1. a. To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children. b. To provide as food or nourishment: fed fish to the cat.

2. a. To serve as food for: The turkey is large enough to feed a dozen. b. To produce food for: The valley feeds an entire county.

3. a. To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer. b. To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation: Melting snow feeds the reservoirs. c. To distribute (a local radio or television broadcast) to a larger audience or group of receivers by way of a network or satellite.

4. a. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid. b. To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions.

5. To supply as a cue: feed lines to an actor.

6. Sports. To pass a ball or puck to (a teammate), especially in order to score.

1. To eat: pigs feeding at a trough.

2. To be nourished or supported: an ego that feeds on flattery.

3. a. To move steadily, as into a machine for processing. b. To be channeled; flow: This road feeds into the freeway.

1. a. Food for animals or birds. b. The amount of such food given at one time.

2. Informal. A meal, especially a large one.

3. The act of eating.

4. a. Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace. b. The act of supplying such material.

5. a. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine. b. The aperture through which such material enters a machine.

6. Distribution of a locally broadcast radio or television program by way of a network or satellite to a larger audience or group of receivers.