📖 Определения и значения для слова feed
📒 to give food to a person or an animal
- feed somebody/something/yourself Have you fed the cat yet?
- The baby can't feed itself yet (= can't put food into its own mouth).
- feed somebody/something sth It's important to feed children a well-balanced diet.
📒 to eat food
- Slugs and snails feed at night.
- Egrets and a solitary grey heron were busily feeding.
- The bears feed voraciously in summer and store energy as fat.
📒 to provide food for a person or group of people
- They have a large family to feed.
- There's enough here to feed an army.
- Have they been feeding you well?
📒 to give a plant a special substance to make it grow
- Feed the plants once a week.
📒 to give advice, information, etc. to somebody/something
- be fed something We are constantly fed gossip and speculation by the media.
- be fed with something The media were being fed with accusations and lies.
- be fed to somebody Gossip and speculation are constantly fed to us by the media.
📒 to supply something to somebody/something
- be fed (by something) The lake is fed by a river.
- A is fed with B The electricity line is fed with power through an underground cable.
- B is fed into A Power is fed into the electricity line through an underground cable.
📒 to put or push something into or through a machine
- feed A (with B) He fed the meter with coins.
- feed B into A He fed coins into the meter.
- The information was fed into the data store.
📒 to satisfy a need, desire, etc. and keep it strong
- For drug addicts, the need to feed the addiction takes priority over everything else.
📒 to harm somebody who has helped you or supported you
📒 to eat a lot of food or too much food