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Definition of Feed

Feed of Fee To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire. To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal. To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler. To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press. To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work). To take food; to eat. To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon. To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food. To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze. That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep. A grazing or pasture ground. An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats. A meal, or the act of eating. The water supplied to steam boilers. The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work. The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones. The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion. Related Definitions: Act, Action, Allowance, Along, An, And, Any, Appetite, As, Autumn, Be, Best, Boiler, By, Carrying, Cattle, Cause, Cloth, Coal, Consumption, Corn, Cow, Cows, Cropped, Cutting, Desire, Develop, Eat, Eaten, Eating, Especially, Fee, Feed, Feeding, Fill, Fodder, Food, For, Forward, Foster, Furnace, Furnish, General, Give, Given, Grain, Graze, Grazing, Ground, Guard, Hay, Herbage, Hopper, Horse, If, In, Is, It, Lathe, Machine, Material, Meal, Mechanism, Metal, Mill, Minister, Motion, Moving, Needle, Nourish, Nourished, Nourishment, Oats, Object, Of, On, One, Operated, Operation, Or, Out, Paper, Pasture, Physical, Place, Press, Prey, Printing, Produce, Produced, Producing, Progressive, Provender, Run, Satisfied, Satisfy, Self, Sense, Sewing, Sheep, So, Something, Steam, Strengthen, Strengthened, Stuff, Subject, Supplied, Supply, Take, Talent, Taste, That, The, To, Too, Tool, Turning, Upon, Used, Wasted, Water, Which, Whole, With, Wood, Work, Working

Feed Quotations Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Lao Tzu I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children. Mike Tyson If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. Samuel Johnson It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money. Merle Haggard

Feed Translations feed in Afrikaans is eet feed in Dutch is eten, bikken, gebruiken, vreten feed in French is nourrir, alimentent, alimentez, alimentons, manger feed in Italian is mangiare, foderare, allattamento, alimentare feed in Spanish is alimentar, nutrir, comer, cebar feed in Swedish is mata

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