Brooding vs Breeder - What's the difference?
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(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
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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.
Breeder is a related term of brooding.
As nouns the difference between brooding and breeder
is that brooding is a spell of brooding; the time when someone broods while breeder is a person who breeds plants or animals professionally.As an adjective brooding
is broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.As a verb brooding
is present participle of lang=en.brooding
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A brooding hen can be aggressive.
- You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep .
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)citation
breeder
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(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 .
