feed vs ingestion

feed

noun
  • The forward motion of the material fed into a machine. 

  • The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon. 

  • Something supplied continuously. 

  • Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals. 

  • A meal. 

  • A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities. 

  • Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to. 

  • A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance. 

verb
  • To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle. 

  • To give to a machine to be processed. 

  • To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule. 

  • To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule. 

  • To supply with something. 

  • To pass to. 

  • To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.). 

  • To give (someone or something) food to eat. 

  • To eat (usually of animals). 

  • To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food. 

ingestion

noun
  • The act of ingesting something into a jet engine. 

  • The action of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion. 

How often have the words feed and ingestion occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )