feed
pronunciation
How to pronounce feed in British English:
UK [fiːd]
How to pronounce feed in American English:
US [ fiːd]
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- Noun:
- food for domestic livestock
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- Verb:
- provide as food
- give food to
- feed into; supply
- introduce continuously
- support or promote
- take in food; used of animals only
- serve as food for; be the food for
- move along, of liquids
- profit from in an exploitatory manner
- gratify
- provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
Word Origin
- feed
- feed: [OE] Feed was formed from the noun food in prehistoric Germanic times. It comes via Old English fēdan from Germanic *fōthjan, a derivative of *fōthon, the noun from which modern English food is descended. Its use as a noun, for ‘food, fodder’, dates from the 16th century.=> food
- feed (v.)
- Old English fedan "nourish, give food to, sustain, foster" (transitive), from Proto-Germanic *fodjan (cognates: Old Saxon fodjan, Old Frisian feda, Dutch voeden, Old High German fuotan, Old Norse foeða, Gothic fodjan "to feed"), from PIE root *pa- "to protect, feed" (see food). Intransitive sense "take food, eat" is from late 14c. Meaning "to supply to as food" is from 1818.
- feed (n.)
- "action of feeding," 1570s, from feed (v.). Meaning "food for animals" is first attested 1580s. Meaning "a sumptuous meal" is from 1808. Of machinery, "action of or system for providing raw material" from 1892.
Example
- 1. The waste can be sold as animal feed .
- 2. Meat producers feel pressure when feed prices surge .
- 3. Both are used in food production and for animal feed .
- 4. Cattle were tested , but their feed and meat were not .
- 5. So feed them as much as you can .