Feed and Portion

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

Portion and feed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Portion" instead the word "Feed" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: feeding, feeder

Portion

Portion verb - To give out (something) to appropriate individuals.

Feed and portion are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Feed" instead the word "Portion" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: portioned, portioning, porting, portionless

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

live live feed live portion
human human feed human portion
good good feed good portion
short short feed short portion
Other adjectives: present, front, entire, large, main, decent, new.

Common collocations

world feed world portion world
times feed times portion times

Both words in one sentence

  • In its 14 years on-air, it also never launched an HD feed—a death sentence for a sports-oriented network, as it was relegated to a portion of program guides that only fans intentionally seeking out the channel would ever find it in.
  • When the moment actually came, the live portion was just Lucille saying three forced-sounding words, followed by the cast pretending to celebrate getting through without a slip, and saying they had to get ready for the west-coast feed.
    Source: Live Episode
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