to breed

Definition von to breed im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: To make sure that one's young grow up to adulthood; To yield or result in
familiarity breeds contempt.; A race or lineage; To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities; a lineage or race of people 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"; {n} a cast, kind, sort, race, offspring, number; {v} to hatch, contrive, raise, bring up, seed, multiply; a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"; Category of horse sharing characteristics of size, color, and conformation, denoting a common ancestry Domestic breeds are selectively bred long enough to ensure consistent production of defined stock, and are registered by a governing society; familiarity breeds contempt: see familiarity; To sexually produce offspring; To form fissile nuclei, usually as a result of neutron capture, possibly followed by radioactive decay; All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies eg. a breed of tulip, a breed of animal; This is a distinct genetic entity Recognized members of a breed are in the official studbook; A genetically pure line having similar conformation and able to produce offspring with the same characteristics; A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance; A breed of a pet animal or farm animal is a particular type of it. For example, terriers are a breed of dog. rare breeds of cattle Certain breeds are more dangerous than others; {f} reproduce; raise animals; guide, nurture; cause; Of animals, to mate; half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents); of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"; To raise a breed; to get progeny; To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation's qualities; Someone who was born and bred in a place was born there and grew up there. I was born and bred in the highlands; Unprotected anal sex which results with semen inside the rectum; Used for wines of high quality, with elegance and finesse; A race or strain cultivated by humans; a lineage or race of people; To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster; To have birth; to be produced or multiplied; To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up; A number produced at once; a brood; copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare"; To arrange the mating of specific animals; To produce or obtain by any natural process; To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch; 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. He lived alone, breeding horses and dogs These dogs are bred to fight. see also cross-breed + breeding breed·ing There is potential for selective breeding for better yields; color heading hidden? label label-color pen-down? shape size who (read-only) xcor ycor Patches; To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease; 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. Sue is one of the new breed of British women squash players who are making a real impact The new breed of walking holidays puts the emphasis on enjoyment, not endurance = strain see also breeding, ill-bred, pure-bred, well-bred; When animals breed, they have babies. Frogs will usually breed in any convenient pond The area now attracts over 60 species of breeding birds. + breeding breed·ing During the breeding season the birds come ashore; If you say that something breeds bad feeling or bad behaviour, you mean that it causes bad feeling or bad behaviour to develop. If they are unemployed it's bound to breed resentment Violence breeds violence. = create; To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities; 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"; To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth; A variety of animal within a species There are many breeds of dogs, but they all belong to the same species (Canis familiaris); To produce more of a species Animals have babies and plants produce seeds or spores; to ejaculate inside the rectum; call forth; To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men; Term reserved for wines from the best grape varieties, the so-called "noble grapes" Denotes wines judged to have reached classical expectations of aroma, balance, structure and varietal character; copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare; Class; sort; kind; of men, things, or qualities; {i} kind, sort, species, race, stock, pedigree; a group of animals or plants related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characteristics Taxonomically, a species can have numerous breeds; have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"; To raise, as any kind of stock; To make sure that ones young grow up to adulthood; To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant; Similar to good bloodlines and handling, as in racehorses; the result of soil, grapes and vinification techniques that combine to produce depth and distinctive character in a wine