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 .
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Yet every mother breeds not sons alike . --
Shak .
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If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog . --
Shak .
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2 .
To take care of in infancy ,
and through the age of youth ;
to bring up ;
to nurse and foster .
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To bring thee forth with pain ,
with care to breed .
--
Dryden .
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Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness .
--
Everett .
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3 .
To educate ;
to instruct ;
to form by education ;
to train ;
--
sometimes followed by up .
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But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant .
--
Bp .
Burnet .
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His farm may not remove his children too far from him ,
or the trade he breeds them up in . --
Locke .
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4 .
To engender ;
to cause ;
to occasion ;
to originate ;
to produce ;
as ,
to breed a storm ;
to breed disease .
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Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment . --
Milton .
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5 .
To give birth to ;
to be the native place of ;
as ,
a pond breeds fish ;
a northern country breeds stout men .
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6 .
To raise ,
as any kind of stock .
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7 .
To produce or obtain by any natural process . [
Obs .]
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Children would breed their teeth with less danger .
--
Locke .
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Syn :
To engender ;
generate ;
beget ;
produce ;
hatch ;
originate ;
bring up ;
nourish ;
train ;
instruct .
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Breed \
Breed \,
n .
1 .
A race or variety of men or other animals (
or of plants ),
perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance .
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Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England '
s breed .
--
Shak .
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Greyhounds of the best breed . --
Carpenter .
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2 .
Class ;
sort ;
kind ; --
of men ,
things ,
or qualities .
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Are these the breed of wits so wondered at ? --
Shak .
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This courtesy is not of the right breed . --
Shak .
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3 .
A number produced at once ;
a brood . [
Obs .]
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Note :
Breed is usually applied to domestic animals ;
species or variety to wild animals and to plants ;
and race to men .
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Breed \
Breed \,
v .
i .
1 .
To bear and nourish young ;
to reproduce or multiply itself ;
to be pregnant .
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That they breed abundantly in the earth . --
Gen .
viii .
17 .
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The mother had never bred before . --
Carpenter .
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Ant .
Is your gold and silver ewes and rams ?
Shy .
I can not tell .
I make it breed as fast .
--
Shak .
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2 .
To be formed in the parent or dam ;
to be generated ,
or to grow ,
as young before birth .
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3 .
To have birth ;
to be produced or multiplied .
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Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them . --
Shak .
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4 .
To raise a breed ;
to get progeny .
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The kind of animal which you wish to breed from .
--
Gardner .
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{
To breed in and in },
to breed from animals of the same stock that are closely related .
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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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