from flowers, working it up into honey within their stomachs and regurgitating it so as to feed their comrades within the nest, who, in their turn, pass it on to the grubs.

Larval " weevils " mostly feed on the roots of plants, but some, such as the nut weevil (Balaninus nucum), live as larvae inside fruit.

Grosvenor these nematocysts are derived from the hydroids on which the animals feed.

In most insects that feed by suction the mandibles are modified.

In some cicads the mature nymph ceases to feed and remains quiescent within a pillar-shaped earthen chamber.

One genus of Thomisidae (Phognarachne), which inhabits the Oriental region, adopts the clever device of spinning on the surface of a leaf a sheet of web resembling the fluid portions of a splash of bird's dung, the more solid central portions being represented by the spider itself, which waits in the middle of the patch to seize the butterflies or other insects that habitually feed on birds' excrement and are attracted to the patch mistaking it for their natural food.

No doubt large numbers are devoured by insectivorous birds, mammals and reptiles, but the mortality due to them and other foes sinks into insignificance beside that caused by the persecution of hymenopterous insects of the families Ichneumonidae and Pompilidae, especially of the latter, many species of which systematically ransack the country for spiders wherewith to feed their young in the breeding season.

In contrast with the farmers of the 'sixties, the southern planter of the 10th century appreciates the value of his cotton seed, and farmers, too remote from the mills to get it pressed, now feed to their stock all the cotton seed they conveniently can, and use the residue either in compost or directly as manure.

The precarious empire which had been founded in 1204 drained away all the vigorous adventurers of the West for its support for many years to come, and the Holy Land was starved to feed a land less holy, but equally greedy of men.'

Mole-rats are easily recognized by the peculiarly flattened head, in which the minute eyes are covered with skin, the wart-like ears, and rudimentary tail; they make burrows in sandy soil, and feed on bulbs and roots.

Douroucoulis live in parties, and are purely nocturnal, sleeping during the day in hollow trees, and coming out at night to feed on insects and fruits, when they utter piercing cat-like screams.

They feed chiefly on grass, but also on moss, lichens and tender shoots of the willow and pine.

The outbreak of the campaign was hastened by the desire of the Austrian government to feed their own army and leave a bare country for Napoleon by securing the resources of Bavaria.

It is probable that some are carnivorous, either attacking other larvae or subsisting on more minute forms of animal life; but others perhaps feed more exclusively on vegetable matters of a low type, such as diatoms.

All Arachnida, including Limulus, feed by suctorial action in essentially the same way as Scorpio.

Arctic foxes feed largely on sea-birds and lemmings, laying up hidden stores of the last-named rodents for winter use.

Its manufactures include flour, ground feed, other cereal preparations, hardware specialties, canned vegetables (especially Indian corn), and planing-mill products.