[0731] breed

[보카길라잡이]

v. bred, (br d) breed·ing, breeds
v. tr.

1. To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch.
2. To bring about; engender: “Admission of guilt tends to breed public sympathy” (Jonathan Alter).
3. 1. To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection: breed cattle.
   2. To develop new or improved strains in (organisms), chiefly through controlled mating and selection of offspring for desirable traits.
   3. To inseminate or impregnate; mate with.
4. To rear or train; bring up: a writer who was bred in a seafaring culture.
5. To be the place of origin of: Austria breeds great skiers.
6. To produce (fissionable material) in a breeder reactor.

v. intr.

1. To produce offspring.
2. To copulate; mate.
3. To originate and develop: Mischief breeds in bored minds.

n.

1. A group of organisms having common ancestors and certain distinguishable characteristics, especially a group within a species developed by artificial selection and maintained by controlled propagation.
2. A kind; a sort: a new breed of politician; a new breed of computer.
3. Offensive. A person of mixed racial descent; a half-breed.

breed

n 1: a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"

2: a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep" [syn: strain, stock]

3: half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents) [syn: half-breed]

4: a lineage or race of people [syn: strain]

v 1: call forth [syn: engender, spawn]

2: copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare" [syn: cover]

3: of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"

4: have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity" [syn: multiply]

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cf. brood

n.

1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time and cared for by the same mother. See Synonyms at flock¹.
2. The children in one family.

v. brood·ed, brood·ing, broods
v. tr.

1. To sit on or hatch (eggs).
2. To protect (young) by or as if by covering with the wings.

v. intr.

1. To sit on or hatch eggs.
2. To hover envelopingly; loom.
3. 1. To be deep in thought; meditate.
   2. To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry: brooded over the insult for several days.
   3. To be depressed.

adj.

Kept for breeding: a brood hen.

Synonyms: brood, dwell, fret, ¹mope, stew, worry
These verbs mean to turn over in the mind moodily and at length: brooding about his decline in popularity; dwelled on her defeat; fretted over the loss of his job; moping about his illness; stewing over her upcoming trial; worrying about the unpaid bills. See also synonyms at flock¹

brood

n : the young of an animal cared for at one time

v 1: think moodily or anxiously about something [syn: dwell]

2: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn: hover, loom, bulk large]

3: be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted" [syn: sulk, pout]

4: be in a huff; be silent or sullen [syn: grizzle, stew]

5: sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" [syn: hatch, cover, incubate]

[마스터현태]

breed (새끼를)낳다 (알을)까다. 2, 품종을 만들어내다. 3 (불화 등을) 일으키다.

[고냉이짱]

breed 알을까다. 새끼를 낳다, 종, 품종 what breed is your dog? 당신개는 무슨 종입니까?

[마으므로]

Mice breed rapidly. 쥐는 급속히 번식한다. Scholars are a diligent breed. 학자란 부지런한 (부류의) 사람들이다. Birds breed in the spring. 새들은 봄에 알을 깐다.

[마으므로]

How often do lions breed? 사자는 새끼를 얼마나 자주 낳지? breed cattle/dogs/horses 소/개/말을 키우다 Dirt breeds disease. 오물은 병을 초래한다.