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breed 音標拼音: [br'id] vt. 繁殖,飼養;教養,撫養
vi. 繁殖
n. 品種,種類 繁殖,飼養;教養,撫養繁殖品種,種類 breed n 1: 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: { breed}, { strain}, { stock}] 2: a special type; " Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs" v 1: call forth [ synonym: { engender}, { breed}, { spawn}] 2: copulate with a female, used especially of horses; " The horse covers the mare" [ synonym: { breed}, { cover}] 3: cause to procreate ( animals); " She breeds dogs" 4: have young ( animals) or reproduce ( organisms); " pandas rarely breed in captivity"; " These bacteria reproduce" [ synonym: { breed}, { multiply}] Breed \ Breed\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Bred}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Breeding}.] [ OE. breden, AS. br[= e] dan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from br[= o] d brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. br[" u] ten. See { Brood}.] 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. [ 1913 Webster] Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. [ 1913 Webster] To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. -- Everett. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. [ 1913 Webster] But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. -- Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster] His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. [ 1913 Webster] Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To raise, as any kind of stock. [ 1913 Webster] 7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Children would breed their teeth with less danger. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct. [ 1913 Webster]
Breed \ Breed\, n. 1. A race or variety of men or other animals ( or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. [ 1913 Webster] Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England' s breed. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Greyhounds of the best breed. -- Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities. [ 1913 Webster] Are these the breed of wits so wondered at? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] This courtesy is not of the right breed. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A number produced at once; a brood. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Note: Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to men. [ 1913 Webster]
Breed \ Breed\, v. i. 1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. [ 1913 Webster] That they breed abundantly in the earth. -- Gen. viii. 17. [ 1913 Webster] The mother had never bred before. -- Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster] Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams? Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. [ 1913 Webster] Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To raise a breed; to get progeny. [ 1913 Webster] The kind of animal which you wish to breed from. -- Gardner. [ 1913 Webster] { To breed in and in}, to breed from animals of the same stock that are closely related. [ 1913 Webster] 261 Moby Thesaurus words for " breed": accrue, accumulate, advance, affiliation, animal kingdom, apparentation, appear, appreciate, apprentice, arise, author, balloon, be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child, bear, beget, birth, bloat, blood, bloodline, boom, branch, brand, break, break in, breed true, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring to effect, bring to pass, bring up, broaden, brood, call into being, carry, carry young, cast, cause, character, children, clan, class, coin, color, common ancestry, conceive, concoct, condition, consanguinity, contrive, cook up, copulate, cover, create, crescendo, crossbreed, cultivate, culture, deme, denomination, derivation, descendants, descent, description, design, designation, develop, devise, direct line, discipline, discover, distaff side, do, dream up, drill, effect, effectuate, engender, establish, evolve, exercise, extraction, fabricate, family, farm, father, fatten, feather, feed, female line, fetch up, filiation, fit, folk, form, foster, found, frame, fruit, gain, gain strength, generate, genre, gens, genus, gestate, get, get ahead, get up, give being to, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, go up, grain, grandchildren, great- grandchildren, groom, grow, hatch, heirs, hostages to fortune, house, house- train, housebreak, ilk, improve, improvise, inaugurate, inbreed, increase, incubate, induce, inheritors, institute, intensify, invent, issue, keep, kidney, kids, kin, kind, label, lick into shape, line, line of descent, lineage, little ones, lot, make, make do with, make love, make up, male line, manner, mark, matriclan, mature, mint, mold, mother, mount, multiply, muster up, nation, nature, new generation, number, nurse, nurture, occasion, offspring, order, originate, outbreed, patriclan, people, persuasion, phratry, phyle, phylum, plan, plant kingdom, posterity, practice, prepare, procreate, produce, progenerate, progeny, proliferate, propagate, put in tune, put to school, race, raise, ranch, ready, realize, rear, rehearse, reproduce, reproduce in kind, rise, rising generation, run, run up, seed, send to school, sept, set, set afloat, set on foot, set up, shape, shoot up, side, sire, sit, snowball, sons, sort, spawn, spear side, species, spindle side, spread, stamp, stem, stirps, stock, strain, strengthen, strike out, stripe, style, succession, swell, sword side, take in hand, the like of, the likes of, think out, think up, totem, train, treasures, tribe, type, variety, wax, widen, work, work up, younglings, youngsters
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