breeding
(adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; “the breeding population”; “retained a few bulls for breeding purposes”
reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life
(noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
breeding
(noun) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing
(noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; “they debated whether nature or nurture was more important”
breeding, genteelness, gentility
(noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
education, training, breeding
(noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); “a woman of breeding and refinement”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
breeding (countable and uncountable, plural breedings)
Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
The act of copulation in animals.
The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
Nurture; education; formation of manners.
Descent; pedigree; extraction.
(gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex, usually applied to gay pornography.
breeding (not comparable)
Of, relating to or used for breeding.
breeding
present participle of breed
• beringed, bigender
Breeding (plural Breedings)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Breeding is the 6358th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5358 individuals. Breeding is most common among White (91.69%) individuals.
• beringed, bigender
Source: Wiktionary
Breed"ing, n.
1. The act or process of generating or bearing.
2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge. Shak.
4. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. Hume.
5. Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs.] Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. Shak. Close breeding, In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage.
– Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage.
– Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment.
Syn.
– Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See Education.
Breed, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bred; p. pr. & vb. n. Breeding.] Etym: [OE. breden, AS. bredan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from brod brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. brĂĽten. See Brood.]
1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. Shak.
2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. Dryden. Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. Everett.
3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. Bp. Burnet. His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke.
4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.
5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
6. To raise, as any kind of stock.
7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.] Children would breed their teeth with less danger. Locke.
Syn.
– To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct.
Breed, v. i.
1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. That they breed abundantly in the earth. Gen. viii. 17. The mother had never bred before. Carpenter. Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak.
2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
3. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them. Shak.
4. To raise a breed; to get progeny. The kind of animal which you wish to breed from. Gardner. To breed in and in, to breed from animals of the same stock that are closely related.
Breed, n.
1. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed. Shak. Greyhounds of the best breed. Carpenter.
2. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities. Are these the breed of wits so wondered at Shak. This courtesy is not of the right breed. Shak.
3. A number produced at once; a brood. [Obs.]
Note: Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to men.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 November 2024
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
