feed-v; 8 Senses

Sense Number 1: give food or nourishment

Commentary: Syntax Includes: NP1[agent] FEED NP2[recipient[animate]] (NP2[patient]) NP1[agent] FEED NP2[patient] (PP{to NP[recipient[animate]]})

Examples:
Do you feed your chicken corn?
We feed the guests a full 5 course meal with 2 side salads in our tradition.
Please do not feed nuts to the animals.
Let's feed the kids first and have our dinner after.
Don't forget to feed the tomatoes.
If agriculture were given priority, the country would easily be able to feed itself.

Mappings:
VerbNet: feeding-39.7
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: feed.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 11

Sense Number 2: put in or give to something for consumption or use

Commentary:
NOTE: The thing consumed is not edible or being used as food. Includes: FEED INTO

Examples:
The images are fed over satellite networks to broadcasters throughout the world
A staff member has been secretly feeding information to the newspaper.
I fed carrots into a food processor.
Could you feed some logs to the fire?
Feed new data into a computer before running the program.
My job is to feed lines to the actors.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: feed.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
feed_in 1

Sense Number 3: support, provide for, minister to, or encourage

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1 FEED NP2[beneficiary[animate]]

Examples:
This dish will feed six persons.
Melting snow feeds the reservoirs.
Her easy success truly feeds her vanity.
The movie fed their appetite for the morbid.
His unexplained absences fed our suspicions.

Mappings:
VerbNet: fit-54.3
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: feed.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 5, 7

Sense Number 4: gratify

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1[agent] FEED NP2[patient]

Examples:
Feed your eyes with endless stretches of sky.
Feed your senses and your soul.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: feed.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 10

Sense Number 5: eat, be sustained on

Commentary: Syntax Includes: NP1[agent] FEED NP1[agent] FEED PP{P NP[patient]} Includes: FEED ON, FEED OFF, FEED UPON

Examples:
The dog feeds once a day.
How could this dog not feed on chicken meat?
The larvae fed on all of the listed plants except leaves of Melilotus indicus.
Pigs fed at a trough.
Spyware feeds on fear of computers.
Ego feeds on flattery.
He fed on the great ideas of her mentor.
Fascism feeds off poverty.

Mappings:
VerbNet: gorge-39.6
FrameNet: Ingestion
PropBank: feed.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6, 9
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
feed_on 1
feed_upon 1

Sense Number 6: channel or flow into

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1 FEED INTO NP2 Includes: FEED INTO

Examples:
The Flat River feeds into Lake Michie
This road feeds into the freeway.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: feed.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 8

Sense Number 7: take an output or response as input for further output

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1 FEED BACK NP2 Includes: FEED BACK

Examples:
The user choice is fed back into our learning module.
It all feeds back on itself in a vicious circle of unearned profits
We've been successful in feeding back that information to the individual hospitals.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: feed.02
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
feed_back 1, 2

Sense Number 8: be or become exasperated

Commentary: Includes: FED UP

Examples:
I am also fed up by an interminable, deeply tragic conflict between these two peoples.
Expecting nice gestures from this place is kind of what eventually fed me up with it.
The EU and the Euro have fed me up since they got introduced.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: feed.03