feed

Meaning

1. To give (someone or something) food to eat.
2. To eat (usually of animals).
3. To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
4. To give to a machine to be processed.
5. To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
6. To supply with something.
7. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
8. To pass to.
9. To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
10. To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.

nourish

eat

provide for

feed in

provide with food

give food

give food to

cash in on

cater for

give a present

prepare food

serve food

document loading

give a feast

give someone a treat

provide nourishment

take food

feed material

cause to eat

take nourishment

raw stuff

rough material

advance of tool

load-on

make eat

feed liquid

crude material

input material

feed charge

penetration of the tool

charge-in

wire feed

fatten out

grow fat

keep alive

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfiːd/

From Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan (“to feed”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with West Frisian fiede (“to nourish, feed”), Dutch voeden (“to feed”), Danish føde (“to bring forth, feed”), Swedish föda (“to bring forth, feed”), Icelandic fæða (“to feed”), and more distantly with Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb) through Indo-European. More at food, fodder.

Cognate with Western Frisian

fiede

Cognate with Dutch

voeden

New

fee

1. An amount charged for a privilege.
2. An amount charged for professional services.
3. An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.
4. An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail).
5. A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service.
6. Synonym of fief: the land so held.
7. An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service.
8. (obsolete) Synonym of possession.
9. (obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
10. (obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.

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