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Feed vs Keed - What's the difference?

feed | keed |

As nouns the difference between feed and keed

is that feed is food given to (especially herbivorous) animals while keed is kid.

As a verb feed

is to give (someone or something) food to eat.

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.
  • :
  • *Bible, (w) xii.20:
  • *:If thine enemy hunger, feed him.
  • (lb) To eat (usually of animals).
  • :
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
  • (lb) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
  • :
  • *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.
  • :
  • :
  • (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.
  • :
  • To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
  • :
  • *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.
  • :
  • 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 * * misfeed * off one's feed * overfeed * underfeed

    Etymology 2

    + -(e)d

    keed

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (eye dialect) Kid.
  • * 1968 (2014), Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles
  • I’m still with you, keed
  • * 2005 , Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing's Greatest Fighters , Globe Pequot (ISBN 9781592286324), page 134
  • Gutierrez and the boy, then known to Gutierrez as "The Keed'" and to his street friends as Eligio Sardinias, formed an alliance, one destined to make "The ' Keed " el campeon.
  • * 2008 , Josefina Niggli, Mexican Village and Other Works , Northwestern University Press (ISBN 9780810123403), page 512
  • Hello, keed !” Bob put his hand over his ear to shut out the sound. That distant woman&
  • 39;s voice was claiming his entire attention. Joaquín grinned in sympathy and strolled toward the window. “Silence, little ones,” he said reprovingly, “or I will call ...
  • * 2010 , Lawrence Block, No Score , Open Road Media (ISBN 9781453208663)
  • And have the money in my pocket before that kike changes his sonofabitching mind. You want to get ready, keed ?” “Me?” “He means me,” Aileen said. “My prize model.” I said, “No kidding? You do the modeling?” “That&
  • 39;s how I found her, keed.
  • * 2012 , Ann Lacy, Anne Valley Fox, Stories from Hispano New Mexico: A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book , Sunstone Press (ISBN 9780865348851), page 215
  • Mr. Garcia asked me again, “What&
  • 39;s new? You bring me those history books of Billy the Keed ?” I showed him the picture of Pat Garrett who shot Billy the Kid.