<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.</li><li>Synonyms: sustain, nourish</li><li>Antonyms: starve</li><li>to yield or serve as food for: This land has fed 10 generations.</li><li>Synonyms: sustain, nourish</li><li>Antonyms: starve</li><li>to provide as food.</li><li>to furnish for consumption.</li><li>to satisfy; minister to; gratify: Poetry feeds the imagination.</li><li>Synonyms: bolster, encourage, support, nurture</li><li>to supply for maintenance or operation, as to a machine: to feed paper into a photocopier.</li><li>to provide with the necessary materials for development, maintenance, or operation: to feed a printing press with paper.</li><li>to use (land) as pasture.</li><li>Theater Informal: to supply (an actor, especially a comedian) with lines or action, the responses to which are expected to elicit laughter.</li><li>to provide cues to (an actor).</li><li>Chiefly British: to prompt: Stand in the wings and feed them their lines.</li><li>Radio and Television: to distribute (a local broadcast) via satellite or network.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>food, especially for farm animals, as cattle, horses, or chickens.</li><li>an allowance, portion, or supply of such food.</li><li>Informal: a meal, especially a lavish one.</li><li>the act of feeding.</li><li>the act or process of feeding a furnace, machine, etc.</li><li>the material, or the amount of it, so fed or supplied.</li><li>a feeding mechanism.</li><li>Electricity: feeder (def 10).</li><li>Theater Informal: a line spoken by one actor, the response to which by another actor is expected to cause laughter.</li><li>an actor, especially a straight man, who provides such lines.</li><li>a local television broadcast distributed by satellite or network to a much wider audience, especially nationwide or international.</li><li>Digital Technology: a website or application that publishes updates from social media or news-collection websites in reverse chronological order: I follow all of the latest celebrity gossip in my Twitter feed.</li><li>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: Subscribe to news feeds to get the latest news from around the world.</li></ul>