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feed
Verb
  • To give (someone or something) food to eat. transitive
  • To eat . usually of animals
  • To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food. transitive
  • To give to a machine to be processed. transitive
  • To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.). figuratively
  • To supply with something.
  • To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
  • To pass to. sports, transitive
  • To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply. phonology, of a phonological rule
Noun
  • Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals. uncountable
  • Something supplied continuously.
  • The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
  • A gathering to eat, especially in quantity countable
  • Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to. Internet
Verb
  • simple past tense and past participle of fee
fee
Noun
  • A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. feudal law
  • An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services. law
  • An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail). law
  • Property; owndom; estate. obsolete
  • Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument. obsolete
  • A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English. obsolete
  • A monetary payment charged for professional services.
Verb
  • To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.