Breed vs Replicate - What's the difference?
breed | replicate |
To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
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, title= To give birth to; to be the native place of.
* Shakespeare
Of animals, to mate.
To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
To arrange the mating of specific animals.
To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
* Dryden
* Everett
To yield or result in.
* Milton
(obsolete) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up .
* Bishop Burnet
* John Locke
To produce or obtain by any natural process.
* John Locke
To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
* Shakespeare
All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
A race or lineage.
(informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
To make a copy (replica) of.
(label) To repeat (an experiment or trial) with a consistent result.
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(botany, zoology) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.
As verbs the difference between breed and replicate
is that breed is to produce offspring sexually; to bear young while replicate is to make a copy (replica) of.As nouns the difference between breed and replicate
is that breed is all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies while replicate is an outcome of a procedure.As an adjective replicate is
(botany|zoology) folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.breed
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Alternative forms
* breede (archaic)Verb
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- a pond breeds''' fish; a northern country '''breeds stout men
- Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.
- to bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed
- born and bred on the verge of the wilderness
- Lest the place / And my quaint habits breed astonishment.
- No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.
- His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.
- Children would breed their teeth with less danger.
- Heavens rain grace / On that which breeds between them.
Synonyms
* (take care of in infancy and through childhood) raise, bring up, rearDerived terms
* breeder * breeding * breed in the boneNoun
(en noun)- a breed of tulip
- a breed of animal
- People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed .
Anagrams
* English irregular verbs ----replicate
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Verb
(en-verb)Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.}}
Adjective
(en adjective)- a replicate leaf or petal
- the replicate margin of a shell