English > feed: 12 senses > noun 1, food| Meaning | Food for domestic livestock. |
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| Synonym | provender |
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| Narrower | bird feed, bird food, birdseed | Food given to birds |
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| blood meal | The dried and powdered blood of animals |
| cattle cake | A concentrated feed for cattle |
| corn gluten feed | A feed consisting primarily of corn gluten |
| creep feed | feed given to young animals isolated in a creep |
| cud, rechewed food | Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again |
| feed grain | grain grown for cattle feed |
| fish meal | Ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock |
| fodder | coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop |
| mash | mixture / mixture of ground animal feeds |
| mast | nuts of forest / forest trees used as feed for swine |
| oil cake | Mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed |
| petfood, pet-food, pet food | Food prepared for animal pets |
| silage, ensilage | fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo |
| slop, slops, swill, pigswill, pigwash | wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk |
| Broader | food, nutrient | Any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue |
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| Spanish | comida, provisiones |
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| Catalan | menjar, provisions |
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| Verbs | feed | take in food |
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| feed | serve as food for |
English > feed: 12 senses > verb 2, consumption| Meaning | Give food to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Model | They feed the food to the people; They feed the people the food |
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| Example | "Feed the starving children in India" |
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| Synonym | give |
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| Cause to | eat | take in solid food |
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| Entailed by | board | Provide food and lodging (for) |
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| fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up | make fat or plump |
| Narrower | bottlefeed | feed (infants) with a bottle |
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| breakfast | Provide breakfast for |
| breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck | give suck to |
| corn | feed (cattle) with corn |
| crop, graze, pasture | Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow |
| dine | Give dinner to |
| fodder | Give fodder (to domesticated animals) |
| force-feed | feed someone who will not or cannot eat |
| inject | feed intravenously |
| lunch | Provide a midday meal for |
| nutrify, aliment, nourish | Give nourishment to |
| overfeed | feed excessively |
| range | Let eat |
| regurgitate | feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food |
| scavenge | feed on carrion or refuse |
| slop, swill | feed pigs |
| spoonfeed | feed with a spoon |
| undernourish, malnourish | Provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment |
| Broader | provide, supply, ply, cater | Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance |
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| Opposite | starve, famish | deprive of food |
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| Spanish | alimentar, dispensar, entregar, propinar, sustentar |
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| Catalan | alimentar, dispensar, entregar, propinar, sustentar |
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| Nouns | feeder | a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material |
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| feeding | the act of supplying food and nourishment |
English > feed: 12 senses > verb 6, consumption| Meaning | take in food; used of animals only. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
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| Model | The animals feed |
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| Synonym | eat |
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| Narrower | crop, browse, graze, range, pasture | feed as in a meadow or pasture |
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| forage | wander and feed |
| raven | feed greedily |
| suckle | suck milk from the mother's breasts |
| Broader | consume, ingest, take in, take, have | Serve oneself to, or consume regularly |
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| Similar to | eat | take in solid food |
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| Spanish | alimentarse, alimentar, comer, consumir |
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| Catalan | alimentar, consumir, cruspir-se, jalar, menjar-se, menjar |
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| Nouns | feed | food for domestic livestock |
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| feeder | someone who consumes food for nourishment |
| feeding | the act of consuming food |
English > feed: 12 senses > verb 8, motion| Meaning | Move along, of liquids / liquids. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
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| Example | "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" |
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| Synonyms | run, flow, course |
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| Caused by | flow | Cause to flow |
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| flush | Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water |
| pour | Cause to run |
| Entailed by | overflow, overrun, well over, run over, brim over | Flow or run over (a limit or brim) |
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| Narrower | circulate | Move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point |
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| drain, run out | flow off gradually |
| eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl | Flow in a circular current, of liquids / liquids |
| flush | Flow freely |
| gutter | Flow in small streams |
| jet, gush | issue in a jet |
| pour | Flow in a spurt |
| run down | Move downward |
| seep, ooze | Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings |
| spill, run out | Flow, run or fall out and become lost |
| stream, well out | Flow freely and abundantly |
| tide, surge | Rise or move forward |
| trickle, dribble, filter | Run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream |
| waste, run off | run off as waste |
| Broader | move | Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion |
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| Spanish | alimentar, correr, crecer, fluir, manar |
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| Catalan | alimentar, brollar, córrer, créixer, fluir, manar, rajar |
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