ALL meanings of breed
breed
B b - countable noun breed A breed of a pet animal or farm animal is a particular type of it. For example, terriers are a breed of dog. 3
- verb breed If you breed animals or plants, you keep them for the purpose of producing more animals or plants with particular qualities, in a controlled way. 3
- verb breed When animals breed, they have babies. 3
- verb breed If you say that something breeds bad feeling or bad behaviour, you mean that it causes bad feeling or bad behaviour to develop. 3
- countable noun breed You can refer to someone or something as one of a particular breed of person or thing when you want to talk about what they are like. 3
- verb breed to bear (offspring) 3
- verb breed to bring up; raise 3
- verb breed to produce or cause to produce by mating; propagate 3
- verb breed to produce and maintain new or improved strains of (domestic animals and plants) 3
- verb breed to produce or be produced; generate 3
- noun breed a group of organisms within a species, esp a group of domestic animals, originated and maintained by man and having a clearly defined set of characteristics 3
- noun breed a lineage or race 3
- noun breed a kind, sort, or group 3
- verb transitive breed to bring forth (offspring) from the womb or hatch (young) from the egg 3
- verb transitive breed to be the source of; produce 3
- verb transitive breed to cause to reproduce; raise, esp. by controlled mating 3
- verb transitive breed to produce (plants) by selective pollination 3
- verb transitive breed to mate with 3
- verb transitive breed to develop (a stock or certain characteristics in it) by such mating or pollination 3
- verb transitive breed to bring up, train, or educate 3
- verb transitive breed to produce (fissile material) in a breeder reactor 3
- intransitive verb breed to be produced; originate 3
- intransitive verb breed to bring forth offspring; reproduce 3
- noun breed a group, or stock, of animals or plants descended from common ancestors and having similar characteristics, esp. such a group cultivated by humans 3
- noun breed a kind; sort; type 3
- intransitive verb breed procreate 1
- transitive verb breed raise livestock 1
- transitive verb breed mate two animals 1
- transitive verb breed horticulture: make reproduce 1
- transitive verb breed rear 1
- transitive verb breed engender 1
- noun breed animal: type, race 1
- noun breed type of person 1
- noun breed race, ancestry 1
- noun breed type, group of sth 1
- verb with object breed to produce (offspring); procreate; engender. 1
- verb with object breed to produce by mating; propagate sexually; reproduce: Ten mice were bred in the laboratory. 1
- verb with object breed Horticulture. to cause to reproduce by controlled pollination. to improve by controlled pollination and selection. 1
- verb with object breed to raise (cattle, sheep, etc.): He breeds longhorns on the ranch. 1
- verb with object breed to cause or be the source of; engender; give rise to: Dirt breeds disease. Stagnant water breeds mosquitoes. 1
- verb with object breed to develop by training or education; bring up; rear: He was born and bred a gentleman. 1
- verb with object breed Energy. to produce more fissile nuclear fuel than is consumed in a reactor. 1
- verb with object breed to impregnate; mate: Breed a strong mare with a fast stallion and hope for a Derby winner. 1
- verb without object breed to produce offspring: Many animals breed in the spring. 1
- verb without object breed to be engendered or produced; grow; develop: Bacteria will not breed in alcohol. 1
- verb without object breed to cause the birth of young, as in raising stock. 1
- verb without object breed to be pregnant. 1
- noun breed Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans. 1
- noun breed lineage; stock; strain: She comes from a fine breed of people. 1
- noun breed sort; kind; group: Scholars are a quiet breed. 1