FEEDING

(ditransitive) to give (someone or something) food to eat.

Example: "Feed the dog every evening."

To eat (usually of animals).

Example: "Spiders feed on gnats and flies."

To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.

Example: "Feed the fish to the dolphins."

To give to a machine to be processed.

Example: "Feed the paper gently into the document shredder."

To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).

To supply with something.

Example: "Springs feed ponds with water."

To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.

Example: "If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep."

To pass to.

(of a phonological rule) to create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.

Example: "Nasalization feeds raising."

(of a syntactic rule) to create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.