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Raising vs Brood - What's the difference?

raising | brood |

As verbs the difference between raising and brood

is that raising is present participle of lang=en while brood is to keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

As nouns the difference between raising and brood

is that raising is elevation while brood is the young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

raising

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Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Elevation.
  • Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
  • Recruitment.
  • Collection or gathering, especially of money.
  • (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
    • to help at a raising
  • The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.

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    brood

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
    • As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
  • (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
    • Flocks of the airy brood , / (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
  • (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

    • See also

    * flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin * cicada

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
    • In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
  • To protect.
    • Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
  • To dwell upon moodily and at length.
    • He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
  • * Tennyson
    • when with downcast eyes we muse and brood

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