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FED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Example:
the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the money supply
Synonyms:
Fed; Federal Reserve; Federal Reserve System; FRS
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Fed" is a kind of...):
central bank (a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government)
Meronyms (members of "Fed"):
Federal Reserve Bank; reserve bank (one of 12 regional banks that monitor and act as depositories for banks in their region)
national bank (a commercial bank chartered by the federal government)
member bank (a bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any federal law-enforcement officer
Synonyms:
Fed; Federal; federal official
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Fed" is a kind of...):
agent; federal agent (any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb feed
Context examples:
They fed into the simulation different rates of phosphine production and extrapolated what a given atmosphere's spectrum of light would look like given a certain rate of phosphine production.
(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The individual responses from the nanowire sections can then be directly fed into a computer algorithm to reconstruct the incident light spectrum.
(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)
Its three major tributary glaciers are fed by their own tributaries farther inland.
(Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf Nearing Its Final Act, NASA)
To be sure, neither the Woodman nor the Scarecrow ever ate anything, but she was not made of tin nor straw, and could not live unless she was fed.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They seem to be quite active and look very well-fed.
(Three New Species of Fish Found at Bottom of Pacific Ocean, VOA)
But the common race of horses had not so good fortune, being kept by farmers and carriers, and other mean people, who put them to greater labour, and fed them worse.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The first set of mice was fed on a low-calorie diet for 24 hours.
(New Appetite Control Mechanism Found in Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Has he/she had any change in appetite, weight, or eating habits (count as NA if the patient is incapacitated and has to be fed)?
(NPI - Change in Appetite, Weight, or Eating Habits, NCI Thesaurus)
A process that synthesizes a material of interest using a continuously fed cell culture.
(Perfusion Culture Biosynthesis, NCI Thesaurus)
