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Breeding   /brˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Breeding

noun
1.
Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression.  Synonyms: genteelness, gentility.
2.
The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior).  Synonyms: education, training.
3.
Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community.  Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing.
4.
The production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization.
5.
The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring.  Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction.
adjective
1.
Producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring.  "Retained a few bulls for breeding purposes"



Breed

verb
(past & past part. bred; pres. part. breeding)
1.
Call forth.  Synonyms: engender, spawn.
2.
Copulate with a female, used especially of horses.  Synonym: cover.
3.
Cause to procreate (animals).
4.
Have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms).  Synonym: multiply.  "These bacteria reproduce"



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"Breeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... numerous and powerful Navajo Indians. They were not so much dreaded by us, their Reservation being further away, and they then being of a peaceful disposition, devoted to horse and sheep breeding and ...
— Ranching, Sport and Travel • Thomas Carson

... Larry waited, two tall, sturdy, well-groomed, fine-looking youths, bearing the indefinable stamp of good birth and breeding, the inheritance of a long line of clean strong men and gentle women—the kind of thing not forged in one generation but ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper

... for because the world is populous, And heere is not a Creature, but my selfe, I cannot do it: yet Ile hammer't out. My Braine, Ile proue the Female to my Soule, My Soule, the Father: and these two beget A generation of still breeding Thoughts; And these same Thoughts, people this Little World In humors, like the people of this world, For no thought is contented. The better sort, As thoughts of things Diuine, are intermixt With scruples, and do set the Faith it selfe Against the Faith: as thus: Come litle ones: ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... to the English people the choice of its fate is very near now. It may spasmodically defend its property with iron walls a fathom thick, a few years longer—a very few. No walls will defend either it, or its havings, against the multitude that is breeding and spreading faster than the clouds, over the habitable earth. We shall be allowed to live by small pedler's business, and iron-mongery—since we have chosen those for our line of life—as long as we are found ...
— The Queen of the Air • John Ruskin

... demonstration farms or experiment stations are maintained at convenient points. Thirty-seven practical stockmen have also been employed to give special attention to this part of the work, and the Indians are said to be cooperating intelligently in the effort to improve their breeding stock. ...
— The Indian Today - The Past and Future of the First American • Charles A. Eastman


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