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Breed vs Upbringing - What's the difference?

breed | upbringing |

As nouns the difference between breed and upbringing

is that breed is all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies while upbringing is the traits acquired during one's childhood training.

As a verb breed

is to produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

breed

English

Alternative forms

* breede (archaic)

Verb

  • To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
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  • 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 ----

    upbringing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The traits acquired during one's childhood training
  • The raising or training of a child.
    • Through her upbringing , Mildred's father had carefully programmed her to expect very little from life.

    Related terms

    * bring up

    Anagrams

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