feed back
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Definition
- Verb (Transitive):
- To provide information or opinions about something as a reaction or response, especially to help improve it.
- To return part of the output of a system (e.g., sound, data, electrical signal) to its input, often to control or modify the system's performance.
Usage
- The verb "feed back" is commonly used in technical, professional, and evaluative contexts.
- It can be used with a direct object (what is being fed back) and often includes an indirect object or a prepositional phrase (to whom or where it is fed back).
- Example: "The microphone feeds back a high-pitched squeal when placed too close to the speaker." (Here, the sound output is returned to the input, creating a loop).
Examples
- Verb:
- "Please feed back your comments to the design team by Friday."
- "The survey results were fed back into the planning process."
- "The amplifier will feed back if the gain is set too high."
Advanced Usage
- "To feed something back into something": To reintroduce a result or product into a process or system.
- The profits are fed back into the company for further research.
- "To feed back on something": To give a response or evaluation concerning a specific subject.
- The manager will feed back on your presentation tomorrow.
Variants and Related Words
- Feedback (n): The information, response, or signal that is returned.
- We received positive feedback from our customers.
- The audio system has too much feedback.
- Feeding back (v, present participle): The act of providing a response or returning a signal.
- The system is feeding back data in real-time.
Synonyms
- Respond: To say or do something as a reaction.
- Report: To give a formal account or statement.
- Return: To send, put, or give something back.
- Loop: (In technical contexts) To cause a signal to return to its source.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- (No distinct phrasal verbs beyond the base form "feed back"). The term itself functions as a phrasal verb.
Related Idioms
- (No common idioms directly use "feed back"). The concept is typically expressed by the noun "feedback" in idioms like "feedback loop" (a process where the output of a system influences its own input).
Verb
- respond to a query or outcome
- submit (information) again to a program or automatic system