What's the verb to say 'feedback'? [closed]
I mean feedback is a noun, but how do you say it in its verb state?
For example, in this sentence: how do I feedback the information to you?
How would you replace the feedback in that sentence above with a verb? thank you!
How do I feedback the information to you?
The context of the sentence above is unclear. I am unsure which of the two interpretations accurately portray your the context of your question.
1) You are trying to provide "feedback" to someone.
Feedback [feed-bak]/ noun
- a reaction or response to a particular process or activity:
If this is the case, then I would suggest the following modifications.
How do I provide feedback to you?
or...
How do I relay the feedback to you?
2) You are trying "feed" information (not exclusively "feedback") to someone.
Feed [feed]/ verb (used with object)
to supply for maintenance or operation, as to a machine:
to provide with the necessary materials for development, maintenance, or operation:
This would be an informal corruption of feed, building off of the definitions cited above. Underlying this usage is an analogy; information:person :: paper:printer.
In this case, I would suggest the following modification.
How do I feed information back to you?
Personally I see nothing wrong with, in some cases, using the term as a verb, but split into two words.
Would you mind feeding the results back to me, please. The investigators fed back the information to the chair of the inquiry
Indeed there is an entry in the OED, (sense 8e of the verb feed) for feed back. 8e(a) has to do with the electronic meaning, but 8e(b) is the sense:
(b) In transf. sense also used intr. of a result or effect of a process: to return as feedback; to affect or modify the process that brought it about.
1940 Amateur Radio Handbk. (ed. 2) iv. 65/2 Care should be taken..so that no output of this I.F. beat oscillator feeds back to the input of the I.F. amplifier.
1945 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 240 266 The y-shaft is driven by the output of integrator II and feeds back to drive the input of the function unit.
1960 R. W. Marks Dymaxion World Buckminster Fuller 23/2 Since the benefits keep feeding back into the system, such techno-economic patterns are infinitely regenerative.
1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. x. 275 The experience from the teaching of English to foreign learners is feeding back..to the teaching profession in Britain.
1966 Rep. Comm. Inq. (Univ. of Oxf.) I. 56 There are also advances in social studies, at postgraduate level, that are likely to feed back into undergraduate work.
But I would agree that it doesn't always work.