English Dictionary

feed

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfiːd/

動詞

二重他動詞 自動詞 他動詞 比喩的用法 音韻規則 構文規則

(ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat. / (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals). / (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.

日本語の意味

（他者に対して）食べ物を与えること。 / （動物が）食事をすること。 / （他者に対して）食用として提供すること。

Please feed the stray cat some tuna when you come home.

家に帰ったら、野良猫にツナを少し食べさせてください。

意味（1）

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

Feed the dog every evening.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).

Spiders feed on gnats and flies.

意味（3）

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

Feed the fish to the dolphins.

意味（4）

(transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.

Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.

意味（5）

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

If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

意味（6）

To supply with something.

Springs feed ponds with water.

意味（7）

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

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

意味（8）

(sports, transitive) To pass to.

Morrison then played a pivotal role in West Brom's equaliser, powering through the middle and feeding Tchoyi, whose low, teasing right-wing cross was poked in by Thomas at the far post

意味（9）

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

Nasalization feeds raising.

意味（10）

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

This orthodox analysis […] leads to the conclusion that […] Subject–Auxiliary Inversion (SAI) is fed by the contraction operation.

feeds （ present singular third-person ）

feeding （ participle present ）

fed （ participle past ）

fed （ past ）