I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chicken feed
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The bank offered to lend us £1,000 but that’s chicken feed compared to what we need.
fed up
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She felt tired and a bit fed up.
feed a baby
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If your baby cries, she may want feeding.
feed a cat
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She comes in while we're away to feed the cat.
feed sb on a diet of sth
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Kids should not be fed a diet of hamburgers and sugary snacks.
feeding ground
got fed up
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Anna got fed up with waiting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
animal
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People would not wish to eat animals fed on human waste.
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They do like to know how the animals are reared and fed .
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When in the nineteenth century naturalists first examined it, they were mystified as to how any animal could feed on it.
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Nor did any allergic reactions arise in those who ate the meat of animals who had been fed a gene-spliced soybean diet.
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Sunlight feeds the algae which feed the animals which feed the corals, sponges, clams, and fish.
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Many people argue that we need genetic modification of crops and animals in order to feed the world.
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During the growing season he would wash the animals and feed them while the adults worked in the fields.
baby
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She watched Naseem as the older woman fed her baby son.
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Joe got up every night and took turns with Valerie feeding the babies .
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Clare Wildish has come back for help feeding her second baby , 3 day old Emma.
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Toys for children to play with, a baby changing room, somewhere to feed baby.
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But even if they do persevere, most mums find it difficult to feed their babies in public.
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They fry were fed on baby brineshrimp and although not fast growers they seemed to do well.
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It would be even nicer if people remembered that the way you feed your baby is a matter of personal choice.
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As Mama fed the baby , she began to cry.
bird
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Now Agnes and Oats sat on either side of it, listening to the distant sounds of Hodgesaargh feeding the birds .
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Of course, she fed birds too.
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There's this bloke with a white coat on and this bag of bread, feeding the birds .
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Gradually I descended the spruce tree and slowly crept toward the feeding birds .
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The garden was his domain; he had his rabbits to feed and the birds to admonish for ravaging his cherry trees.
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Both would soon feed migrant birds on their way down from the north.
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It's nice that he does that - you know, comes and feeds the birds like that.
cat
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The next time you feed your cat , take a close look at its eyes.
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Now recliners do everything but feed the cat .
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And the money she earned from the deal went towards feeding her own cats .
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They let her come round and tell me, so I could feed the cat if she's not back.
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It was getting more and more difficult to feed the cat - and to feed himself.
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She ought to feed the cat - and then there was the washing.
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They were destined to feed his cat .
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Ninety-five percent of our cats are fed a canned cat food, the others eating scraps or whatever they can catch!
child
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In a land of poverty each person must struggle to feed her children as best she can.
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It has been used to feed children with severe diarrhea who can not digest regular milk.&038;.
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Unfastening her dress, and still blushing, she began feeding her child .
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And none of us likes to think there is anyone out there unable to feed their children .
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Just occasionally the tensions spilled over, such as when she berated Moira publicly about the way she was feeding her first child .
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Women conceive the future that men tend to flee; they feed the children that men ignore.
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A barber's daughter, she started doing business when she was a young woman to feed her children .
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Then, quickly, as though wakened from a dream, she began to dress and feed her children .
family
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Narou Chaibou, who lives near Illela, can not feed his family with the plot of land he owns.
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Even in liberated Scandinavia, it is women who feed the family , wash the clothes, and care for the children.
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The vast majority of the population struggle to feed their families .
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He fed his family oil food from the cans.
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As the head of a household, these women must work in order to feed her family .
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She was an enterprising cook, as she was in all things, and fed her family well.
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For some of the women, selling the coal dust provides their only income to feed their families .
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The child would be allowed a sum of money to feed a family for a week.
fish
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Grosser than fish feeding on toilet paper?
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Tackle tips: A steady trickle of bait running into a swim will attract and keep fish feeding in one place.
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This fish feeds readily on larval Artemia, but fully grown adults are too large.
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All the fish are fed on Hikari goldfish food or cichlid food.
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All the other fish survived the Presidential feeding .
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The fish were fed at night, before turning on the lights.
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Finally, make sure the fish are feeding first by catching one or two with your usual indicator.
information
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And he was fed the information from myriad channels, to be dispensed with the holy water on Sundays.
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If the adventurers are not very knowledgeable about Constant Drachenfels, this is a novel way of feeding them some more information .
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Some one who is close enough to the action to feed the right information and provide some answers.
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Here telesales operators will be able to feed information directly into a database as they take customer calls.
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They feed location and usage information directly to the upper levels.
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These stations must be constantly fed with information .
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There should be a mechanism for feeding this information back to the designers so that the succeeding system designs will avoid these problems.
mouth
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There's going to be another hungry mouth to feed out of your advertising budgets come October.
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More mouths to feed , Malthus contended, meant less food in each mouth.
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Very likely there was a nest there, full of hungry little mouths waiting to be fed .
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Burdens unloaded, the escort was sent back, horses and extra mouths to feed being undesired.
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In the early years, with four young mouths to feed , they were dirt-poor.
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Two had died in infancy, otherwise there would have been nine little mouths to feed .
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Now there are many more mouths to feed .
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That meant that there were seven mouths to feed , and then Daddy began to ail.
population
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Most mussel feeding Nucella populations in Britain are white.
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The food crisis was not the result of any incapacity by the Soviet Union to grow enough food to feed its population .
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Any site we consider will have its own hinterland, its own catchment area for the feeding of its population .
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In 1986, 1942 million tonnes of food grains were produced to feed a world population of nearly 5 billion.
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A specialist market in traditional treats will run alongside the great new industries that will feed the population .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a feeding frenzy
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After the initial reports on CBS, this scene became a media feeding frenzy .
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Green Bay went into a feeding frenzy in the free-agency market, and came up with some star names.
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On defense, they are hungrier than sharks in a feeding frenzy .
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The dorados were in a feeding frenzy , oblivious to all else.
mouth to feed/hungry mouth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Feed chrysanthemums with a house plant fertilizer.
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Did you feed the dog?
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Hospital officials said she is no longer able to feed herself.
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How often do you have to feed the baby?
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Humpback whales come to the California coast to feed each summer.
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Ismail's wages are hardly enough to feed his family.
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Most new babies will want to feed every few hours.
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My sister feeds the cats when we are away.
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The catering service feeds over 600 employees every day.
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The horses were fed on hay and grain.
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The larvae feed on the young shoots of water-lilies.
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The pigs were feeding from a trough in the middle of the yard.
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The tube was fed into the patient's stomach.
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There has been a boom in tourism, fed by publicity about the movie filmed there.
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This recipe feeds six.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Give them time, and then feed back to them how you feel about the way they are behaving towards you day-to-day.
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He had fed them fish frames.
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His head buzzed and sang as if power was being fed into it.
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Nor did any allergic reactions arise in those who ate the meat of animals who had been fed a gene-spliced soybean diet.
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Scavenging crabs move in to feed on dead tubeworms.
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The bigger the fish the less often they feed .
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You will be able to study them at length and note at what depth they are feeding.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
animal
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Single-cell protein production from non-photosynthetic organisms has also reached the stage of commercial availability, mainly as animal feed .
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It lost money like steam, and when the iron business cratered, it was reduced to hauling tomatoes and animal feed .
chicken
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The sum was chicken feed , and the more governmental corruption that went on there, the better.
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She would lie, steal, cheat for Oliver: burning a few hundred pounds was chicken feed .
■ NOUN
pipe
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The effect is to draw chemical from a drum, via a feed pipe , to a projecting delivery spout.
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Above: Cracking the pre-filter problem - two planting baskets were combined and the feed pipe fed through to the smaller one.
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Liquid systems are straight forward having a feed pipe from the product container direct to the non-priming delivery pump.
winter
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And hedges flailed every harvest are devoid of the berries bigger hedges sport, which are important winter feed for birds.
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The whole plant, seeds and all, cures over the summer and makes great winter feed .
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Most of the arable ground is used to produce winter feed for the stock.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bite the hand that feeds you
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If I put my prices up, it's like biting the hand that feeds me - it's economic suicide.
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It is hard to bite the hand that feeds you.
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Somehow, without guidance and peer influence, cricketers are apt to bite the hand that feeds them.
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They are not normally going to bite the hand that feeds them.
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This appears to be a new version of biting the hand that feeds you.
mouth to feed/hungry mouth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A large part of our income goes on animal feed .
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a live satellite feed
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A young baby needs small feeds at frequent intervals.
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cattle feed
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Her baby has its lunchtime feed , then goes to sleep.
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Lois has gotten tired of the late night feedings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And tonight, for the first time, the public were invited to watch the feed , and listen to a commentary.
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As a 4-H rabbit grower for two years, he had often traded at the local hardware for hutch materials and feed .
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In a closed-circuit television feed from Washington, Democrats Rep.
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In recent public appearances, the speaker looks decidedly off his feed .
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Just a extra feed of hay to mark the special day.
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The corn will have to be rerouted to animal feed and ethanol production.
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They always thought it was feed time if the light went on and would scramble up expectantly and start pawing and whinnying.