Food vs. Feed

Material, especially carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, that an organism uses for energy, growth, and maintaining the processes of life. Plants, algae, and some bacteria make their own food through photosynthesis, while animals and most other organisms obtain food by consuming other organisms or organic matter.

To give food to; supply with nourishment

A specified kind of nourishment

To provide as food or nourishment

Nourishment eaten in solid form

To serve as food for

Something that nourishes or sustains in a way suggestive of physical nourishment

To produce food for

(uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation

(countable) A foodstuff.

To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation

Anything that nourishes or sustains.

To transmit (media content) by means of a communications network or satellite, as for processing or distribution.

What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.

To minister to; gratify

Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.

To support or promote; encourage

To supply with food.

To supply as a cue

Any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue

(Sports) To pass a ball or puck to (a teammate), especially to set up a scoring chance.

Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment;

To eat. Used of animals

Anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

To be nourished or supported

To move steadily, as into a machine for processing.

To be channeled; flow

Food for animals, especially livestock.

The amount of such food given at one time.

(Informal) A meal, especially a large one

The act of providing food, especially to an animal

Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace.

The act of supplying such material.

An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.

The aperture through which such material enters a machine.

The transmission or conveyance of published content, as by satellite, on the internet, or by broadcast over a network of stations.

A signal or program made by means of such transmission

(Sports) A pass of a ball or puck, especially to set up a scoring chance.

(transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

(intransitive) To eat usually of animals.

(ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.

(transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.

(figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).

To supply with something.

To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.

To pass to.

To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.

To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.

Simple past tense and past participle of fee

(uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.

Something supplied continuously.

The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.

The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.

A meal.

(countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.

(Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.

A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.

To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.

To satisfy; gratify 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 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.

Food for domestic livestock

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;