Tra từ feed - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

feed [feed feeds fed feeding] verb, noun BrE [fiːd] NAmE [fiːd]
verb (fed, fedBrE [fed] ; NAmE [fed] )

GIVE/EAT FOOD
1. transitive to give food to a person or an animal
•~ sb/sth/yourself Have you fed the cat yet?
• The baby can't feed itself yet (= can't put food into its own mouth).
•~ sb/sth (on) sth The cattle are fed (on) barley.
•~ sth to sb/sth The barley is fed to the cattle.
2. intransitive (of a baby or an animal)to eat food
• Slugs and snails feed at night.
see also ↑feed on something
3. transitive ~ sb to provide food for a family or group of people
• They have a large family to feed.
• There's enough here to feed an army.

PLANT
4. transitive ~ sth to give a plant a special substance to make it grow
• Feed the plants once a week.

GIVE ADVICE/INFORMATION
5. transitive to give advice, information, etc. to sb/sth
•~ sb sth We are constantly fed gossip and speculation by the media.
•~ sth to sb Gossip and speculation are constantly fed to us by the media.

SUPPLY
6. transitive to supply sth to sb/sth
•~ A (with B) The lake is fed by a river.
• The electricity line is fed with power through an underground cable.
•~ B into A Power is fed into the electricity line through an underground cable.

PUT INTO MACHINE
7. transitive to put or push sth into or through a machine
•~ A (with B) He fed the meter with coins.
•~ B into A He fed coins into the meter.
•The information was fed into the data store.
•~ sth into/through sth The fabric is fed through the machine.

SATISFY NEED
8. transitive ~ sth to satisfy a need, desire, etc. and keep it strong
•For drug addicts, the need to feed the addiction takes priority over everything else.
more at bite the hand that feeds you at ↑bite _v.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English fēdan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch voeden and ↑food.

Example Bank:
•Egrets and a solitary grey heron were busily feeding.
•Have they been feeding you well?
•He could no longer afford to feed his family.
•He saw the new baby as just another mouth to feed.
•How can we feed a hungry world?
•Let us discipline ourselves so as to help feed a hungry world.
•Most of the crop is fed to the cattle.
•Receptors constantly feed information into the system.
•She could barely feed and clothe herself.
•She fed the children on baked beans and fish fingers.
•She fed the children on junk food.
•The animals are fed with hay and grass.
•The bears feed voraciously in summer and store energy as fat.
•The children were poorly fed.
•The data is fed directly into a computer.
•The media were being fed with accusations and lies.
•The seals feed mainly on fish and squid.
•This feeds the paper through to the printer.
•Feed the kids and make sure they're in bed by nine.
•My grandmother always feeds me well.
•The baby can't feed herself yet.
•There's enough here to feed an army.
•They've got a large family to feed.
Idiom: ↑feed your face
Derived: ↑feed back ▪ ↑feed into something ▪ ↑feed on something ▪ ↑feed somebody up ▪ ↑feed through

noun

MEAL FOR BABY/ANIMAL
1. countable a meal of milk for a young baby; a meal for an animal
•her morning feed

FOR ANIMALS/PLANTS
2. uncountable, countable food for animals or plants
•winter feed for the horses
•liquid tomato feed
•a sack of feed

FOR MACHINE
3. uncountable material supplied to a machine
4. countable a pipe, device, etc. which supplies a machine with sth
•the cold feed to the water cylinder
•The printer has an automatic paper feed.

LARGE MEAL
5. countable (informal)a large meal
•They needed a bath and a good feed.

TELEVISION PROGRAMMES
6. uncountable (NAmE)television programmes that are sent from a central station to other stations in a network; the system of sending out these programmes
•network feed

Word Origin:
Old English fēdan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch voeden and ↑food.