feed

Foodstuff grown or developed for livestock and poultry to maintain the health of the animals and to increase the quality of such end products as meat, milk, or eggs. Modern feeds are derived from crops grown specifically for research or from by-products of surplus crops or foods produced for human consumption. Feeds are categorized as either concentrates (high in digestibility of nutrients but low in fibre content) or roughages (high in fibre and comparatively low in digestive nutrients). Most diets consist of a combination of feeds.

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• As a verb, to feed means to give food to, or to eat food. See feeding.
• Feed as a noun often refers to animal feed, food given to or meant for livestock (see also "fodder")

Inserting one thing into another:

• Card feed
• Paper feed

Telecommunications

(Information from Federal Standard 1037C and MIL-STD-188)

• To supply a signal to the input of a system, subsystem, equipment, or electronic component, such as a transmission line or antenna
• A coupling device between an antenna and its transmission line that may consist of a distribution network or a primary radiator
• A transmission facility between (a) the point of origin of a signal, such as is generated in a radio or television studio, and (b) the head-end of a distribution facility, such as an individual station in a broadcasting network
• Data feed
• Bulk data feed
• Data Feed Optimization
• Delayed data feed (lag)
• Feed horn
• Horn (telecommunications)

Computing

• Line feed
• Web feed, the RSS or Atom feeds used by news aggregators
• feed: URI scheme, a mechanism to access web feeds

Popular culture

• Feed, a postcyberpunk, dystopian novel written by M. T. Anderson in 2002
• Feed, an e-zine, also known as feedmag.com
• The Feed, a segment on the American TV series Attack of the Show!
• Feed, a 2005 film directed by Brett Leonard

Other

• In metalworking, feed describes the rate at which a tool advances into the workpiece. The term speeds and feeds combines two important conditions that affect cutting tool life and metal removal rates.

FEED may refer to:

• FEED (Foundation for European Economic Development)
• FEED (Front End Engineering Design)

See also

• Feederism is a sexual fetish involving the submissive partner in a relationship being fed to the stage of obesity by the dominant one for sexual gratification.