breed: betydelser og definitioner

To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch.

To bring about; engender: "Admission of guilt tends to breed public sympathy” ( Jonathan Alter).

To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection: breed cattle.

To develop new or improved strains in (organisms), chiefly through controlled mating and selection of offspring for desirable traits.

To inseminate or impregnate; mate with.

To rear or train; bring up: a writer who was bred in a seafaring culture.

To be the place of origin of: Austria breeds great skiers.

To produce (fissionable material) in a breeder reactor.

To produce offspring.

To copulate; mate.

To originate and develop: Mischief breeds in bored minds.

A group of organisms having common ancestors and certain distinguishable characteristics, especially a group within a species developed by artificial selection and maintained by controlled propagation.

A kind; a sort: a new breed of politician; a new breed of computer.

Offensive A person of mixed racial descent; a half-breed.

a scab Regional To stir up trouble for oneself.

breed up a storm New England To become cloudy.