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breed

Verb

∙ To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
∙ To give birth to; to be the native place of. transitive
∙ Of animals, to mate.
∙ To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
∙ To arrange the mating of specific animals.
∙ To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
∙ To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
∙ To yield or result in.
∙ To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth. obsolete, intransitive
∙ To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up.
∙ To produce or obtain by any natural process.
∙ To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. intransitive

Noun

∙ All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
∙ A race or lineage.
∙ A group of people with shared characteristics. informal

BABYLON ENGLISH
breed n.
kind, sort, species, race, stock, pedigree
reproduce; raise animals; guide, nurture; cause

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
breed
breed
\breed\ (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. bred (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. breeding.] [oe. breden, as. brēdan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from brōd brood; akin to d. broeden to brood, ohg. bruoten, g. brüten. 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. if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog.
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. born and bred on the verge of the wilderness.
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. burnet. his farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.
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.
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.
similar words(4)

to breed in and in
half-breed
otter breed
cross breed

WORDNET 2.0
breed
Noun
1. a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"
(hypernym) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(derivation) multiply
2. 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"
(synonym) strain, stock
(hypernym) variety
(hyponym) bloodstock
(member-holonym) species
3. half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents)
(synonym) half-breed
(hypernym) half-caste
(hyponym) metis
(derivation) multiply
4. a lineage or race of people
(synonym) strain
(hypernym) ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
(derivation) multiply
Verb
1. call forth
(synonym) engender, spawn
(hypernym) cause, do, make
2. copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare"
(synonym) cover
(hypernym) copulate, mate, pair, couple
(verb-group) brood, hatch, cover, incubate
(classification) animal husbandry
3. of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"
(hypernym) produce, make, create
(hyponym) mongrelize, mongrelise
(derivation) strain, stock
4. have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"
(synonym) multiply
(hypernym) reproduce, procreate, multiply
(hyponym) pullulate
(derivation) half-breed

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Breed
A breed is a specific group of domestic animals having appearance (phenotype), homogeneous behavior, and/or other characteristics that distinguish it from other organisms of the same species and that were arrived at through selective breeding. Despite the centrality of the idea of "breeds" to animal husbandry and agriculture, no single, scientifically accepted definition of the term exists. A breed is therefore not an objective or biologically verifiable classification but is instead a term of art amongst groups of breeders who share a consensus around what qualities make some members of a given species members of a nameable subset.
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WIKTIONARY - Yabla

breed

Verb

∙ To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
∙ To give birth to; to be the native place of. transitive
∙ Of animals, to mate.
∙ To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
∙ To arrange the mating of specific animals.
∙ To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
∙ To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
∙ To yield or result in.
∙ To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth. obsolete, intransitive
∙ To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up.
∙ To produce or obtain by any natural process.
∙ To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. intransitive

Noun

∙ All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
∙ A race or lineage.
∙ A group of people with shared characteristics. informal

BABYLON ENGLISH
breed n.
kind, sort, species, race, stock, pedigree
reproduce; raise animals; guide, nurture; cause

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
breed
breed
\breed\ (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. bred (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. breeding.] [oe. breden, as. brēdan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from brōd brood; akin to d. broeden to brood, ohg. bruoten, g. brüten. 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. if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog.
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. born and bred on the verge of the wilderness.
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. burnet. his farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.
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.
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.
similar words(4)

to breed in and in
half-breed
otter breed
cross breed

WORDNET 2.0
breed
Noun
1. a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"
(hypernym) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(derivation) multiply
2. 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"
(synonym) strain, stock
(hypernym) variety
(hyponym) bloodstock
(member-holonym) species
3. half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents)
(synonym) half-breed
(hypernym) half-caste
(hyponym) metis
(derivation) multiply
4. a lineage or race of people
(synonym) strain
(hypernym) ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
(derivation) multiply
Verb
1. call forth
(synonym) engender, spawn
(hypernym) cause, do, make
2. copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare"
(synonym) cover
(hypernym) copulate, mate, pair, couple
(verb-group) brood, hatch, cover, incubate
(classification) animal husbandry
3. of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"
(hypernym) produce, make, create
(hyponym) mongrelize, mongrelise
(derivation) strain, stock
4. have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"
(synonym) multiply
(hypernym) reproduce, procreate, multiply
(hyponym) pullulate
(derivation) half-breed

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Breed
A breed is a specific group of domestic animals having appearance (phenotype), homogeneous behavior, and/or other characteristics that distinguish it from other organisms of the same species and that were arrived at through selective breeding. Despite the centrality of the idea of "breeds" to animal husbandry and agriculture, no single, scientifically accepted definition of the term exists. A breed is therefore not an objective or biologically verifiable classification but is instead a term of art amongst groups of breeders who share a consensus around what qualities make some members of a given species members of a nameable subset.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

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