v (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
v (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
v (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
v (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
v (figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
v To supply with something.
v To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
v (sports, transitive) To pass to.
v (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
v (syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
n (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
n Something supplied continuously.
n The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
n The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
n (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
n (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
n (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
n A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.