FEED BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feed back mean? 

• FEED BACK (verb)
  The verb FEED BACK has 2 senses:

1. submit (information) again to a program or automatic system

2. respond to a query or outcome

  Familiarity information: FEED BACK used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEED BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Submit (information) again to a program or automatic system

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

feed back; resubmit

Hypernyms (to "feed back" is one way to...):

render; return (give back)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

feedback (the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Respond to a query or outcome

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "feed back" is one way to...):

advise; propose; suggest (make a proposal, declare a plan for something)

"Feed back" entails doing...:

answer; reply; respond (react verbally)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

feedback (response to an inquiry or experiment)

 Context examples 

Ethinyl estradiol and norgestimate act by negative feed back mechanism at pituitary gland suppressing the release of gonadotropin hormones follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH).

(Ethinyl Estradiol/Norgestimate, NCI Thesaurus)