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ALL meanings of feedable

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  • noun feedable Capable of being fed (given food). 1
  • verb with object feedable to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child. 1
  • verb with object feedable to yield or serve as food for: This land has fed 10 generations. 1
  • verb with object feedable to provide as food. 1
  • verb with object feedable to furnish for consumption. 1
  • verb with object feedable to satisfy; minister to; gratify: Poetry feeds the imagination. 1
  • verb with object feedable to supply for maintenance or operation, as to a machine: to feed paper into a photocopier. 1
  • verb with object feedable to provide with the necessary materials for development, maintenance, or operation: to feed a printing press with paper. 1
  • verb with object feedable to use (land) as pasture. 1
  • verb with object feedable Theater Informal. to supply (an actor, especially a comedian) with lines or action, the responses to which are expected to elicit laughter. to provide cues to (an actor). Chiefly British. to prompt: Stand in the wings and feed them their lines. 1
  • verb with object feedable Radio and Television. to distribute (a local broadcast) via satellite or network. 1
  • verb without object feedable (especially of animals) to take food; eat: cows feeding in a meadow; to feed well. 1
  • verb without object feedable to be nourished or gratified; subsist: to feed on grass; to feed on thoughts of revenge. 1
  • noun feedable food, especially for farm animals, as cattle, horses or chickens. 1
  • noun feedable an allowance, portion, or supply of such food. 1
  • noun feedable Informal. a meal, especially a lavish one. 1
  • noun feedable the act of feeding. 1
  • noun feedable the act or process of feeding a furnace, machine, etc. 1
  • noun feedable the material, or the amount of it, so fed or supplied. 1
  • noun feedable a feeding mechanism. 1
  • noun feedable Electricity. feeder (def 10). 1
  • noun feedable Theater Informal. a line spoken by one actor, the response to which by another actor is expected to cause laughter. an actor, especially a straight man, who provides such lines. 1
  • noun feedable a local television broadcast distributed by satellite or network to a much wider audience, especially nationwide or international. 1
  • noun feedable Digital Technology. a website or application that publishes updates from social media or news-collection websites in reverse chronological order: I follow all of the latest celebrity gossip in my Twitter feed. an XML-based web document that is updated automatically at predetermined intervals and includes descriptive titles or short descriptions and links to recent pages on a website: Subscribe to news feeds to get the latest news from around the world. 1
  • idioms feedable chain feed, to pass (work) successively into a machine in such a manner that each new piece is held in place by or connected to the one before. 1
  • idioms feedable off one's feed, Slang. reluctant to eat; without appetite. dejected; sad. not well; ill. 1
  • adjective feedable Capable of being fed (given as food). 0
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