Definitions
1.verb(ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat."Feed the dog every evening."
2.verbTo eat (usually of animals)."Spiders feed on gnats and flies."
3.verbTo give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food."Feed the fish to the dolphins."
4.verbTo give to a machine to be processed."Feed the paper gently into the document shredder."
5.verbTo satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
6.verbTo supply with something."Springs feed ponds with water."
7.verbTo graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle."If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep."
8.verbTo pass to.
9.verb(of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule."Nasalization feeds raising."
10.verb(of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
11.nounAn instance of giving food.
12.nounAn instance of eating (usually said of animals).
13.nounThat which is eaten; food.
14.nounThat which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pastureland.
15.nounThe loading of material into a machine that will process it.