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breed English

Meaning breed meaning

What does breed mean?
Definitions in simple English

breed Noun

— A breed can be a type of animal or plant; a species or race. This breed of dog likes to bark more than most.

breed Verb

— To breed is to mate and produce offspring (children). If a donkey breeds with a horse, then the offspring will be a mix between the two: a mule. — When something breeds, it is created or resulted in. Icy roads breed car crashes.

breed

— noun (= strain) 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 — verb (= cover) copulate with a female, used especially of horses The horse covers the mare — verb (= engender) call forth — verb cause to procreate (animals) She breeds dogs — verb have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) pandas rarely breed in captivity These bacteria reproduce — noun a special type Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs

Synonyms breed synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as breed?

breed English » English

raise rear race bring up reproduce multiply educate grow propagate keep spawn kind species procreate stock strain sort produce type nurture impregnate give birth engender brood train give birth to generate beget bear sire propagation mate cultivate bring forth variety stamp raise children originate litter lift lever incubate increase ilk hoist heave hatch genus foster form

Topics breed topics

What do people use breed to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal

Animal life cycle

  • What words refer to the sexual behavior of animals?
    mate harem breed
Person Life

Birth
Person Life Birth

Fertile, infertile
Work and occupation

Animal husbandry
Grammar Connected with, related Dependency relations

Cause
Social behavior Relationships

Types of people

  • What words refer to a person whose parents are from two different races?
    half-breed

Conjugation breed conjugation

How do you conjugate breed?

breed · verb

Examples breed examples

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Simple sentences

Rabbits breed quickly.
We will be able to breed cows and sheep, for example.
Some animals will not breed when kept in cages.
What's your favorite breed of dog?
Feed a pigeon, breed a rat.
The crocodile, which produces only male young in hotter weather, might die out too because there will be no females to breed.
Bacteria will not breed in alcohol.
Rats breed rapidly.
The Great Dane is a breed of domestic dog known for its giant size.
The British captured Breed's Hill.
Cats of that breed have no tail.
It's a new breed.
What breed is your dog?

Movie subtitles

His dog, Kaiser, once took Best in Breed.
Beautiful breed.
Injuns have never yet prevented our breed of men from travelling' into the setting' sun. - Go on. Lead the way.
Coleman, you're the breed of man that would follow a trail to the end.
I spent my life mixing with your breed. I don't like it.
They breed like rabbits.
For thousands of years. men have believed in an enclave of islands. known as the Forbidden Islands. where mermaids breed.
Because I know Ashley Wilkes and his honorable breed.
Oh, they breed female bicycles now, didn't you know?
Suffering does not breed justice.
And I'll buy a ranch, and we'll breed bulls and pheasants.
And please, Davos at Shepheard's Hotel, no pictures of the widow of Windsor or any of her breed.
Let him be punished, sovereign, lest example breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
For there the sun shall greet them and draw their honours reeking up to heaven, leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime, the smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.
I am a member of a new breed, chosen by the gods.
Injuns have never yet prevented our breed of men from travelin' into the setting' sun.
Why, these damn chinese breed like rabbits. We're all right, em.
I spent my life mixing with your breed.
Just what we need to breed sons for Russia.
They're a peculiar breed!
I now cross-breed on a large scale with Caspian Longear.
Best man I ever knew. Don't breed men like that nowadays.
One of a disapearing breed.
I wouldn't do business with your breed if I had to go without horses!
Why you blackmailing, half-breed.
It's a vanishing breed.
Doctors and wives, they're the same breed.
Let him be punish'd, sovereign. Lest example breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
I've been watching you. making calf's eyes at that half-breed.
No woman can tie onto me like that. least of all a bobtail little half-breed like you.
We had to eliminate things that breed unrest and aggression.
We're a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.
A true man, like a true horse, runs with his breed.
There's another one of the same breed.
What breed?

News and current affairs

In private conversation, one might even take him for a liberal - one of a new breed of young and well-educated propaganda officials with an increasingly higher threshold of political sensitivity.
So a new breed of politicians and a new constituency of voters hold the balance of power.
It is unemployment and economic insecurity that breed xenophobia and support for extreme rightist movements across the continent.
The resulting inequality will probably be hard to reconcile with a viable federalism and will likely breed resentment among small EU members and candidate countries, putting expansion at greater risk.
As Algeria in the 1990's showed, exclusion of the Islamists is a recipe for disaster, while inclusion can breed moderation.
We have learned the hard way that closed political systems breed resentment and extremism aimed against the interests of America, the West, and, indeed, the entire world.
Syria's implosion, and the chaos and extremism that are likely to breed there, will threaten the entire Middle East: the stability of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, Iran, and Saudi Arabia hangs in the balance.
Only a dramatic move by external powers can still save Gaza from becoming a second Mogadishu and both Palestinians and Israelis from a total war that would only breed more rage and desperation.
The practice of presenting technocratic faits accomplis to national parliaments will only breed deeper resentments.
Does extreme poverty breed violence and ultimately revolution?
In reality, these conflicts are not frozen; they are festering wounds that breed corruption and organized crime. They inhibit democratization and incite instability.
Nowadays, ideological differences between left and right are blurred. So a new breed of politicians and a new constituency of voters hold the balance of power.
Applying epidemiological techniques to finding, isolating, and disrupting the transmission of violence and the radical ideologies that breed it has already proved successful in the US context.
In Africa, this will not be possible until a new breed of genuinely public-spirited leaders emerges.
Viewing the current conflict between such formidable military powers as Israel and Iran through a similar lens can only breed untold catastrophe.
What historians have known for 2,000 years - and what the eighteenth century's classical economists also knew - suddenly struck the new breed of mathematical economists in the 1990's like a flash of lightning: prosperity depends on good government.
In an age of nationalism and socially mobilized populations, foreign occupation, as Eisenhower wisely concluded in the 1950s, is bound to breed resentment.
They are a restless breed, flitting round the world's trouble spots, pen and camera poised.
Just as Russia must deal with a growing wave of fundamentalism that its own policies have fueled, the summary condemnation of Muslims in America will breed more alienation and retribution from within.
If these two countries' mutual hostility is not reined in, and a fundamentalist Afghanistan continues to provide the strategic depth through which Pakistan threatens its sworn Indian enemies, the current disaster might still breed defeat.

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