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Meaning of 'breed'
Meaning of 'breed' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Breed 
[ 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.
- A number produced at once; a brood.
2. Breed [ 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.
- To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
- To raise a breed; to get progeny.
3. Breed [ 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.
- To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
- To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
- To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
- To raise, as any kind of stock.
- To produce or obtain by any natural process.
Meaning of 'breed' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. breed [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a special type
- a special type
Example in sentence:
- Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs
Meaning (2):
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
Example in sentence:
- he created a new strain of sheep;
- he experimented on a particular breed of white rats
2. breed [ v]
[ v]Meaning (3):
- have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
- have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
Example in sentence:
- pandas rarely breed in captivity
Meaning (4):
- cause to procreate (animals)
- cause to procreate (animals)
Example in sentence:
- She breeds dogs
Meaning (5):
- copulate with a female, used especially of horses
- copulate with a female, used especially of horses
Example in sentence:
- The horse covers the mare
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