feed
Noun
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is a type of: food, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissuesubtypes:
- blood meal - the dried and powdered blood of animals
- corn gluten feed - a feed consisting primarily of corn gluten
- cattle cake - a concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes
- creep feed - feed given to young animals isolated in a creep
- fodder - coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
- feed grain - grain grown for cattle feed
- ensilage, silage - fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo
- oil cake - mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock
- pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops, swill - wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
- mash - mixture of ground animal feeds
- cud, rechewed food - food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again
- bird feed, bird food, birdseed - food given to birds; usually mixed seeds
- pet food, pet-food, petfood - food prepared for animal pets
- mast - nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine
- fish meal - ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock
same as: provender
Verb
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causes: eat - take in solid foodis a type of: cater, ply, provide, supply - give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenancesubtypes:
- dine - give dinner to; host for dinner
- scavenge - feed on carrion or refuse
- fodder - give fodder (to domesticated animals)
- slop, swill - feed pigs
- regurgitate - feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food
- corn - feed (cattle) with corn
- malnourish, undernourish - provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment
- overfeed - feed excessively
- spoonfeed - feed with a spoon
- force-feed - feed someone who will not or cannot eat
- lunch - provide a midday meal for
- breakfast - provide breakfast for
- breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse - give suck to
- bottlefeed - feed (infants) with a bottle
- inject - feed intravenously
- aliment, nourish, nutrify - give nourishment to
- range - let eat
- crop, graze, pasture - let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
same as: give -
is a type of: enclose, inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in - place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thingsame as: feed in
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subtypes:same as: eatverb group: eat - take in solid food
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is a type of: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motionsubtypes:
- flush - flow freely
- gush, jet - issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
- surge, tide - rise or move forward
- circulate - move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point
- eddy, purl, swirl, whirl, whirlpool - flow in a circular current, of liquids
- run off, waste - run off as waste
- run down - move downward
- pour - flow in a spurt
- run out, spill - flow, run or fall out and become lost
- stream, well out - flow freely and abundantly
- dribble, filter, trickle - run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
- drain, run out - flow off gradually
- ooze, seep - pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
- gutter - flow in small streams
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same as: prey
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same as: feast
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referred to in: agriculture, farming, husbandry - the practice of cultivating the land or raising stockis a type of: enrich - make better or improve in qualitysubtypes:
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