Generation vs Brood - What's the difference?
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The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.
* 1832 , (Charles Lyell), Principles of Geology , II:
The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
* 1626 , (Francis Bacon), Sylva Sylvarum :
* c. 1605 , (William Shakespeare), Timon of Athens , First Folio 1623, I.3:
A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
(obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
* 2008 , Edgar Thorpe, Objective English :
A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
* 2009 , Paul Deital, Harvey Deital and Abbey Deital, iPhone for Programmers :
(geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
A specific age range in which each person in that range can relate culturally to one another.
A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
* Bible, Luke xiii. 34
(uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
The children in one family.
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
* Chapman
(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
To protect.
To dwell upon moodily and at length.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Tennyson
As nouns the difference between generation and brood
is that generation is the fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation while brood is the young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.As a verb brood is
to keep an egg warm to make it hatch.generation
English
(wikipedia generation)Noun
(en noun)- The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations.
- So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.
- Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.
- Thy Mothers of my generation : what's she, if I be a Dogge?
- This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
- Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
- All generations and ages of the Christian church -
- Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.
- The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
- Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
- People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.
Derived terms
* alternate generation * generation gap * Generation X * spontaneous generationExternal links
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Noun
(en noun)- As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
- Flocks of the airy brood , / (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
See also
* flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin * cicadaVerb
(en verb)- In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
- Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
- He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
- Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
- when with downcast eyes we muse and brood