feeds
Because it is a word with a single syllable, feeds is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions offeeds
- Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
Example: "They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses."
- Something supplied continuously.
Example: "a satellite feed"
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
Example: "the paper feed of a printer"
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- A meal.
- A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
Example: "They held a crab feed on the beach."
- Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
Example: "I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites."
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
Example: "Feed the dog every evening."
- To eat (usually of animals).
Example: "Spiders feed on gnats and flies."
- To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
Example: "Feed the fish to the dolphins."
- To give to a machine to be processed.
Example: "Feed the paper gently into the document shredder."
- To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- To supply with something.
Example: "Springs feed ponds with water."
- To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
Example: "If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep."
- To pass to.
- (of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
Example: "Nasalization feeds raising."
- (of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
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