feed Definition

fee
noun fees

1. A charge made for professional services, eg by a doctor or lawyer.

Thesaurus: charge, bill.
2. A charge for eg membership of a society, sitting an examination, entrance to a museum, etc.
3. A payment for school or college education, or for a course of instruction.

Form: fees (usually)
4. A payment made to a football club for the transfer of one of its players.
5. law.
An estate in the form of land that is inheritable with either restricted rights (fee tail) or unrestricted rights (fee simple).

verb

fees, feed, feeing
1. To pay a fee to someone.

Etymology: 13c: partly from Anglo-Saxon feoh cattle or property; partly from French fie fee, which is probably from the same Germanic origin.

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feed¹
verb fed, feeding

1. To give or supply food to (animals, etc).

Thesaurus: provide for, nourish, sustain, supply, cater for.
2. To give something as food (to animals, etc).

Example: fed biscuits to his dog
3. To administer food (to an infant, young animal).

Example: to feed the baby
4. To administer food to someone in a specified way.

Example: breast-feed
Example: bottle-feed
Example: force-feed
intr
5. Said of animals: to eat food.

Example: Sheep feed all day
Thesaurus: eat, graze.
6. To supply a machine, etc with fuel or other material required for continued operation or processing.
7. theat.
To provide (an actor, especially a comedian) with material or a cue to achieve an effect, often a comic effect.
8. sport.
To pass the ball to (a team-mate).

noun

1. An act or session of feeding.
2. An allowance of food for animals, eg cattle or babies.
3. Food for livestock, etc.

Thesaurus: fodder, forage, provender, pasturage, roughage.
4. colloq
A meal, especially a hearty one.
Example: a good feed
5. The channel or mechanism by which a machine is supplied with fuel, etc.
6. The material supplied progressively for any operation.
7. The rate of supply of material to a machine; the rate of progress of a tool.
8. theat.
An actor who feeds or cues another one; a stooge.

Derivative: feedable
adj

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon fedan.

Phrasal Verb: feed on something

Said especially of animals: to eat it, especially as a regular diet.
Example: The cattle fed on hay
Said of an emotion, etc: to be fuelled by something; to be strengthened or encouraged.

Phrasal Verb: feed something on something

To give it to (esp. farm) animals as food, especially as a regular diet.
Example: The farmer fed the cattle on hay

Phrasal Verb: feed someone up

To fatten them up with nourishing food.

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