Fed
    n 1: any federal law-enforcement officer [syn: Federal, Fed,
         federal official]
    2: the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12
       Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and
       state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies;
       "the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by
       raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the money
       supply" [syn: Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve,
       Fed, FRS]

Fed \Fed\ (f[e^]d),
   imp. & p. p. of Feed.
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Feed \Feed\ (f[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fed (f[e^]d); p. pr.
   & vb. n. Feeding.] [AS. f[=e]dan, fr. f[=o]da food; akin to
   OS. f[=o]dian, OFries. f[=e]da, f[=o]da, D. voeden, OHG.
   fuottan, Icel. f[ae][eth]a, Sw. f["o]da, Dan. f["o]de.
   [root]75. See Food.]
   1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy
      the physical huger of.
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            If thine enemy hunger, feed him.      --Rom. xii.
                                                  20.
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            Unreasonable creatures feed their young. --Shak.
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   2. To satisfy; gratify or minister to, as any sense, talent,
      taste, or desire.
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            I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
                                                  --Shak.
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            Feeding him with the hope of liberty. --Knolles.
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   3. To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or
      wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill;
      to feed a furnace with coal.
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   4. To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen,
      develop, and guard.
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            Thou shalt feed my people Israel.     --2 Sam. v. 2.
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            Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed. --B.
                                                  Cornwall.
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   5. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by
      cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it
      with sheep.
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            Once in three years feed your mowing lands.
                                                  --Mortimer.
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   6. To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for
      consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed
      water to a steam boiler.
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   7. (Mach.)
      (a) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a
          machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
      (b) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in
          wood and metal working machines, so that the work
          moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
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field emission display
FED

    (FED) A type of flat panel display in which field
   emitting cathodes bombard a phosphor coating causing it to
   emit light.

   A field emission display is similar to a cathode ray tube
   but only a few millimeters thick.  They use a large array of
   fine metal tips or carbon nanotubes (which are the most
   efficient electron emitters known), to emit electrons through
   a process known as field emission.  Many of these are behind
   each phosphor dot so FEDs do not display dead pixels like LCDs
   even if 20% of the emitters fail.  Sony is researching FED
   because it is the flat-panel technology that comes closest to
   matching the picture of a CRT.

   (2007-10-10)