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Stenka25 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
Tricky verb ‘feed’
tricky verb ‘feed’
The passage below is from ‘the Blank Slate’ by Steven Pinker.
http://evolbiol.ru/blankslate/blankslate.htm
Evolution is central to understanding ourselves because signs of design in human beings do not stop at the heart or the eye. For all its exquisite engineering, an eye is useless without a brain. Its output is not the meaningless patterns of a screen saver, but raw material for circuitry that computes a representation of the external world. That representation feeds other circuits that make sense of the world by imputing causes to events and placing them in categories that allow useful predictions.
In this passage the meaning and usage of the underlined verb ‘feed’ is hard to figure out.
I checked out several dictionaries and found out one example that is suitable to this ‘feed’ in question.
? two rivers feed this reservoir
And its meaning was ‘supply.’
Am I right?
(Since I’ve had much difficulty in finding out example question – most of examples were the usage of ditransitive verb as in The camera feeds the images to a monitor – can you give me another example sentence?)
Regards.
The passage below is from ‘the Blank Slate’ by Steven Pinker.
http://evolbiol.ru/blankslate/blankslate.htm
Evolution is central to understanding ourselves because signs of design in human beings do not stop at the heart or the eye. For all its exquisite engineering, an eye is useless without a brain. Its output is not the meaningless patterns of a screen saver, but raw material for circuitry that computes a representation of the external world. That representation feeds other circuits that make sense of the world by imputing causes to events and placing them in categories that allow useful predictions.
In this passage the meaning and usage of the underlined verb ‘feed’ is hard to figure out.
I checked out several dictionaries and found out one example that is suitable to this ‘feed’ in question.
? two rivers feed this reservoir
And its meaning was ‘supply.’
Am I right?
(Since I’ve had much difficulty in finding out example question – most of examples were the usage of ditransitive verb as in The camera feeds the images to a monitor – can you give me another example sentence?)
Regards.
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Stenka25 the meaning and usage of the underlined verb ‘feed’ is hard to figure out. Supplies data to Stenka25 most of examples were the usage of ditransitive verb as in The camera feeds the images to a monitor – can you give me another example sentence? Of ditransitives?
- Stenka25 the meaning and usage of the underlined verb ‘feed’ is hard to figure out.
- Supplies data to Stenka25 most of examples were the usage of ditransitive verb as in The camera feeds the images to a monitor – can you give me another example sentence?
- Of ditransitives?
- If you use 'to', it is not ditransitive; this is ditransitive: The camera feeds the monitor the images .
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Stenka25 the meaning and usage of the underlined verb ‘feed’ is hard to figure out.Supplies data to
Stenka25most of examples were the usage of ditransitive verb as in The camera feeds the images to a monitor – can you give me another example sentence?Of ditransitives? If you use 'to', it is not ditransitive; this i
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All neurons (nerve cells) have dendrites, parts that bring electrochemical information to the call, and an axon, the part that sends electrochemical information from the cell to the dendrites of other nerve cells. This has led to the metaphorical picture of the nervous system as a set of electrical circuits, with the dendrites actings as inputs and the axons acting as outputs. In this model, the
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