The difference between Feed and Food
When used as nouns, feed means food given to (especially herbivorous) animals, whereas food means any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
Feed is also verb with the meaning: to give (someone or something) food to eat.
check bellow for the other definitions of Feed and Food
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Feed as a verb (transitive):
To give (someone or something) food to eat.
Examples:
"'Feed the dog every evening."
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Feed as a verb (intransitive):
To eat .
Examples:
"Spiders feed on gnats and flies."
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Feed as a verb (transitive):
To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
Examples:
"'Feed the fish to the dolphins."
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Feed as a verb (transitive):
To give to a machine to be processed.
Examples:
"'Feed the paper gently into the document shredder."
"We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data."
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Feed as a verb (figurative):
To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
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Feed as a verb:
To supply with something.
Examples:
"Springs feed ponds with water."
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Feed as a verb:
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
Examples:
"If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep."
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Feed as a verb (sports, transitive):
To pass to.
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Feed as a verb (phonology, of a phonological rule):
To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
Examples:
"Nasalization feeds raising."
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Feed as a verb (syntax, of a syntactic rule):
To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
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Feed as a noun (uncountable):
Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
Examples:
"They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses."
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Feed as a noun:
Something supplied continuously.
Examples:
"a satellite feed"
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Feed as a noun:
The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
Examples:
"the paper feed of a printer"
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Feed as a noun:
The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
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Feed as a noun (countable):
A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
Examples:
"They held a crab feed on the beach."
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Feed as a noun (Internet):
Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
Examples:
"I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites."
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Feed as a verb:
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Food as a noun (uncountable):
Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
Examples:
"synonyms: Thesaurus:food"
"The innkeeper brought them food and drink."
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Food as a noun (countable):
A foodstuff.
Examples:
"synonyms: belly-timber q1=archaic, now only humorous or regionafoodstuff provender Thesaurus:food"
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Food as a noun (uncountable, figuratively):
Anything that nourishes or sustains.
Examples:
"hypo brainfood"
"The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought."
"Mozart and Bach are food for my soul."