0 to give food to a person, group, or animal:
I usually feed the neighbour's cat while she's away.
[ + two objects ] Do you feed your chickens corn?
If you feed your dog on biscuits, it's not surprising he's so fat.
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.
If agriculture was more of a priority, the country would easily be able to feed itself.
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.
3 the part of a machine through which it is supplied with fuel or with something else that it needs:
4 a web page, screen, etc. that updates (= changes) often to show the latest information:
5 to give food to a person or animal, or of an animal to eat:
6 to supply something, esp. regularly or continuously:
7 food for animals, esp. animals that are not kept as pets:
chicken feed
9 to eat something:
10 to supply something to a person or thing, or put something into a machine or system, especially in a regular or continuous way:
12 the part of a machine through which it is supplied with fuel or with something else that it needs:
13 an RSS feed :
The horse rasped my hand with his tongue as I fed him the apple.
It's a good idea to visit the zoo when they're feeding the animals.
They follow indigenous rice agronomy, ignoring the use of fertilizers, pesticides and even supplementary feed for the fish reared in the system.
The public expenditure on blood tests in affluent countries, for instance, could feed entire regions in developing countries.
These figures show that the diameter is likewise insensitive to the unsteady feed-in radius (0, t): a 5% input variation yields around a 1% response.
中文繁体
給予食物, 給(人、團體或動物)提供食物, 餵養…
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给予食物, 给(人、团体或动物)提供食物, 喂养…
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dar de comer a, alimentar, proporcionar…
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alimentar…
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(動物、人など)に食べ物を与える…
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beslemek, yedirmek, karnını doyurmak…
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(se) nourrir, fournir, aliments [masculine…
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donar menjar a, alimentar…
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