FEED


Meaning of FEED in English

I.

noun

Feed is used before these nouns: ↑ barley , ↑ mill , ↑ trough

Feed is used after these nouns: ↑ cattle , ↑ satellite

II.

verb

1 give food to a person/animal/plant

ADVERB

▪ properly , well

Have they been ~ing you well?

▪ poorly

The children were poorly fed.

▪ barely

She could barely ~ and clothe herself.

▪ regularly

VERB + FEED

▪ help (to)

How can we ~ a hungry world?

▪ afford to

He could no longer afford to ~ his family.

PREPOSITION

▪ on

She fed the children on junk food.

▪ to

Most of the crop is fed to the cattle.

▪ with

The animals are fed with hay and grass.

PHRASES

▪ a mouth to ~

He saw the new baby as just another mouth to ~.

2 eat

ADVERB

▪ voraciously

The bears ~ voraciously in summer and store energy as fat.

▪ mainly , mostly , predominantly , primarily

▪ exclusively

PREPOSITION

▪ on

The seals ~ mainly on fish and squid.

3 supply sth

ADVERB

▪ directly

▪ constantly

Receptors constantly ~ information into the system.

PREPOSITION

▪ into

The data is fed directly into a computer.

▪ through

This ~s the paper through to the printer.

▪ to , with

The media were being fed with accusations and lies.

Feed is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ baby , ↑ calf , ↑ goose , ↑ shark , ↑ tributary

Feed is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ addiction , ↑ animal , ↑ appetite , ↑ baby , ↑ cat , ↑ diet , ↑ dog , ↑ duck , ↑ ego , ↑ family , ↑ fantasy , ↑ fire , ↑ flame , ↑ food , ↑ frenzy , ↑ imagination , ↑ infant , ↑ meter , ↑ misinformation , ↑ myth , ↑ pet , ↑ pig

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .