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# feed

«feed» in Mova's school dictionary: **To give food to a person or animal: "Feed the cat."** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (feed, feeds, fed, feeding); noun (feed — food for animals; a feed — a meal; a feed — a stream of online posts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To give food to a person or animal: "Feed the cat." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#m1)

2) For animals, to eat: "Cows feed on grass." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#m2)

3) To supply something to a machine or a place: "feed paper into the printer". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#m3)

4) As a noun, food for animals: "chicken feed". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#m4)

5) As a noun, a list of new posts on a website or app. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science, animals "feed on" other living things (food chains: the owl feeds on mice). In pet care: feed pets the right food at the right times; don't feed wild animals human food. In online safety: a "feed" shows posts — not all are true. Phrases: feed on, fed up (bored or annoyed), breastfeed, bird feeder.

### examples

- Please feed the dog before school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#x1)
- Caterpillars feed on leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#x2)
- Don't feed bread to the ducks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#x3)
- I'm fed up with the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#x4)
- Feed the paper into the printer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#x5)
- The farmer bought feed for the chickens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#x6)
- Mother birds feed their chicks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#x7)
- Her news feed was full of cat videos. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#x8)
- You and I don't feed alike." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/#x9)

### note

Past "fed" (not "feeded"). "Fed up" means bored or annoyed. "Feed on" means eat, often in science. In maths, "feeds 3 cats with 2 cans each" = 3 × 2 = 6 cans.

### In the corpora

- [A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/6/)
- [Babies feed from the breast or a bottle, often for twenty minutes or more, and they need calm to settle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/17/)
- [The idea that goldfish remember things for only 3 seconds is a myth: experiments show they remember feeding times and tricks for months.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/9/)
- [City animals are wild animals, so watch them, but do not feed, chase or touch them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/4/)
- [Whales are mammals: they breathe air, are warm-blooded, give birth to live young and feed them milk.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «feed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.