Betekenis van feed In het Nederlands

• 0 to give food to a person, group, or animal:

  • I usually feed the neighbour's cat while she's away.

  • Let's feed the kids first and have our dinner after.

  • [ + two objects ] Do you feed your chickens corn?

  • If you feed your dog on biscuits, it's not surprising he's so fat.

  • The kids love feeding bread to the ducks.

  • The baby only feeds once a night at the moment, thank goodness.

  • Most babies can feed themselves by the time they're a year old.

  • This amount of pasta won't feed ten people.

  • If agriculture was more of a priority, the country would easily be able to feed itself.

  • Feed the world/starving.

  • Don't forget to feed the tomatoes.

• 1 to supply something to a person or thing, or put something into a machine or system, especially in a regular or continuous way:

  • The vegetables are fed into the machine at this end.

  • The images are fed over satellite networks to broadcasters throughout the world.

  • [ + two objects ] A member of staff had been feeding the newspaper information/feeding information to the newspaper.

  • Several small streams feed into (= join) the river near here.

  • Remember to feed the fire while I'm out.

• 2 an occasion when a baby has something to eat or drink:

  • The baby had a feed an hour ago, so she can't be hungry.

  • cattle/animal feed

• 3 the part of a machine through which it is supplied with fuel or with something else that it needs:

  • the car's oil feed

  • the printer's paper feed

• 4 a web page, screen, etc. that updates (= changes) often to show the latest information:

  • Your Twitter feed refreshes automatically to show new tweets.

  • A live video feed enables the "driver" to operate the vehicle remotely.

• 5 to give food to a person or animal, or of an animal to eat:

  • [ T ] We fed the kids some leftovers.

  • [ I ] The cows were feeding in the pasture.

• 6 to supply something, esp. regularly or continuously:

  • We had to keep feeding quarters into the parking meter.

  • They fed him a line about how important this work is to our country.

• 7 food for animals, esp. animals that are not kept as pets:

  • chicken feed

• 8 to give food to a person, group, or animal:

  • These microwave meals feed two people.

  • If agriculture were given priority, the country would soon be able to feed itself.

• 9 to eat something:

  • feed on sth The beef cattle feed on grass and soya meal.

• 10 to supply something to a person or thing, or put something into a machine or system, especially in a regular or continuous way:

  • Air is carried through a series of pipes to feed the furnace.

  • feed sth to sb/sth The new system feeds daily updates to sales teams.

  • feed sth into sth The data is fed into a computer and analysed.

  • feed into sth A rise in oil prices will feed into the economy and cause general inflation.

• 11 food eaten by farm animals:

  • The potato waste is used for cattle feed.

• 12 the part of a machine through which it is supplied with fuel or with something else that it needs:

  • The printer has three paper feeds.

  • the car's oil feed

• 13 an RSS feed :

  • If you have a website, blog, audio/video content, or even photos, you can offer a feed of your content as an option.