feed ing

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

(intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).

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

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

(transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.

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

(transitive) To supply with something.

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

(transitive, sports) To pass to.

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

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

(uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human 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.

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.

(countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.

(Internet) online content presented sequentially:

(syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.

(social media, often after a possessive determiner) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated

A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.