graze English
Noun
( en noun)
The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
Verb
( graz)
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
* Jonathan Swift
- a field or two to graze his cows
* 1999:' Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever '''grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — ''Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
- Cattle graze in the meadows.
* Alexander Pope
- The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
* 1993 , John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)
- The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing .
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
* Shakespeare
- when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
- the bullet grazed the wall
* 1851 ,
- But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
- to graze one's knee
To yield grass for grazing.
* Francis Bacon
- The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.
Derived terms
* overgraze
Anagrams
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feed English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feden, from (etyl) through Indo-European. More at (l), (l).
Verb
(lb) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
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*Bible, (w) xii.20:
*:If thine enemy hunger, feed him.
(lb) To eat (usually of animals).
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
(lb) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
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*2012 December 25 (airdate), (Steven Moffat), The Snowmen'' (''Doctor Who )
*:DR SIMEON: I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to.
(lb) To give to a machine to be processed.
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(lb) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
*(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
*:feeding him with the hope of liberty
To supply with something.
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To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
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*Mortimer
*:Once in three years feed your mowing lands.
To pass to.
*{{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Kevin Darlin, work=BBC
, title= West Brom 1-3 Blackburn
, passage=Morrison then played a pivotal role in West Brom's equaliser, powering through the middle and feeding Tchoyi, whose low, teasing right-wing cross was poked in by Thomas at the far post}}
To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
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Noun
(uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
- They sell feed , riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
Something supplied continuously.
- a satellite feed
The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- the paper feed of a printer
(countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
- They held a crab feed on the beach.
(Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
- I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.
Derived terms
* atom feed
* data feed
* live Internet feed
* Internet feed
* RSS feed, syndication feed
* Web feed
Derived terms
* bite the hand that feeds one
* chicken feed
* feed dog
* feeding frenzy
* feed one's face
* feedstock
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* misfeed
* off one's feed
* overfeed
* underfeed
Etymology 2
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