feed vs food
food vs feedfeed and food both are nouns.
feed is a verb but food is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| feed | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| food | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
food is a hypernym of
feed; that is, food is a
word with a broader meaning than feed:
- feed: food for domestic livestock
- food: any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
Other hypernyms of feed include
nutrient.
| feed (noun) | food (noun) |
|---|---|
| food for domestic livestock | any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue |
| anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking | |
| any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment |
| feed (verb) | food (verb) |
|---|---|
| provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | |
| introduce continuously | |
| take in food; used of animals only | |
| give food to | |
| serve as food for; be the food for | |
| feed into; supply | |
| provide as food | |
| gratify | |
| profit from in an exploitatory manner | |
| move along, of liquids | |
| support or promote |
Words related to "feed"
- advance
- agriculture
- aliment
- bird feed
- bird food
- birdseed
- blood meal
- board
- boost
- bottlefeed
- breakfast
- breastfeed
- brim over
- browse
- cater
- cattle cake
- circulate
- consume
- corn
- corn gluten feed
- course
- creep feed
- crop
- cud
- dine
- drain
- dribble
- dung
- eat
- eddy
- enclose
- encourage
- enrich
- ensilage
- exploit
- farming
- fat
- fatten
- fatten out
- fatten up
- feast
- feed grain
- feed in
- feeder
- feeding
- fertilise
- fertilize
- fill out
- filter
- fish meal
- flesh out
- flow
- flush
- fodder
- food
- forage
- force-feed
- furnish
- further
- give
- give suck
- graze
- gush
- gutter
- have
- husbandry
- inclose
- ingest
- inject
- insert
- introduce
- jet
- lactate
- lunch
- malnourish
- mash
- mast
- move
- nitrify
- nourish
- nurse
- nutrient
- nutrify
- offer
- oil cake
- ooze
- overfeed
- overflow
- overrun
- pasture
- pet food
- pet-food
- petfood
- pigswill
- pigwash
- plump
- plump out
- ply
- potato pulp
- pour
- prey
- promote
- provender
- provide
- purl
- put in
- range
- raven
- rechewed food
- regale
- regurgitate
- render
- run
- run down
- run off
- run out
- run over
- scavenge
- seep
- silage
- slop
- slops
- spill
- spoonfeed
- starve
- stick in
- stream
- suck
- suckle
- supply
- surge
- swill
- swirl
- take
- take in
- tide
- topdress
- treat
- trickle
- undernourish
- waste
- well out
- well over
- wet-nurse
- whirl
- whirlpool
- work
Words related to "food"
- aliment
- alimentary paste
- alimentation
- baked goods
- beverage
- breakfast food
- butter
- cheese
- chocolate
- chyme
- coconut
- coconut meat
- cognitive content
- comestible
- comfort food
- commissariat
- content
- convenience food
- culture medium
- dika bread
- drink
- drinkable
- eatable
- edible
- fare
- feed
- fish
- food
- food for thought
- food product
- foodstuff
- fresh food
- fresh foods
- garden truck
- green goods
- green groceries
- health food
- intellectual nourishment
- isaw
- junk food
- leftovers
- loaf
- manna
- manna from heaven
- meat
- medium
- mental object
- micronutrient
- miraculous food
- nourishment
- nutrient
- nutriment
- nutrition
- pabulum
- pasta
- potable
- produce
- provender
- provisions
- seafood
- slop
- solid
- solid food
- soul food
- substance
- superfood
- sustenance
- takoyaki
- viands
- victual
- victuals
- vitellus
- water
- yoghourt
- yoghurt
- yogurt
- yolk
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