| feed | | |
| n. (food) | 1. feed, provender | food for domestic livestock. |
| ~ food, nutrient | any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue. |
| ~ 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. |
| v. (consumption) | 2. feed | provide as food.; "Feed the guests the nuts" |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
| v. (consumption) | 3. feed, give | give food to.; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" |
| ~ dine | give dinner to; host for dinner.; "I'm wining and dining my friends" |
| ~ eat | take in solid food.; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
| ~ scavenge | feed on carrion or refuse.; "hyenas scavenge" |
| ~ fodder | give fodder (to domesticated animals). |
| ~ swill, slop | feed pigs. |
| ~ regurgitate | feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food.; "many birds feed their young by regurgitating what they have swallowed and carried to the nest" |
| ~ corn | feed (cattle) with corn. |
| ~ malnourish, undernourish | provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment.; "The stunted growth of these children shows that they are undernourished" |
| ~ overfeed | feed excessively. |
| ~ spoonfeed | feed with a spoon. |
| ~ force-feed | feed someone who will not or cannot eat. |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
| ~ lunch | provide a midday meal for.; "She lunched us well" |
| ~ breakfast | provide breakfast for. |
| ~ breastfeed, give suck, lactate, wet-nurse, suckle, nurse, suck | give suck to.; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" |
| ~ bottlefeed | feed (infants) with a bottle. |
| ~ inject | feed intravenously. |
| ~ aliment, nutrify, nourish | give nourishment to. |
| ~ range | let eat.; "range the animals in the prairie" |
| ~ pasture, graze, crop | let feed in a field or pasture or meadow. |
| v. (consumption) | 4. feed | feed into; supply.; "Her success feeds her vanity" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| v. (change) | 5. feed, feed in | introduce continuously.; "feed carrots into a food processor" |
| ~ put in, inclose, insert, stick in, introduce, enclose | introduce.; "Insert your ticket here" |
| v. (social) | 6. feed | support or promote.; "His admiration fed her vanity" |
| ~ encourage, promote, further, boost, advance | contribute to the progress or growth of.; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom" |
| v. (consumption) | 7. eat, feed | take in food; used of animals only.; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" |
| ~ ingest, consume, have, take in, take | serve oneself to, or consume regularly.; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
| ~ eat | take in solid food.; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
| ~ forage | wander and feed.; "The animals forage in the woods" |
| ~ raven | feed greedily.; "The lions ravened the bodies" |
| ~ suckle | suck milk from the mother's breasts.; "the infant was suckling happily" |
| ~ graze, browse, pasture, crop, range | feed as in a meadow or pasture.; "the herd was grazing" |
| v. (consumption) | 8. feed | serve as food for; be the food for.; "This dish feeds six" |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
| v. (motion) | 9. course, feed, flow, run | move along, of liquids.; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" |
| ~ flush | flow freely.; "The garbage flushed down the river" |
| ~ jet, gush | issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth.; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ tide, surge | rise or move forward.; "surging waves" |
| ~ circulate | move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point.; "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate" |
| ~ eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl | flow in a circular current, of liquids. |
| ~ waste, run off | run off as waste.; "The water wastes back into the ocean" |
| ~ run down | move downward.; "The water ran down" |
| ~ pour | flow in a spurt.; "Water poured all over the floor" |
| ~ spill, run out | flow, run or fall out and become lost.; "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table" |
| ~ well out, stream | flow freely and abundantly.; "Tears streamed down her face" |
| ~ dribble, trickle, filter | run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream.; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" |
| ~ drain, run out | flow off gradually.; "The rain water drains into this big vat" |
| ~ ooze, seep | pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings. |
| ~ gutter | flow in small streams.; "Tears guttered down her face" |
| v. (consumption) | 10. feed, prey | profit from in an exploitatory manner.; "He feeds on her insecurity" |
| ~ exploit, work | use or manipulate to one's advantage.; "He exploit the new taxation system"; "She knows how to work the system"; "he works his parents for sympathy" |
| v. (consumption) | 11. feast, feed | gratify.; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view" |
| ~ regale, treat | provide with choice or abundant food or drink.; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night" |
| v. (change) | 12. feed, fertilise, fertilize | provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to.; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" |
| ~ farming, husbandry, agriculture | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock. |
| ~ enrich | make better or improve in quality.; "The experience enriched her understanding"; "enriched foods" |
| ~ nitrify | treat (soil) with nitrates. |
| ~ dung | fertilize or dress with dung.; "you must dung the land" |
| ~ topdress | scatter manure or fertilizer over (land). |
| nourish | | |
| v. (consumption) | 1. nourish, nurture, sustain | provide with nourishment.; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children" |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
| ~ carry | be able to feed.; "This land will carry ten cows to the acre" |
| v. (consumption) | 2. aliment, nourish, nutrify | give nourishment to. |
| ~ feed, give | give food to.; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" |
| sustain | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. keep up, prolong, sustain | lengthen or extend in duration or space.; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work" |
| ~ keep on, retain, continue, keep | allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature.; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings" |
| ~ preserve, uphold, carry on, continue, bear on | keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last.; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions" |
| v. (body) | 2. get, have, suffer, sustain | undergo (as of injuries and illnesses).; "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle" |
| ~ collapse, break down | collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack. |
| ~ cramp | suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle. |
| ~ have | suffer from; be ill with.; "She has arthritis" |
| ~ crack up, crock up, collapse, break up, crack | suffer a nervous breakdown. |
| ~ experience, have, receive, get | go through (mental or physical states or experiences).; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" |
| v. (consumption) | 3. keep, maintain, sustain | supply with necessities and support.; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn and many to keep" |
| ~ patronage | support by being a patron of. |
| ~ reseed | maintain by seeding without human intervention.; "Some plants reseed themselves indefinitely" |
| ~ have, have got, hold | have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense.; "She has $1,000 in the bank"; "He has got two beautiful daughters"; "She holds a Master's degree from Harvard" |
| ~ carry | keep up with financial support.; "The Federal Government carried the province for many years" |
| v. (contact) | 4. hold, hold up, support, sustain | be the physical support of; carry the weight of.; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What's holding that mirror?" |
| ~ scaffold | provide with a scaffold for support.; "scaffold the building before painting it" |
| ~ block | support, secure, or raise with a block.; "block a plate for printing"; "block the wheels of a car" |
| ~ carry | bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of.; "His efforts carried the entire project"; "How many credits is this student carrying?"; "We carry a very large mortgage" |
| ~ chock | support on chocks.; "chock the boat" |
| ~ buoy, buoy up | keep afloat.; "The life vest buoyed him up" |
| ~ pole | support on poles.; "pole climbing plants like beans" |
| ~ bracket | support with brackets.; "bracket bookshelves" |
| ~ underpin | support from beneath. |
| ~ prop, prop up, shore up, shore | support by placing against something solid or rigid.; "shore and buttress an old building" |
| ~ truss | support structurally.; "truss the roofs"; "trussed bridges" |
| ~ brace | support by bracing. |
| v. (communication) | 5. sustain | admit as valid.; "The court sustained the motion" |
| ~ acknowledge, admit | declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of.; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain | establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" |
| ~ back up, back | establish as valid or genuine.; "Can you back up your claims?" |
| ~ vouch | give supporting evidence.; "He vouched his words by his deeds" |
| ~ verify | confirm the truth of.; "Please verify that the doors are closed"; "verify a claim" |
| ~ shew, demonstrate, prove, show, establish | establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment.; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" |
| ~ document | support or supply with references.; "Can you document your claims?" |
| ~ validate | prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something. |
| kaon | | |
| n. (object) | 1. k particle, k-meson, kaon, kappa-meson | an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision. |
| ~ meson, mesotron | an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0. |
| eat | | |
| v. (consumption) | 1. eat | take in solid food.; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
| ~ ingest, consume, have, take in, take | serve oneself to, or consume regularly.; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
| ~ eat | eat a meal; take a meal.; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation" |
| ~ eat | eat a meal; take a meal.; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation" |
| ~ wash down | eat food accompanied by lots of liquid; also use metaphorically.; "She washed down her dinner with a bottle of red wine"; "He washes down his worries with a nightly glass of whisky" |
| ~ fress, gluttonise, gluttonize | eat a lot and without restraint. |
| ~ wolf, wolf down | eat hastily.; "The teenager wolfed down the pizza" |
| ~ slurp | eat noisily.; "He slurped his soup" |
| ~ fare | eat well. |
| ~ pitch in, dig in | eat heartily.; "The food was placed on the table and the children pitched in" |
| ~ peck at, pick at, peck | eat like a bird.; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food" |
| ~ peck, pick up | eat by pecking at, like a bird. |
| ~ gobble, bolt | eat hastily without proper chewing.; "Don't bolt your food!" |
| ~ garbage down, gobble up, bolt down, shovel in | eat a large amount of food quickly.; "The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake" |
| ~ nibble, piece, pick | eat intermittently; take small bites of.; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles" |
| ~ ruminate | chew the cuds.; "cows ruminate" |
| ~ eat, feed | take in food; used of animals only.; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" |
| ~ dip, dunk | dip into a liquid while eating.; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce" |
| ~ guttle, pig, raven, devour | eat greedily.; "he devoured three sandwiches" |
| ~ eat up, polish off, finish | finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table.; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" |
| ~ consume, down, devour, go through | eat immoderately.; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" |
| ~ chew, manducate, masticate, jaw | chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth.; "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass" |
| ~ swallow, get down | pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking.; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!" |
| ~ fill up, fill | eat until one is sated.; "He filled up on turkey" |
| v. (consumption) | 2. eat | eat a meal; take a meal.; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation" |
| ~ ingest, consume, have, take in, take | serve oneself to, or consume regularly.; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
| ~ take away, take out | buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food.; "We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook" |
| ~ victual | take in nourishment. |
| ~ dine in, eat in | eat at home. |
| ~ dine out, eat out | eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home. |
| ~ dine | have supper; eat dinner.; "We often dine with friends in this restaurant" |
| ~ picnic | eat alfresco, in the open air.; "We picnicked near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday" |
| ~ eat | take in solid food.; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
| ~ eat | take in solid food.; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
| ~ break bread | have a meal, usually with company.; "The early Christian disciples broke bread together" |
| ~ nosh, snack | eat a snack; eat lightly.; "She never loses weight because she snacks between meals" |
| ~ mess | eat in a mess hall. |
| ~ lunch | take the midday meal.; "At what time are you lunching?" |
| ~ brunch | eat a meal in the late morning.; "We brunch in Sundays" |
| ~ breakfast | eat an early morning meal.; "We breakfast at seven" |
| ~ feast, banquet, junket | partake in a feast or banquet. |
| ~ binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, satiate, stuff | overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" |
| v. (emotion) | 3. eat, eat on | worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way.; "What's eating you?" |
| ~ vex, worry | disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.; "I cannot sleep--my daughter's health is worrying me" |
| v. (consumption) | 4. consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out | use up (resources or materials).; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
| ~ run out | exhaust the supply of.; "We ran out of time just as the discussion was getting interesting" |
| ~ drain | deplete of resources.; "The exercise class drains me of energy" |
| ~ luxuriate, indulge | enjoy to excess.; "She indulges in ice cream" |
| ~ burn off, burn up, burn | use up (energy).; "burn off calories through vigorous exercise" |
| ~ expend, spend, drop | pay out.; "spend money" |
| ~ spend | spend completely.; "I spend my pocket money in two days" |
| ~ take, use up, occupy | require (time or space).; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" |
| ~ play out, sap, exhaust, tire, run down | deplete.; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" |
| v. (change) | 5. corrode, eat, rust | cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid.; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" |
| ~ damage | inflict damage upon.; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" |
| ~ rust, corrode | become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid.; "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted" |
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