Breed
[briːd] or [brid]
Definition
(noun.) a special type; 'Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs'.
(noun.) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; 'he experimented on a particular breed of white rats'; 'he created a new strain of sheep'.
(verb.) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms); 'pandas rarely breed in captivity'; 'These bacteria reproduce'.
(verb.) cause to procreate (animals); 'She breeds dogs'.
(verb.) copulate with a female, used especially of horses; 'The horse covers the mare'.
Typist: Marion--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
(v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
(v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
(v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
(v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock.
(v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process.
(v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
(v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
(v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
(v. i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny.
(n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
(n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
(n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Checked by Kenneth
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Nourish, nurture, foster, bring up.[2]. Discipline, educate, instruct, train, teach, school.[3]. Beget, get, procreate, engender, generate, produce.[4]. Originate, occasion, give rise to, be the cause of.
v. n. [1]. Bring forth young, produce offspring.[2]. Be born, be produced.
n. Race (of animals), lineage, pedigree, progeny, stock.
Editor: Val
Definition
v.t. to generate or bring forth: to train or bring up: to cause or occasion.—v.i. to be with young: to produce offspring: to be produced or brought forth:—pa.t. and pa.p. bred.—n. that which is bred progeny or offspring: kind or race.—ns. Breed′-bate (Shak.) one who is constantly breeding or producing debate or strife; Breed′er one who breeds or brings up; Breed′ing act of producing: education or manners.—Breeding in-and-in pairing of similar forms: marrying always among near relations.
Editor: Nicolas
Examples
- In the jail also was a half-breed horse-thief. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Wandering savages or the inhabitants of open plains rarely possess more than one breed of the same species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Issus would wipe out your entire breed an' you ever came within sight of her temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I am told you had a remarkable breed of tumblers. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The beaming sight, and the penetrating warmth, seemed to breed in him a cumulative cheerfulness, which soon amounted to delight. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In their marriages, they are exactly careful to choose such colours as will not make any disagreeable mixture in the breed. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- How many animals there are which will not breed, though kept in an almost free state in their native country! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They believe that every race which breeds true, let the distinctive characters be ever so slight, has had its wild prototype. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Livingstone states that good domestic breeds are highly valued by the negroes in the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The diversity of the breeds is something astonishing. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In the skeletons of the several breeds, the development of the bones of the face, in length and breadth and curvature, differs enormously. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The trumpeter and laugher, as their names express, utter a very different coo from the other breeds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- As he said, Business breeds. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Several other less distinct breeds might be specified. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The offered hand--rather large, but beautifully formed--was given to me with the easy, unaffected self-reliance of a highly-bred woman. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A doleful place to be born and bred in, Tattycoram? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Bred in the country, he had attentively observed the effect of lightning on trees and cattle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Wasn't I a woman delicately bred; and he,--God in heaven! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- As to Twemlow, he is so sensible of being a much better bred man than Veneering, that he considers the large man an offensive ass. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Of course, my fair readers would not have me guilty of such extreme ill-breeding as to differ in opinion from a noble duke! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And if care was not taken in the breeding, your dogs and birds would greatly deteriorate? Plato. The Republic.
- No blame attached to the officers--that lying and disaster-breeding verdict so common to our softhearted juries is seldom rendered in France. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Next came Napier, who, with his usual ill-breeding, began to whisper in Julia's ear. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The malarial mosquito and the typhoid fly flourish in unhygienic quarters, and the only way to guard against their dangers is to allow them neither food nor breeding place. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Do you think, because I am a governess, I have not as much sense, and feeling, and good breeding as you gentlefolks in Hampshire? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Edited by Georgina