feed
Definitions
General English
General Science
- noun a device which guides paper or other materials into and through a machine
- verb to put paper into a machine or information into a computer
Agriculture
- noun food given to animals and birds
- verb to give food to a person or an animal
- verb to provide fertiliser for plants or soil
Aviation
Cars & Driving
- verb to supply (fuel, oil, current, etc.)
Computing
- noun a device which puts something such as paper into and through a machine such as a printer or photocopier
Cricket
- verb to bowl in such a way as to encourage the batsman to play a stroke which he is known to favour, typically in order to induce a catch to a specially placed fielderCitation ‘He is a strong hooker of the ball, but, perhaps because it brought about his downfall at Brisbane, it seemed that the bowlers fed this shot’ (Peebles 1959)
Electronics
- To provide power or a signal to a circuit, device, piece of equipment, or system.
- The location at which power or a signal enters a circuit, device, piece of equipment, or system.
- The transmission line, such as a coaxial cable, which carries signals between a transmitter and an antenna. Also called feeder (2), feed line, antenna transmission line, or antenna feed.
- To provide a computer with data, or a medium which contains data. For example, to enter data, or to insert a diskette into a drive.
Marketing
- verb to give information or tips to another salesperson regarding promising customers or areas for sales
Media Studies
- noun the signal a network sends to local radio or television stations for broadcast
- noun audio or video material which is sent from one place to another, such as instructions into a presenter’s earpiece
Medical
- verb to give food to someone
Travel
- noun a meal, especially given to babies
- verb to pass aircraft from an international route into domestic services
Origin & History of “feed”
Feed was formed from the noun food in prehistoric Germanic times. It comes via Old English fēdan from Germanic *fōthjan, a derivative of *fōthon, the noun from which modern English food is descended. Its use as a noun, for ‘food, fodder’, dates from the 16th century.
