Dictionary entry details
• FEED (noun)
Meaning:
Food for domestic livestock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
feed; provender
Hypernyms ("feed" is a kind of...):
food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feed"):
blood meal (the dried and powdered blood of animals)
fish meal (ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock)
mast (nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine)
pet food; pet-food; petfood (food prepared for animal pets)
bird feed; bird food; birdseed (food given to birds; usually mixed seeds)
cud; rechewed food (food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again)
mash (mixture of ground animal feeds)
pigswill; pigwash; slop; slops; swill (wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk)
oil cake (mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock)
ensilage; silage (fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo)
eatage; forage; grass; pasturage; pasture (animal food for browsing or grazing)
feed grain (grain grown for cattle feed)
fodder (coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop)
creep feed (feed given to young animals isolated in a creep)
cattle cake (a concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes)
corn gluten feed (a feed consisting primarily of corn gluten)
• FEED (verb)
Meaning:
Provide as food
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Context example:
Feed the guests the nuts
Hypernyms (to "feed" is one way to...):
cater; ply; provide; supply (provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sentence example:
They feed the animals
Meaning:
Give food to
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
feed; give
Context examples:
Feed the starving children in India / don't give the child this tough meat
Hypernyms (to "feed" is one way to...):
cater; ply; provide; supply (provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)
Cause:
eat (take in solid food)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "feed"):
lunch (provide a midday meal for)
breakfast (provide breakfast for)
bottle-feed; breastfeed; give suck; lactate; nurse; suck; suckle; wet-nurse (give suck to)
bottlefeed (feed (infants) with a bottle)
inject (feed intravenously)
aliment; nourish; nutrify (give nourishment to)
range (let eat)
crop; graze; pasture (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)
force-feed (feed someone who will not or cannot eat)
spoonfeed (feed with a spoon)
dine (give dinner to; host for dinner)
scavenge (feed on carrion or refuse)
fodder (give fodder (to domesticated animals))
slop; swill (feed pigs)
regurgitate (feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food)
corn (feed (cattle) with corn)
malnourish; undernourish (provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment)
overfeed (feed excessively)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence examples:
They feed the food to the people
They feed the people the food
Antonym:
starve (deprive of food)
Meaning:
Feed into; supply
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Context example:
Her success feeds her vanity
Hypernyms (to "feed" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (provide or furnish with)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Introduce continuously
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
feed in; feed
Context example:
feed carrots into a food processor
Hypernyms (to "feed" is one way to...):
enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (introduce)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something
Meaning:
Support or promote
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
His admiration fed her vanity
Hypernyms (to "feed" is one way to...):
advance; boost; encourage; further; promote (contribute to the progress or growth of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Take in food; used of animals only
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
eat; feed
Context examples:
This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat / What do whales eat?
Hypernyms (to "feed" is one way to...):
consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "feed"):
browse; crop; graze; pasture; range (feed as in a meadow or pasture)
suckle (suck milk from the mother's breasts)
raven (feed greedily)
forage (wander and feed)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sentence example:
The animals feed
Meaning:
Serve as food for; be the food for
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Context example:
This dish feeds six
Hypernyms (to "feed" is one way to...):
cater; ply; provide; supply (provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Move along, of liquids
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
course; flow; run; feed
Context examples:
Water flowed into the cave / the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
Hypernyms (to "feed" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "feed"):
ooze; seep (pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings)
drain; run out (flow off gradually)
dribble; filter; trickle (run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream)
stream; well out (flow freely and abundantly)
run out; spill (flow, run or fall out and become lost)
pour (flow in a spurt)
run down (move downward)
run off; waste (run off as waste)
eddy; purl; swirl; whirl; whirlpool (flow in a circular current, of liquids)
circulate (move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point)
surge; tide (rise or move forward)
gush; jet (issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth)
flush (flow freely)
gutter (flow in small streams)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Profit from in an exploitatory manner
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
prey; feed
Context example:
He feeds on her insecurity
Hypernyms (to "feed" is one way to...):
exploit; work (use or manipulate to one's advantage)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Gratify
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
feast; feed
Context example:
feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view
Hypernyms (to "feed" is one way to...):
regale; treat (provide with choice or abundant food or drink)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
fertilize; fertilise; feed
Context example:
We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants
Hypernyms (to "feed" is one way to...):
enrich (make better or improve in quality)
Domain category:
agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "feed"):
topdress (scatter manure or fertilizer over (land))
dung (fertilize or dress with dung)
nitrify (treat (soil) with nitrates)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They feed the trees
