Feed vs Feast - What's the Difference?
Definition as Noun
- something experienced with great delight
- a ceremonial dinner party for many people
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- an elaborate party (often outdoors)
Definition as Noun
- food for domestic livestock
Definition as Verb
- partake in a feast or banquet
- provide a feast or banquet for
- gratify
Definition as Verb
- provide as food
- feed into; supply
- support or promote
- serve as food for; be the food for
- take in food; used of animals only
- gratify
- introduce continuously
- provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- give food to
- profit from in an exploitatory manner
- move along, of liquids
Examples
- "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quite a spread"
- "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
- "feed the guests the nuts"
- "Her success feeds her vanity"
- "His admiration fed her vanity"
- "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
- "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
- "feed carrots into a food processor"
- "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
- "feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"
- "He feeds on her insecurity"
- "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"