Breeding vs Breeder - What's the difference?
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The process through which propagation, growth or development occurs.
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, title= The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
The act of copulation in animals.
The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
Nurture; education; formation of manners.
* Shakespeare
Descent; pedigree; extraction.
* Shakespeare
(gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex, usually applied to gay pornography.
Of, relating to or used for breeding.
A person who breeds plants or animals professionally.
(gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
A type of nuclear reactor that creates material suitable for the production of atomic weapons. (See Wikipedia's article on s.)
(slang, derogatory) a person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
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(cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.
As nouns the difference between breeding and breeder
is that breeding is the process through which propagation, growth or development occurs while breeder is a person who breeds plants or animals professionally.As a adjective breeding
is of, relating to or used for breeding.As a verb breeding
is (breed).breeding
English
(wikipedia breeding)Noun
(-)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, page=222, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- She had her breeding at my father's charge.
- Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding .
Adjective
(-)- Your toothbrush is a breeding ground for bacteria.
Derived terms
* breeding groundVerb
(head)- Through genetic manipulation and harsh training, I am breeding a species of super-dogs to take over the world.
Anagrams
*breeder
English
(wikipedia breeder)Noun
(en noun)- Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock.
- The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders'; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand ' breeders .
