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Keeper vs Breeder - What's the difference?

keeper | breeder |

As nouns the difference between keeper and breeder

is that keeper is one who keeps something while breeder is a person who breeds plants or animals professionally.

keeper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who keeps something.
  • Finders keepers ; losers weepers.
  • (slang) A person or thing worth keeping.
  • You can throw out all the blurry photos, but the one with her and her daughter is certainly a keeper .
  • * 2005 , , Volume 122, Issues 7-12, page 101,
  • When he brought me home and volunteered to come with me while I walked my dog, Max, I knew he was a keeper .
  • * 2008 , Jennifer Zomar, A Candle for the Children , page 28,
  • We hadn't dated for long when he said those three magic words: "I'll cook tonight." I knew he was a keeper .
  • * 2008 , Sherri Erwin, Naughty Or Nice , page 247,
  • "Fine," I agreed. “But, Josh, my sister and I can handle it. You sit, watch football with the guys.”
    “I would rather stick close to you. Besides, I love cleaning up.”
    “I knew he was a keeper ,” Gran said.
  • A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
  • * Bible
  • And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper ?
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=4 citation , passage=The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected.}}
  • (sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=June 4 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 2 - 2 Switzerland , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=England should have capitalised on their growing momentum to win, but Darren Bent failed to reproduce the finishing touches that have brought him goals in three successive appearances. He was blocked by Diego Benaglio when he was played in by Wilshere then blazed over the top of an open goal late on after Young's shot was saved by Switzerland's keeper .}}
  • A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits in the frame and receives the bolt.
  • (American football) An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.
  • One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
  • * Bible, Titus ii. 5
  • discreet; chaste; keepers at home
  • * 1971 , H. R. F. Keating, The Strong Man
  • I was not altogether surprised: they seemed to be, even more than people in the surrounding wolds, stolid keepers -to-themselves, impossible to stir, dourly determined to stick to the firm routine of their lives
  • A fruit that keeps well.
  • * Downing
  • The Roxbury Russet is a good keeper .

    Derived terms

    * account-keeper * beekeeper * bookkeeper * bridgekeeper * brothel keeper * deer-keeper * doorkeeper * dungeon-keeper * forestkeeper * gamekeeper * gaolkeeper * gatekeeper * goalkeeper * greenskeeper * groundkeeper * groundskeeper * harem-keeper * hotelkeeper * housekeeper * innkeeper * jailkeeper * keykeeper * lighthouse keeper * lock-keeper * menagerie keeper * park keeper * ring-keeper * salad keeper * scorekeeper * seal keeper * shopkeeper * storekeeper * tally-keeper * timekeeper * watchkeeper * wicketkeeper * zookeeper

    breeder

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who breeds plants or animals professionally.
  • (gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
  • Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock.
  • 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.
  • * 1729 :
  • 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 .
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * stockbreeder