off one's feed
verb (used with object)
1.
to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.
2.
to yield or serve as food for: This land has fed 10 generations.
3.
to provide as food.
4.
to furnish for consumption.
5.
to satisfy; minister to; gratify: Poetry feeds the imagination.
6.
to supply for maintenance or operation, as to a machine: to feed paper into a photocopier.
7.
to provide with the necessary materials for development, maintenance, or operation: to feed a printing press with paper.
8.
to use (land) as pasture.
9.
Theater Informal.
a.
to supply (an actor, especially a comedian) with lines or action, the responses to which are expected to elicit laughter.
b.
to provide cues to (an actor).
c.
Chiefly British. to prompt: Stand in the wings and feed them their lines.
10.
Radio and Television. to distribute (a local broadcast) via satellite or network.
verb (used without object)
11.
(especially of animals) to take food; eat: cows feeding in a meadow; to feed well.
12.
to be nourished or gratified; subsist: to feed on grass; to feed on thoughts of revenge.
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noun
Idioms 13.
food, especially for farm animals, as cattle, horses or chickens.
14.
an allowance, portion, or supply of such food.
15.
Informal. a meal, especially a lavish one.
16.
the act of feeding.
17.
the act or process of feeding a furnace, machine, etc.
18.
the material, or the amount of it, so fed or supplied.
19.
a feeding mechanism.
20.
21.
Theater Informal.
a.
a line spoken by one actor, the response to which by another actor is expected to cause laughter.
b.
an actor, especially a straight man, who provides such lines.
22.
a local television broadcast distributed by satellite or network to a much wider audience, especially nationwide or international.
23.
Digital Technology. an XML-based Web document that is updated automatically at predetermined intervals and includes descriptive titles or short descriptions and links to recent pages on a Web site: Subscribe to news feeds to get the latest news from around the world.
24.
chain feed, to pass (work) successively into a machine in such a manner that each new piece is held in place by or connected to the one before.
25.
off one's feed, Slang.
a.
reluctant to eat; without appetite.
b.
dejected; sad.
c.
not well; ill.
Origin:
before 950; Middle English feden, Old English fēdan; cognate with Gothic fodjan, Old Saxon fōdian. See food
before 950; Middle English feden, Old English fēdan; cognate with Gothic fodjan, Old Saxon fōdian. See food
Related forms
feed·a·ble, adjective
out·feed, verb (used with object), out·fed, out·feed·ing.
re·feed, verb, re·fed, re·feed·ing.
un·feed·a·ble, adjective
Synonyms
1, 2. nourish, sustain. 5. nurture, support, encourage, bolster. 13. Feed, fodder, forage, provender mean food for animals. Feed is the general word: pig feed; chicken feed. Fodder is especially applied to dry or green feed, as opposed to pasturage, fed to horses, cattle, etc.: fodder for winter feeding; Cornstalks are good fodder. Forage is food that an animal obtains (usually grass, leaves, etc.) by searching about for it: Lost cattle can usually live on forage. Provender denotes dry feed, such as hay, oats, or corn: a supply of provender in the haymow and corn cribs.
1, 2. nourish, sustain. 5. nurture, support, encourage, bolster. 13. Feed, fodder, forage, provender mean food for animals. Feed is the general word: pig feed; chicken feed. Fodder is especially applied to dry or green feed, as opposed to pasturage, fed to horses, cattle, etc.: fodder for winter feeding; Cornstalks are good fodder. Forage is food that an animal obtains (usually grass, leaves, etc.) by searching about for it: Lost cattle can usually live on forage. Provender denotes dry feed, such as hay, oats, or corn: a supply of provender in the haymow and corn cribs.
Antonyms
1, 2. starve.
1, 2. starve.
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feed (fiːd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb , feeds, feeding, fed | |
| 1. | to give food to: to feed the cat |
| 2. | to give as food: to feed meat to the cat |
| 3. | (intr) to eat food: the horses feed at noon |
| 4. | to provide food for: these supplies can feed 10 million people |
| 5. | to provide what is necessary for the existence or development of: to feed one's imagination |
| 6. | to gratify; satisfy: to feed one's eyes on a beautiful sight |
| 7. | (also intr) to supply (a machine, furnace, etc) with (the necessary materials or fuel) for its operation, or (of such materials) to flow or move forwards into a machine, etc |
| 8. | to use (land) as grazing |
| 9. | informal theatre to cue (an actor, esp a comedian) with lines or actions |
| 10. | sport to pass a ball to (a team-mate) |
| 11. | electronics to introduce (electrical energy) into a circuit, esp by means of a feeder |
| 12. | (also intr; |
| —n | |
| 13. | the act or an instance of feeding |
| 14. | food, esp that of animals or babies |
| 15. | the process of supplying a machine or furnace with a material or fuel |
| 16. | the quantity of material or fuel so supplied |
| 17. | the rate of advance of a cutting tool in a lathe, drill, etc |
| 18. | a mechanism that supplies material or fuel or controls the rate of advance of a cutting tool |
| 19. | informal theatre a performer, esp a straight man, who provides cues |
| 20. | informal a meal |
| [Old English fēdan; related to Old Norse fœtha to feed, Old High German fuotan, Gothic fōthjan; see | |
| 'feedable | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
feed
O.E. fedan "nourish, feed," from P.Gmc. *fothjanan (cf. O.S. fodjan, O.Fris. feda, Goth. fodjan "to feed"). The noun sense of "food for animals" is first attested 1588. Fed up "surfeited, disgusted, bored," is British slang first recorded 1900, extended to U.S. by World War I; probably from earlier phrases
like fed up to the back teeth. Feeding frenzy is from 1989, metaphoric extension of a phrase that had been used of sharks since 1950s.
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Idioms & Phrases
off one's feed
Have no desire to eat, have lost one's appetite, as in Even though Mom's gone only for a week, her absence puts Dad off his feed. Originating in the early 1800s and first used only for animals, this colloquial term later was applied to humans as well.
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