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To give (someone or something) food to eat

• Please don't feed the animals.

  Bitte die Tiere nicht füttern.

  Tatoeba · gleki · CC BY 2.0 FR

• Have you fed the dog?

  Hast du den Hund gefüttert?

  Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR

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To eat (usually of animals)

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

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To give to a machine to be processed

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To supply (a machine) with something to be processed

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

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To supply with something

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

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To pass toselten

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To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule)selten

Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals

• We need to buy some more chicken feed.

  Wir müssen mehr Hühnerfutter kaufen.

  Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR

Something supplied continuously

The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon

The part of a fountain pen that supplies ink to the nib

The forward motion of the material fed into a machine