Feed and Hand

Feed

Feed verb - To put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption.

Usage example: all week long colleagues have been feeding me ideas for a magazine article

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Hand and feed are semantically related. in augment topic. In some cases you can use "Hand" instead a verb "Feed".

Nearby Words: feeding, feeder

Hand verb - To put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption.

Usage example: was happy to hand her grandmother's cookie recipes to the parish ladies to put in their cookbook

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Feed and hand are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Feed" instead a verb "Hand".

Nearby Words: handle, handy, handed, handful, handhold

human	human feed	human hand
good	good feed	good hand
short	short feed	short hand
direct	direct feed	direct hand
Other adjectives: free, single, heavy, entire, large, main, new, bloody.

At petting zoos where you can feed the animals, they sometimes hand out little Dixie cups full of feed.

Source: Extreme Omni Goat
It starts off as a fairly uneventful occasion, then Dave gets his hand bitten trying to feed the monkeys (despite the incredibly obvious "Please Do Not Feed the Monkeys" sign).

Source: Hilarity In Zoos
It was an era-appropriate early model, operated with a hand crank (although this was slightly undermined by the ammo belt; hand-cranked models invariably used a gravity-feed hopper).

Source: Gatling Good

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