Feed

(noun.) food for domestic livestock.

(verb.) introduce continuously; 'feed carrots into a food processor'.

(verb.) give food to; 'Feed the starving children in India'; 'don't give the child this tough meat'.

(verb.) take in food; used of animals only; 'This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat'; 'What do whales eat?'.

(verb.) serve as food for; be the food for; 'This dish feeds six'.

(verb.) feed into; supply; 'Her success feeds her vanity'.

(verb.) provide as food; 'Feed the guests the nuts'.

(verb.) gratify; 'feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view'.

(verb.) support or promote; 'His admiration fed her vanity'.

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• They picket them here to feed at night and keep them out of sight in the timber in the daytime, he thought. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Obviously, as the cylinder was turned, the needle followed a spiral path whose pitch depended upon that of the feed screw. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• We feed him once a day, and not too much then, so that he is always as keen as mustard. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• In some the pug mill is arranged horizontally to feed out the clay in the form of a long horizontal slab, which is cut up into proper lengths to form the bricks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Because the ferments of that fermentation feed more easily on the right hand than on the left hand molecules. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• And this man that's to be his master--you, sir--you'll treat him well, and feed him, and do all that sort of thing, will you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• A silo is a place or receptacle for storing green feed to preserve it for future feeding on the farm. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It would have been very like a Christian, and a marvellously good Christian too, if Oliver had prayed for the people who fed and took care of _him_. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• A large number of baths can be run by this apparatus by connecting them with a bath fed by it. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I know that I lounged about the streets, insufficiently and unsatisfactorily fed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In this way the grain that was to be cut would be properly fed to the knife. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• If a man has just eaten, or if he is well fed generally and the opportunity to hear music is a rarity, he will probably prefer the music to eating. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The system of filling adopted consists of a culvert in each side wall feeding laterals from which are openings upward into the lock chamber. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an Inquisition. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A silo is a place or receptacle for storing green feed to preserve it for future feeding on the farm. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The land is manured, either by pasturing the cattle upon it, or by feeding them in the stable, and from thence carrying out their dung to it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They are incapable of making their own nests, or of feeding their own larvae. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The horse was impatient at the tenderness while he was feeding. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The same girl who feeds the gum into the wrapping machine closes the lids of the boxes and places them on a packing table by her side. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The expense of a great lord feeds generally more idle than industrious people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It is this stock which feeds, clothes, and lodges the people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He appeared of a russet hue, not more distinguishable from the scene around him than the green caterpillar from the leaf it feeds on. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Among other important improvements in the steam engine are those for replenishing the water in the boiler, and the Giffard Injector is the simplest and most ingenious of all boiler feeds. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I am one of that class of people that feeds you all, and at present abused by you all; in short, I am a _farmer_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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