Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - breed
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Breed
breed
I. verb (bred; ~ing) Etymology: Middle English breden, from Old English bredan; akin to Old English brod brood Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation 2. a. beget 1 b. produce, engender despair often ~s violence 3. to propagate (plants or animals) sexually and usually under controlled conditions bred several strains of corn together to produce a superior variety 4. a. bring up, nurture born and bred in the country b. to inculcate by training ~ good manners into one's children 5. a. mate IV,3 b. to mate with ; inseminate c. impregnate 2 6. to produce (a fissionable element) by bombarding a nonfissionable element with neutrons from a radioactive element intransitive verb 1. a. to produce offspring by sexual union b. copulate, mate 2. to propagate animals or plants II. noun Date: 1553 1. a group of usually domesticated animals or plants presumably related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characters 2. a number of persons of the same stock 3. class, kind a new ~ of athlete
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v. & n. --v. (past and past part. bred) 1 tr. & intr. bear, generate (offspring). 2 tr. & intr. propagate or cause to propagate; raise (livestock). 3 tr. a yield, produce; result in (war breeds famine). b spread (discontent bred by rumour). 4 intr. arise; spread (disease breeds in the Tropics). 5 tr. bring up; train (bred to the law; Hollywood breeds stars). 6 tr. Physics create (fissile material) by nuclear reaction. --n. 1 a stock of animals or plants within a species, having a similar appearance, and usu. developed by deliberate selection. 2 a race; a lineage. 3 a sort, a kind. Phrases and idioms bred and born = born and bred. bred in the bone hereditary. breeder reactor a nuclear reactor that can create more fissile material than it consumes. breed in mate with or marry near relations. Derivatives breeder n. Etymology: OE bredan: rel. to BROOD ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) воспроизводить (ядерное топливо) 2) бтх скрещивать, заниматься селекцией 3) с.-х. порода выращивать породу 4) с.-х. сорт выращивать сорт ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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1. гл. 1) разводить 2) выводить 3) выращивать 4) размножаться, расти - breed cattle 2. сущ. порода - new breed of cattle ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1) порода 2) потомство, поколение 3) сорт 4) размножаться; давать приплод 5) вынашивать (детёнышей); высиживать (цыплят); выводить (птенцов) 6) воспитывать, обучать to breed true ген. — размножаться в чистоте – borderline breed – fancy breed – mixed breed – native breed – parental breed – pure breed ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. порода a new breed of cattle —- новая порода рогатого скота people of true English breed —- истинные англичане 2. потомство, поколение 3. сорт, род, категория thinkers of much the same breed —- мыслители одного и того же направления men of the same breed —- люди одного толка 4. ам. разг. пренебр. полукровка 5. размножаться, плодиться; давать приплод to breed true —- давать породистый приплод to breed like rabbits —- плодиться как кролики, быстро размножаться 6. вынашивать (детенышей); высиживать (цыплят); выводить (птенцов) 7. диал. быть беременной 8. разводить to breed cattle —- разводить рогатый скот the pond breeds fish —- в пруду водится рыба 9. воспитывать, обучать to breed smb. to the law —- дать кому-л. юридическое образование 10. порождать, вызывать to breed wars —- порождать войны war breeds misery and ruin —- война приносит нищету и разорение Id: to breed in and in —- заключать браки между родственниками из поколения в поколение Id: to breed out —- воздерживаться от родственных браков; проводить селекцию; искоренять Id: cruelty has not been yet bred out of the human species —- жестокость еще не искоренена в людях Id: what is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh —- посл. природу не скроешь ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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true давать породистый приплод BREED like rabbits быстро размножаться BREED 1. noun 1) порода, племя 2) потомство, поколение 2. v. 1) выводить, разводить (животных); вскармливать 2) высиживать (птенцов) 3) воспитывать, обучать 4) размножаться - breed true 5) порождать; вызывать to breed in and in - заключать браки между родственниками ...Англо-русский словарь
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(breeds, breeding, bred) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. 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. N-COUNT 2. 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. VERB: V n, be V-ed to-inf see also cross-breed • breeding There is potential for selective breeding for better yields. N-UNCOUNT 3. When animals breed, they have babies. Frogs will usually breed in any convenient pond... The area now attracts over 60 species of breeding birds. VERB: V, V-ing • breeding During the breeding season the birds come ashore. N-UNCOUNT: oft N n 4. 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 VERB: V n, V n 5. 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 N-COUNT: usu sing, with supp 6. see also breeding, ill-bred, pure-bred, well-bred 7. Someone who was born and bred in a place was born there and grew up there. I was born and bred in the highlands... PHRASE 8. familiarity breeds contempt: see familiarity ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~1 v past tense and past participle bred, 1 if animals breed they have babies (Eagles breed during the cooler months of the year.) 2 to keep animals or plants in order to produce babies or new plants, or in order to develop new or better animals or plants (commercially bred animals) 3 to cause a particular feeling or condition (living conditions that breed violence and despair) 4 breed like rabbits to produce a lot of babies quickly, especially more than you think is desirable (- see also well-bred) ~2 n 1 a type of animal or plant, especially one that people have kept to breed, such as cats, dogs, and farm animals (Spaniels are my favourite breed of dog.) 2 a particular kind of person or type of thing (a rare/dying breed) (Honest salesmen are a rare breed nowadays. | a new breed of the first of a new breed of satellites) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- O.E. bredan "bring young to birth, carry," from W.Gmc. *brodjan, from *brod- "fetus, hatchling," from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat." Original notion of the word was incubation, warming to hatch. Breeding "good manners" is from 1596. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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