feed
US: /ˈfid/
UK: /fˈiːd/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
feed /fi:d/- danh từ
- sự ăn, sự cho ăn
- out at feed: cho ra đồng ăn cỏ
- off one's feed: (ăn) không thấy ngon miệng
- on the feed: đang ăn mồi, đang tìm mồi (cá)
- cỏ, đồng cỏ
- suất lúa mạch, suất cỏ khô (cho ngựa)
- (thông tục) bữa ăn, bữa chén
- chất liệu, sự cung cấp, chất liệu (cho máy móc)
- đạn (ở trong súng), băng đạn
- sự ăn, sự cho ăn
- ngoại động từ fed
- cho ăn (người, súc vật)
- to feed a cold: ăn nhiều khi bị cảm lạnh (để tăng sức đề kháng)
- he cannot feed himself: nó chưa và lấy ăn được
- cho (trâu, bò...) đi ăn cỏ
- nuôi nấng, nuôi cho lớn
- to feed up: nuôi cho béo, bồi dưỡng; cho ăn chán chê; làm cho chán chê, làm cho ngấy
- nuôi (hy vọng); làm tăng (cơn giận...)
- dùng (ruộng) làm đồng cỏ
- cung cấp (chất liệu cho máy...)
- to feed the fire: bỏ thêm lửa cho củi cháy to
- (sân khấu), (từ lóng) nhắc bằng vĩ bạch (giữa hai diễn viên)
- (thể dục,thể thao) chuyền (bóng, cho đồng đội sút làm bàn)
- cho ăn (người, súc vật)
- nội động từ
- ăn, ăn cơm
- ăn cỏ (súc vật)
- to feed on someone
- dựa vào sự giúp đỡ của ai
- to feed on something
- sống bằng thức ăn gì
- to be fed up
- (từ lóng) đã chán ngấy
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun+ verb (fed, fed )
give / eat food
1 ~ sb/sth (on) sth
~ sth to sb/sth to give food to a person or an animal: [VN] Have you fed the cat yet? + The baby can't feed itself yet (= can't put food into its own mouth). + The cattle are fed on barley. + [VNN, VN] The cattle are fed barley. + The barley is fed to the cattle.
2 [V] (of a baby or an animal) to eat food: Slugs and snails feed at night.
See also -
3 [VN] to provide food for a family or group of people: They have a large family to feed. + There's enough here to feed an army.
plant
4 [VN] to give a plant a special substance to make it grow: Feed the plants once a week.
give advice / information
5 ~ sb sth
~ sth to sb to give advice, information, etc. to sb/sth: [VNN, VN] We are constantly fed gossip and speculation by the media. + Gossip and speculation are constantly fed to us by the media.
supply
6 [VN] ~ A (with B)
~ B into A to supply sth to sb/sth: The electricity line is fed with power through an underground cable. + Power is fed into the electricity line through an underground cable. + The lake is fed by a river.
put into machine
7 [VN] ~ A (with B)
~ B into A
~ sth (into / through sth) to put or push sth into or through a machine: He fed coins into the meter. + He fed the meter with coins. + The information was fed into the data store. + The fabric is fed through the machine.
satisfy need
8 [VN] to satisfy a need, desire, etc. and keep it strong: For drug addicts, the need to feed the addiction takes priority over everything else.
Idioms: feed your face (informal, usually disapproving) to eat a lot of food or too much food
a feeding frenzy (especially AmE) a period of time during which sb/sth eats, spends, etc. a lot in a way that does not seem to be controlled
more at BITE v.
Phrasal Verbs: feed on / off sth
1 (of an animal) to eat sth: Butterflies feed on the flowers of garden plants.
2 (often disapproving) to become stronger because of sth else: Racism feeds on fear. + He feeds off the work and reputation of others.
feed through (to sb/sth) to reach sb/sth after going through a process or system: It will take time for the higher rates to feed through to investors.
feed sb<->up (BrE) to give a lot of food to sb to make them fatter or stronger
+ noun
meal for baby / animal
1 [C] a meal of milk for a young baby; a meal for an animal: her morning feed
for animals / plants
2 [U, C] food for animals or plants: winter feed for the horses + liquid tomato feed + a sack of feed
for machine
3 [U] material supplied to a machine
4 [C] a pipe, device, etc. which supplies a machine with sth: the cold feed to the water cylinder + The printer has an automatic paper feed.
large meal
5 [C] (informal) a large meal: They needed a bath and a good feed.
television programmes
6 [U] (AmE) television programmes that are sent from a central station to other stations in a NETWORK; the system of sending out these programmes: network feed
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 provision, cater or provide (for), victual, purvey, provender, supply, maintain, nurture, nourish, board, support, sustain, wine and dine:
Is there enough to feed everyone?
2 eat, devour, graze, pasture:
Cattle feed most of the day.
3 feed on or upon. subsist or survive or depend or thrive on or upon, be nourished or gratified or supported by:
Swindlers feed on others' gullibility.
n.
4 fodder, forage, pasturage, silage, food, provender:
What kind of feed are you giving the sheep?
Collocation
1 give food to a person/animal/plant
ADV.
properly, well
Have they been feeding you well?
| regularly
VERB + FEED
help (to)
Let us discipline ourselves so as to help feed a hungry world.
PREP.
on
She fed the children on baked beans and fish fingers.
| to
Most of the crop is fed to the cattle.
| with
The animals are fed with hay and grass.
PHRASES
a mouth to feed
He saw the new baby as just another mouth to feed.
2 eat
ADV.
voraciously
The bears feed voraciously in summer and store energy as fat.
| busily
Egrets and a solitary grey heron were busily feeding.
| mainly, predominantly | exclusively
PREP.
on
The seals feed mainly on fish and squid.
3 supply sth
ADV.
directly
PREP.
into
The data is fed directly into a computer.
| through
This feeds the paper through to the printer.
| to, with
feeding the media with rumours and accusations
Concise dictionary
fed|feeds|feedingfɪːdnoun
+food for domestic livestock
verb
+provide as food
+give food to
+feed into; supply
+introduce continuously
+support or promote
+take in food; used of animals only
+serve as food for; be the food for
+move along, of liquids
+profit from in an exploitatory manner
+gratify
+provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
feed|fees|feeingfɪː
noun
+a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
+an interest in land capable of being inherited
verb
+give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
