Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - breed
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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
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I. verb (bred; ~ing) Etymology: Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan; akin to Old English brōd brood Date: before 12th century transitive verb to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation, 2. beget 1, produce, engender , to propagate (plants or animals) sexually and usually under controlled conditions , 4. bring up, nurture , to inculcate by training , 5. mate IV,3, to mate with ; inseminate, impregnate 2, to produce (a fissionable element) by bombarding a nonfissionable element with neutrons from a radioactive element, intransitive verb 1. to produce offspring by sexual union, copulate, mate, to propagate animals or plants, II. noun Date: 1553 a group of usually domesticated animals or plants presumably related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characters, a number of persons of the same stock, class, kind ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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