Breed vs Incubate - What's the difference?
breed | incubate |
To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
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* Shakespeare
Of animals, to mate.
To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
To arrange the mating of specific animals.
To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
* Dryden
* Everett
To yield or result in.
* Milton
(obsolete) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up .
* Bishop Burnet
* John Locke
To produce or obtain by any natural process.
* John Locke
To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
* Shakespeare
All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
A race or lineage.
(informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
* 1975:' , ''Adventures in Prayer'', New York, Ballantine Books, December 1976, page 46 - Part of our problem in praying for our children, he suggested, is the time lage, the necessary slow maturation of our prayers. But that's the way of God's rhythm in nature. For instance, the hen must patiently sit on her eggs to ' incubate them before the baby chicks hatch.
* 1985:' , ''Blood Meridian'', New York, Vintage International, May 1992, page 3 - The mother dead these fourteen years did ' incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off.
* 2004:' , ''The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World'' New York, Simon & Schuster, 2004, page 50 - The female cichlid fish are called "mouth breeders," which means they ' incubate eggs in their mouth.
To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.
* 1992:' , ''The Songwriters Idea Book: 40 Strategies to Excite Your Imagination, Help You Design Distinctive Songs, and Keep Your Creative Flow'', Cincinnati, Writer's Digest Books, 1992, page 96. - When you've got your theme–let the concept ' incubate . Walk around with it, sleep on it.
In lang=en terms the difference between breed and incubate
is that breed is to have birth; to be produced or multiplied while incubate is to incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.As verbs the difference between breed and incubate
is that breed is to produce offspring sexually; to bear young while incubate is to brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.As a noun breed
is all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.breed
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Alternative forms
* breede (archaic)Verb
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Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- a pond breeds''' fish; a northern country '''breeds stout men
- Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.
- to bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed
- born and bred on the verge of the wilderness
- Lest the place / And my quaint habits breed astonishment.
- No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.
- His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.
- Children would breed their teeth with less danger.
- Heavens rain grace / On that which breeds between them.
Synonyms
* (take care of in infancy and through childhood) raise, bring up, rearDerived terms
* breeder * breeding * breed in the boneNoun
(en noun)- a breed of tulip
- a breed of animal
- People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed .