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feed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English feden, from Old English f?dan (“to feed”), from Proto-Germanic *f?dijan? (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with West Frisian fiede (“to nourish, feed”), Dutch voeden (“to feed”), Danish føde (“to bring forth, feed”), Swedish föda (“to bring forth, feed”), Icelandic fæða (“to feed”), and more distantly with Latin p?sc? (“feed, nourish”, verb) through Indo-European. More at food, fodder.
Verb
feed (third-person singular simple present feeds, present participle feeding, simple past and past participle fed)
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- If thine enemy hunger, feed him.
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- 2012 December 25 (airdate), Steven Moffat, The Snowmen (Doctor Who)
- DR SIMEON: I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to.
- 2012 December 25 (airdate), Steven Moffat, The Snowmen (Doctor Who)
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene iii[1]:
- If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
- feeding him with the hope of liberty
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene iii[1]:
- To supply with something.
- To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- Once in three years, or every other year, feed your mowing-lands.
- (sports, transitive) To pass to.
- (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
- (syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
Synonyms
- (to give food to eat): nourish
Derived terms
- underfeed
Translations
Noun
feed (countable and uncountable, plural feeds)
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
- Something supplied continuously.
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- (Britain, Australia, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- 184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
- One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; […]
- 184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
- (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
- 2020, Oliver Double, Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up (page 38)
- Don Ward is often described as a former comic, having some experience in this area as a young man, acting as a feed for the comic actor David Lodge at Parkins Holiday Camp in Jersey […]
- 2020, Oliver Double, Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up (page 38)
Derived terms
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
fee + -(e)d
Verb
feed
- simple past tense and past participle of fee
Anagrams
- deef, e-fed
Dutch
Etymology
From English feed.
Noun
feed m (plural feeds)
- encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to; a feed
- a mechanism on social media for users to receive updates from their network
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish fichet (compare Scottish Gaelic fichead), genitive singular of fiche (“twenty”), from Proto-Celtic *wikant? (compare Welsh ugain), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wih??m?t (compare Latin v?gint?), from *dwi(h?)d?m?ti (“two-ten”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?d?/
Numeral
feed
- twenty
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “fiche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English feed.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?fid??/
Noun
feed m (plural feeds)
- (Internet) feed (encapsulated online content that one can subscribe to)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English feed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fid/, [?fið?]
Noun
feed m (plural feeds)
- (Internet) feed (encapsulated online content that one can subscribe to)
feed From the web:
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- what feeds niagara falls
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- what feedback to give your manager
- what feeds the nile river
- what feeds yeast
- what feeds your soul
mess
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Etymology 1
Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals".
Noun
mess (countable and uncountable, plural messes)
- A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
- Synonyms: disorder; see also Thesaurus:disorder
- (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
- (euphemistic) Excrement.
- (figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mess.
Translations
Verb
mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)
- (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- 1905', Arthur Colton, The Belted Seas
- It wasn't right either to be messing another man's sleep.
- 1905', Arthur Colton, The Belted Seas
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- (used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English mes, partly from Old English m?se, m?ose (“table”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mitt? (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). See mission, and compare Mass (“religious service”).
Noun
mess (plural messes)
- (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
- (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
- c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to one in prison for the profession of the Gospel
- a mess of pottage
- c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to one in prison for the profession of the Gospel
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- Synonym: slaughter
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- Mess (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- 1836, George Simpson & al., HBC Standing Rules and Regulations, §18:
- Resolved 18. That no Guide or Interpreter whether at the Factory Depot or Inland be permitted to mess with Commissioned Gentlemen or Clerks in charge of Posts; but while at the Depot they will be allowed per Week 4 days ordinary rations...
- 1836, George Simpson & al., HBC Standing Rules and Regulations, §18:
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
Further reading
- Mess (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- mess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- MSEs, MSes, Mses, Mses., SEMs, SMEs
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- messél, metssz, metsszél
Etymology
metsz +? -j (personal suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?m???]
- Hyphenation: mess
- Rhymes: -???
Verb
mess
- second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of metsz
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (massa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?s/
Verb
mess (imperfect jmiss, past participle mimsus)
- to touch
- (figuratively) to touch, to affect
Conjugation
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish mes. Cognate with Irish meas (“fruit, mast”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me?s/
Noun
mess m (genitive singular mess, plural messyn)
- (botany) fruit
Derived terms
- messghart
Mutation
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
mess
- imperative of messe
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- mes
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *messus, from Proto-Indo-European *med-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [m?es]
Noun
mess m (genitive messa, nominative plural mesai)
- verbal noun of midithir
- judgment
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55d11
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55d11
Declension
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mes(s)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Swedish
Etymology
Clipping of sms.
Noun
mess n
- (colloquial) text message
- Synonym: sms
Declension
Derived terms
- messa
References
- mess in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- mess in Svensk ordbok (SO)
Vilamovian
Noun
mess n
- brass
Related terms
- messera
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