Breed vs Type - What's the difference?
breed | type |
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.
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=Lee A. Groat, volume=100, issue=2, page=128, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
* 2002 , Pat Conroy, The Great Santini , page 4:
An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
* 1872 , Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal , volume 3, page 116:
(printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
# (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
# (chiefly, uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
(biology) An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group.
Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
(biology) A blood group.
(theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
(computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
(fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
(chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
(mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed'' theory). (''Note : this to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
* Types, theory of. V.N. Grishin (originator), Encyclopedia of Mathematics . URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
To put text on paper using a typewriter.
To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
To determine the blood type of.
To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
* Tennyson
As verbs the difference between breed and type
is that breed is to produce offspring sexually; to bear young while type is to put text on paper using a typewriter.As nouns the difference between breed and type
is that breed is all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies while type is a grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.breed
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Alternative forms
* breede (archaic)Verb
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Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- 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 ----type
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Noun
(en noun)Gemstones, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.}}
- "I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe."
- Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
- The headline was set in bold type .
- The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
- Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type -theoretic systems.
- Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types .
Synonyms
* (grouping based on shared characteristics) category, class, genre, group, kind, sort, tribe * (computing theory) data type * (printing) sort * See alsoDerived terms
* antitype * archetype * blood type * built-in type * composite type * cotype * ideal type * movable type * normal type * primitive type * structured type * typeface * type-safe * typesetter * typewriter * typography * typology * typology * user-defined typeVerb
(typ)- The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
- Let us type them now in our own lives.