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Shop vs Feed - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between shop and feed

is that shop is an establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well while feed is (uncountable) food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.

As verbs the difference between shop and feed

is that shop is to visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something while feed is (lb) to give (someone or something) food to eat or feed can be (fee).

As an interjection shop

is (used to attract the services of a shop assistant).

shop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
  • * Cowper
  • From shop' to ' shop / Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks / The polished counter.
  • A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A tailor called me in his shop .
  • An automobile mechanic's workplace.
  • Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk'', ''closed shop'' and ''shop floor .
  • A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
  • (business, computing) an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.
  • Our company is mostly a Java shop .
  • An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
  • This is where I do my weekly shop .

    Synonyms

    * (establishment that sells goods) boutique, retail outlet, store (US); see also * (place where things are crafted) atelier, studio, workshop * (sense, automobile mechanic's workplace) garage * (workplace) office, place of work, workplace * (wood shop) carpentry, wood shop, woodwork * (metal shop) metal shop, metalwork

    Derived terms

    * beauty shop * bucket shop * charity shop * chip shop * close up shop * coffee shop * cop shop * corner shop * food shop * gift shop * like a bull in a china shop * one-stop shop * op shop * pawn shop * pet shop * Photoshop® * pound shop * repair shop * sex shop * shoe shop * shopaholic * shop assistant * shopfloor * shopfront * shopgirl * shophouse * shopkeep * shopkeeper * shopman * shop right * shop steward * shop talk * shopward * shopwards * shopworn * shut up shop * swap shop * sweet shop, sweet-shop, sweetshop * wood shop * workshop

    Verb

    (shopp)
  • To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.
  • I went shopping early, before the Christmas rush.
    He’s shopping for clothes .
  • (transitive, slang, chiefly, UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
  • He shopped his mates in to the police.
  • (internet slang) Shorthand for photoshop ; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
  • Synonyms

    * (to report a criminal to authority) grass up (slang)

    Derived terms

    * shop around * shopper * shop till you drop * window shopping

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (Used to attract the services of a shop assistant)
  • 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