0 to give food to a person, group, or animal: --
If agriculture was more of a priority, the country would easily be able to feed itself.
Most babies can feed themselves by the time they're a year old.
The baby only feeds once a night at the moment, thank goodness.
If you feed your dog on biscuits, it's not surprising he's so fat.
[ + two objects ] Do you feed your chickens corn?
I usually feed the neighbour's cat while she's away.
1 to supply something to a person or thing, or put something into a machine or system, especially in a regular or continuous way: --
Remember to feed the fire while I'm out.
Several small streams feed into (= join) the river near here.
[ + two objects ] A member of staff had been feeding the newspaper information/feeding information to the newspaper.
The images are fed over satellite networks to broadcasters throughout the world.
The vegetables are fed into the machine at this end.
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: --
As in previous work, the multivariate morphometric approach separated the aphids from peach from those feeding on tobacco.
The third theme explores whether transgenic crops are necessary for the production of wildlife habitat and wilderness, and to feed the world's population.
Differences between quality components at harvest and feeding for the other forages were less, and differences among quality components were less consistent.
I have people that help with preparing my meals, but nobody feeds me.
The identification of alternative feed resources and strategic feeding management might be options for development.
The presumed changes in yields from the agronomic model are fed into an economic model, which determines crop choice, production, and market prices.
The distribution of feeding habits in a tropical rain forest.
How many species of host-specific insects feed on a species of tropical tree?