Difference between Fertilise and Feed

What is the difference between Fertilise and Feed?

Fertilise as a verb is to make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it. while Feed as a verb is to give food to eat, nurture

Fertilise

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.

Feed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to give food to eat, nurtureto eat (usually of animals)To give to a machine to be processed.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.Something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed.A gathering to eat, especially in quantityEncapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that you can subscribe to with a feed reader.

Example sentence: The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

We hope you now know whether to use Fertilise or Feed in your sentence.

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