Feed vs Send - What's the difference?
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(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= To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
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(uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
Something supplied continuously.
The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
(countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
(Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
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, title= (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
* 1947 , (Robertson Davies), (The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks) , Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183,
* 1957', (Sam Cooke), ,
* 1991 , , "(Set Adrift on Memory Bliss)",
To bring to a certain condition
* 1913 , ,
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
* Bible, 2 Kings vi. 32
To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 20
* Sir Walter Scott
(nautical) To pitch.
* Totten
(telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
(nautical)
In transitive terms the difference between feed and send
is that feed is to give to a machine to be processed while send is to make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.In intransitive terms the difference between feed and send
is that feed is to eat usually of animals while send is to dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.feed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feden, from (etyl) through Indo-European. More at (l), (l).Verb
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}}
Noun
- They sell feed , riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- a satellite feed
- the paper feed of a printer
- They held a crab feed on the beach.
- 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 feedDerived terms
* bite the hand that feeds one * chicken feed * feed dog * feeding frenzy * feed one's face * feedstock * * misfeed * off one's feed * overfeed * underfeedEtymology 2
+ -(e)dsend
English
Verb
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
- The train had an excellent whistle which sent' me, just as Sinatra ' sends the bobby-sockers.
- Darling you send' me / I know you ' send me
- Baby you send me.
- “I suppose,” blurted Clara suddenly, “she wants a man.”
- The other two were silent for a few moments.
- “But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,” said Paul.
- See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
- God send him well!
- The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
- God send your mission may bring back peace.
- The ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
Synonyms
* (make something go somewhere) emit, broadcast, mailDerived terms
* besend * downsend * foresend * forsend * forthsend * insend * missend * offsend * onsend * outsend * oversend * send a message * send around * send away * send back * send down * send for * send in * send off/send-off * send on * send out * send someone packing * send someone to the showers * send to Coventry * send up/send-up * upsendNoun
(en noun)- sends and receives
- The send of the sea. — Longfellow.