Breed vs Seed - What's the difference?
breed | seed |
To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
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, title= To give birth to; to be the native place of.
* 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.
(senseid)(countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
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, title= (countable, botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
(uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.
(uncountable) Semen.
(countable) A precursor.
(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
# The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
# The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
# Initialization state of a . (seed number)
# Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
Offspring, descendants, progeny.
* 1590 , , II.x:
Race; generation; birth.
* Waller
To plant or sow an area with seeds.
To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
* Ben Jonson
To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
(sports, games) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).
To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
In lang=en terms the difference between breed and seed
is that breed is to have birth; to be produced or multiplied while seed is to start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.As verbs the difference between breed and seed
is that breed is to produce offspring sexually; to bear young while seed is to plant or sow an area with seeds.As nouns the difference between breed and seed
is that breed is all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies while seed is (senseid)(countable) a fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.breed
English
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 .
Anagrams
* English irregular verbs ----seed
English
Noun
(wikipedia seed)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.
- The rookie was a surprising top seed .
- If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.
- The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.
- the seed of Abraham
- Next him king Leyr in happie peace long raind, / But had no issue male him to succeed, / But three faire daughters, which were well vptraind, / In all that seemed fit for kingly seed
- Of mortal seed they were not held.
Usage notes
The common use of seed differs from the botanical use. The “seeds” of sunflowers are botanically fruits.Derived terms
* crack seed * go to seed * seedcake * seedling * seed potato * seedy * spill one's seedVerb
(en verb)- I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
- a sable mantle seeded with waking eyes
- A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
- The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
- The programmer seeded fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.
- The tennis player seeded into the quarters.