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Breed is a related term of occasion.


In lang=en terms the difference between breed and occasion

is that breed is to have birth; to be produced or multiplied while occasion is to give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.

As verbs the difference between breed and occasion

is that breed is to produce offspring sexually; to bear young while occasion is to give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.

As nouns the difference between breed and occasion

is that breed is all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies while occasion is a favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.

breed

English

Alternative forms

* breede (archaic)

Verb

  • To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
    • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • To give birth to; to be the native place of.
    • a pond breeds''' fish; a northern country '''breeds stout men
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.
  • 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
    • to bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed
  • * Everett
    • born and bred on the verge of the wilderness
  • To yield or result in.
  • * Milton
    • Lest the place / And my quaint habits breed astonishment.
  • (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
    • No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.
  • * John Locke
    • His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.
  • To produce or obtain by any natural process.
  • * John Locke
    • Children would breed their teeth with less danger.
  • To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Heavens rain grace / On that which breeds between them.

    Synonyms

    * (take care of in infancy and through childhood) raise, bring up, rear

    Derived terms

    * breeder * breeding * breed in the bone

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
    • a breed of tulip
    a breed of animal
  • A race or lineage.
  • (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
    • People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed .

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----

    occasion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
  • * Bible, Rom. vii. 11
    • Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me.
  • * Waller
    • I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring / Him to his death.
  • The time when something happens.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
  • An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
  • Something which causes something else; a cause.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 130:
    • it were too vile to say, and scarce to be beleeved, what we endured: but the occasion was our owne, for want of providence, industrie and government [...].
  • (obsolete) An occurrence or incident.
  • A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. }}
  • Need; requirement, necessity.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • after we have served ourselves and our own occasions
  • * Burke
    • when my occasions took me into France
  • A special event or function.
  • A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
  • * Spenser
    • Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, / And entertain with her occasions sly.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.
    • it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity

    Related terms

    * occasional

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