Definitions for feeds

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IPA: /fid/

Feeds is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in feeds (deefs).

Definitions for feeds

noun

1. food, especially for farm animals, as cattle, horses or chickens.
2. an allowance, portion, or supply of such food.
3. Informal. a meal, especially a lavish one.
4. the act of feeding.
5. the act or process of feeding a furnace, machine, etc.
6. the material, or the amount of it, so fed or supplied.
7. a feeding mechanism.
8. Electricity. feeder (def 10).
9. Theater Informal. a line spoken by one actor, the response to which by another actor is expected to cause laughter. an actor, especially a straight man, who provides such lines.
10. a local television broadcast distributed by satellite or network to a much wider audience, especially nationwide or international.
11. Digital Technology. a website or application that publishes updates from social media or news-collection websites in reverse chronological order: an XML-based web document that is updated automatically at predetermined intervals and includes descriptive titles or short descriptions and links to recent pages on a website:

Idioms

1. chain feed, to pass (work) successively into a machine in such a manner that each new piece is held in place by or connected to the one before.
2. off one's feed, Slang. reluctant to eat; without appetite. dejected; sad. not well; ill.

verb (used with object)

1. to give food to; supply with nourishment:
2. to yield or serve as food for:
3. to provide as food.
4. to furnish for consumption.
5. to satisfy; minister to; gratify:
6. to supply for maintenance or operation, as to a machine:
7. to provide with the necessary materials for development, maintenance, or operation:
8. to use (land) as pasture.
9. Theater Informal. to supply (an actor, especially a comedian) with lines or action, the responses to which are expected to elicit laughter. to provide cues to (an actor). Chiefly British. to prompt:
10. Radio and Television. to distribute (a local broadcast) via satellite or network.

verb (used without object)

1. (especially of animals) to take food; eat:
2. to be nourished or gratified; subsist:

Origin of feeds

before 950; Middle English feden, Old English fēdan; cognate with Gothic fodjan, Old Saxon fōdian. See food

Examples for feeds

We soon pitched camp, and took the horses to the feed, which was excellent.

“This is a way for some of us to feed our children,” Milland told The Daily Beast.

Why, we wasted enough from breakfast to feed a small family.

Country very dense and scrubby; no feed in any of the thickets.

The group puts out most of its statements—on its Twitter feed, or its numerous websites—in Arabic, as opposed to Baluchi or Farsi.

But they are nonetheless connected and they feed into each other and are in the same world.

And, according to an October post his feed, the school allegedly issued a second order of hospitalization for him.

The city protests that a beach is not a suitable place to feed the hungry.

We are very fortunate in having such a good depot, as the feed is very good.

We camped in a thicket, without water, on a small patch of feed.