feed

1. (noun) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals. 2. (noun) Something supplied continuously. 3. (noun) The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon. 4. (noun) The forward motion of the material fed into a machine. 5. (noun) A meal. 6. (noun) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity. 7. (noun) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to. 8. (verb) (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat. 9. (verb) To eat (usually of animals). 10. (verb) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food. 11. (verb) To give to a machine to be processed. 12. (verb) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.). 13. (verb) To supply with something. 14. (verb) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle. 15. (verb) To pass to. 16. (verb) (of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule. 17. (verb) (of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.