Feed

Definition

feed / fi:d / v ( pt, pp fed /fed/) ၁။ ~ sb/sth (on sth); ~ sth to sb/sth ေကြၽးသည္။ စားသည္။ She has a large family to feed. ❍ I fed and watered the horses. ❍ The baby can't feed itself yet (ie can't put food into its own mouth). ❍ What do you feed your dog on? ❍ feed the baby some more stewed apple. See also BREAST-FEED, FEEDER ၂။ (က) ~ (on/off sth ) စားသည္။ The cows were feeding on hay in the barn. ❍ ( infml ) Have you fed yet? (ခ) စားသည္။ There's enough here to feed us all. ၃။ ~ A (with B) /~ B into A (မီး၊ ဆီ စသည္) ထိုးသည္၊ ထည့္ သည္။ (အင္း၊ အိုင္၊ ေခ်ာင္း၊ ေျမာင္း စသည္) စီးဝင္သည္။ ျဖည့္ သြင္းသည္။ ထည့္သည္။ feed the fire (with wood) ❍ The lake is fed by several small streams. ❍ Excuse me a minute — I need to go and feed the meter (ie put extra coins into it, eg for parking). ❍ The moving belt feeds the machine with raw material/feeds raw material into the machine. ၄။ မွန္မွန္ေပးသည္။ ပို႔ေပးသည္။ Our overseas agents feed us regular information about the state of the market in their area. n ၁။ [C] ေကြၽးခ်ိန္။ When is the baby's next feed? ၂။ (က) [U, C] တိရစၧာန္အစာ။ high-protein animal feeds. (ခ) [U] စက္သံုးကုန္ၾကမ္း။ ၃။ [C] ေလာင္စာပိုက္လိုင္း။ The petrol feed is blocked. ❏ feed sth in [ PHRV ] ထည့္သည္။ To get a ticket you need to feed another coin in. ❏ feeding-bottle n ႏို႔ဘူး။ ❏ feed on/off sth [ PHRV ] မီွ၍ရွင္သန္ ႀကီးထြားသည္။ Hatred feeds on envy. ❏ feed sb up [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) ေကြၽးေမြးျပဳစုသည္။ You look very thin; I think you need feeding up a bit.

Examples

1. We’ve been feeding the ducks on the river.
2. [feed someone/something on something] : The dogs were fed on raw meat.
3. [feed something to someone/something] : The leftover food is fed to the pigs.
4. [properly fed] : All the children will be properly fed and cared for.
5. The money he brings home isn’t enough to feed a family of five.
6. More food supplies are needed to feed the starving population.
7. Young babies need to feed every three to four hours.
8. She sat down to feed the baby.
9. The birds return here to feed at dusk.
10. The plants should be fed and watered regularly.
11. [feed something with something] : Feed tomato plants with a general fertilizer once a week.
12. [feed someone with something] : He’s been feeding the police with information about terrorist activities.
13. [feed something into something] : Information is fed into the computer and stored in a database.
14. [feed something to someone/something] : The main arteries that feed blood to the brain
15. [feed something into something] : She saw him feeding documents into the shredder.
16. [feed something through (something)] : Feed the fabric gently through the machine.
17. [feed something with something] : I fed the parking meter with my remaining change.
18. The newspapers are feeding public anxiety about contaminated food.
19. [feed a habit] : Many young drug users turn to crime to feed their habit.
20. [feed an addiction] : Her son was using his dinner money to feed his gambling addiction.