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1. (v.t.) breed
to produce (offspring); procreate.
2. breed
to produce by mating; propagate sexually; reproduce.
3. breed
to cause (plants or animals) to reproduce and usu. to be improved by selection.
4. breed
to give rise to; engender; produce:
Dirt breeds disease.
5. breed
to develop by training or education; bring up; rear:
born and bred a gentleman.
6. breed
to impregnate; mate:
to breed a mare.
7. breed
to produce more fissile nuclear fuel than is consumed in a reactor.
8. (v.i.) breed
to produce offspring.
9. breed
to be engendered or produced; grow.
10. (n.) breed
a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
11. breed
lineage; stock; strain.
12. breed
sort; kind; group.
Etymology: (bef. 1000; ME breden, OE brēdan to nourish)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) breed, strain, stock
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"
2. (verb) breed
a special type
"Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs"
3. (verb) engender, breed, spawn
call forth
4. (verb) breed, cover
copulate with a female, used especially of horses
"The horse covers the mare"
5. (verb) breed
cause to procreate (animals)
"She breeds dogs"
6. (verb) breed, multiply
have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
"pandas rarely breed in captivity"; "These bacteria reproduce"
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1. (verb) breed
to raise animals
to breed chickens/horses/sheep
2. breed
to produce young
Rabbits breed easily.
3. breed
to cause or produce
Ignorance breeds fear.
4. (noun) breed
a type of an animal
a rare breed of cattle
5. breed
a type of person or thing
a new breed of computer
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| Definition of 'Breed' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Breed
a race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance
2. (noun) Breed
class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities
3. (noun) Breed
a number produced at once; a brood
4. (verb) Breed
to produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch
5. (verb) Breed
to take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster
6. (verb) Breed
to educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up
7. (verb) Breed
to engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease
8. (verb) Breed
to give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men
9. (verb) Breed
to raise, as any kind of stock
10. (verb) Breed
to produce or obtain by any natural process
11. (verb) Breed
to bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant
12. (verb) Breed
to be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth
13. (verb) Breed
to have birth; to be produced or multiplied
14. (verb) Breed
to raise a breed; to get progeny
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Sense: to produce young
Rabbits breed often.
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 Afrikaans: voortplant, aanteel |
 Arabic: يلد |
 Bulgarian: раждам |
 Brazilian: reproduzir-se |
 Czech: rodit, mít mladé |
 German: gebären |
 Danish: yngle; formere sig; parre |
 Greek: γεννώ, αναπαράγομαι |
 Spanish: criar, reproducirse |
 Estonian: sigima |
 Farsi: بچه آوردن؛ تولید مثل کردن |
 Finnish: lisääntyä |
 French: se reproduire |
 Hebrew: לְהִזדָווֵג |
 Hindi: पैदा करना |
 Croatian: razmnožavati se |
 Hungarian: nemz, utódot hoz létre, e |
 Indonesian: beranak |
 Icelandic: auka kyn sitt |
 Italian: riprodursi, figliare |
 Japanese: 子を産む |
 Korean: 새끼를 낳다 |
 Lithuanian: turėti jauniklių, daugint |
 Latvian: vairoties |
 Malay: baka |
 Dutch: zich voortplanten |
 Norwegian: yngle, formere seg |
 Polish: rozmnażać się |
 Persian: بچه آوردن؛ تولید مثل کردن |
 Pashto: د مثل تولید |
 Portuguese: reproduzir-se |
 Romanian: a se reproduce |
 Russian: размножаться |
 Slovak: rozmnožovať sa |
 Slovenian: razmnoževati se |
 Serbian: imati mlade |
 Swedish: föröka sig |
 Thai: ให้กำเนิด |
 Turkish: yavrulamak,üremek |
 Taiwanese: 繁殖 |
 Ukrainian: народжувати; висиджувати |
 Urdu: نسل کشی کرنا |
 Vietnamese: sinh sản |
 Chinese: 繁殖 |
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