Feed vs Foodstuffs - What's the difference?
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Feed is a related term of foodstuffs. As nouns the difference between feed and foodstuffs is that feed is (uncountable) food given to (especially herbivorous) animals while foodstuffs is . As a verb feed is ( lb) to give (someone or something) food to eat or feed can be ( fee).
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. ΒΆ.
(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
+ -(e)d
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foodstuffs English
Noun
(head)
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