| breed | 1. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. "Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed." (Shak) "Greyhounds of the best breed." (Carpenter) 2. Class; sort; kind; of men, things, or qualities. "Are these the breed of wits so wondered at?" (Shak) "This courtesy is not of the right breed." (Shak) 3. A number produced at once; a brood. Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to men. 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. "Yet every mother breeds not sons alike." (Shak) "If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog." (Shak) 2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. "To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed." (Dryden) "Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness." (Everett) 3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up. "But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant." (Bp. Burnet) "His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in." (Locke) 4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. "Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment." (Milton) 5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. 6. To raise, as any kind of stock. 7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. "Children would breed their teeth with less danger." (Locke) Synonym: To engender, generate, beget, produce, hatch, originate, bring up, nourish, train, instruct. Origin: OE. Breden, AS. Bredan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from brod brood; akin to D. Broeden to brood, OHG. Bruoten, G. Bruten. See Brood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| breeder material | <radiobiology> In D-T fusion, refers to lithium or lithium-containing substances which are placed in the blanket to convert the fusion neutrons back into tritium, using nuclear transmutation of lithium isotopes. (09 Oct 1997) |
| breeder reactor | <physics> This is a nuclear reactor which produces nuclear fuel as it produces energy for electricity. (09 Oct 1997) |
| breeding | 1. The act or process of generating or bearing. 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. "She had her breeding at my father's charge." (Shak) 4. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. "Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse." (Hume) 5. Descent; pedigree; extraction. "Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding." (Shak) Close breeding, In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment. Synonym: Education, instruction, nurture, training, manners. See Education. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| half-breed | A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race. See: Half-blooded. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| breed | a lineage or race of people |
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| breed | a special kind of domesticated animals within a species |
| breed | a special lineage |
| breed | half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents) |
| breed | have young |
| breed | of plants or animals |
| breed | copulate with a female, used esp. of horses |
| breed | call forth |
| breed | a person who breeds animals |
| breed | a nuclear reactor that produces more fissile material than it burns |
| breed | the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring |
| breed | the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization |
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