feed
verb
uk/fiːd/ usfed | fed [ T ]
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.
[ I ]
to eat something:
feed on sth The beef cattle feed on grass and soya meal.
[ I or T ]
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.
Phrasal verbs
feed back
feed off sth
feed
noun
uk/fiːd/ us [ U ]
food eaten by farm animals:
The potato waste is used for cattle feed.
[ C ]
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
[ C ] IT
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.