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Breeding vs Mating - What's the difference?

breeding | mating |

As nouns the difference between breeding and mating

is that breeding is the process through which propagation, growth or development occurs while mating is pairing of organisms for copulation.

As adjectives the difference between breeding and mating

is that breeding is of, relating to or used for breeding while mating is fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.

As verbs the difference between breeding and mating

is that breeding is present participle of lang=en while mating is present participle of lang=en.

breeding

English

(wikipedia breeding)

Noun

(-)
  • The process through which propagation, growth or development occurs.
  • * {{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, page=222, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • 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
    • She had her breeding at my father's charge.
  • Descent; pedigree; extraction.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding .
  • (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex, usually applied to gay pornography.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, relating to or used for breeding.
    • Your toothbrush is a breeding ground for bacteria.

    Derived terms

    * breeding ground

    Verb

    (head)
    • Through genetic manipulation and harsh training, I am breeding a species of super-dogs to take over the world.

    Anagrams

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    mating

    English

    (wikipedia mating)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
  • * 1981 , Henry Foster, The Mouse in Biomedical Research (page 96)
    • The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

    Synonyms

    * pairing

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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