breed

/bri:d/

Thân thiện

A farmer carefully selects a new breed of sheep for his flock.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A specific type or kind, especially of people or animals: Refers to a distinct group sharing common characteristics, often within a larger category.
   • A lineage or ancestry: Can refer to a person's or animal's inherited background or stock.

2. Verb:

   • To produce offspring (animals or organisms): The act of reproduction in animals, plants, or microorganisms.
   • To raise or keep animals for the purpose of producing young with specific qualities: The controlled practice of animal husbandry.
   • To cause or give rise to something (often abstract): To be the source or origin of a feeling, situation, or idea.
   • To bring up or train in a particular way: To educate or nurture someone, instilling specific qualities.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:

  • He is a rare breed of politician who always tells the truth. (He is a specific, uncommon type of politician.)
  • The farmer raises a hardy breed of cattle. (The farmer raises a specific variety of cattle.)

• Verb:

  • These rabbits breed very quickly. (These rabbits produce offspring very quickly.)
  • She breeds champion show dogs. (She raises dogs to produce puppies that become champion show dogs.)
  • Poverty can breed crime and despair. (Poverty can cause crime and despair to arise.)
  • He was bred to be a gentleman. (He was raised and educated to become a gentleman.)

Advanced Usage

• "To breed in and in": To breed animals (or, metaphorically, people) from very closely related stock.
  • The royal families of Europe often bred in and in, leading to genetic issues.
• "To breed out": To eliminate a characteristic through selective breeding.
  • They tried to breed out the aggressive traits from the dog's lineage.
• "What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh" (Idiom): Inherited or deeply ingrained characteristics cannot be hidden or changed.

Variants and Related Words

• Breeder (n): A person who breeds animals or plants.
  • She is a professional dog breeder.
• Breeding (n): 1) The process of animal reproduction or husbandry. 2) A person's manners and education, seen as a result of their upbringing.
  • The breeding of these flowers requires careful temperature control.
  • His good breeding was evident in his polite conversation.

Synonyms

• Noun (type): Kind, sort, variety, strain, type.
• Verb (produce young): Reproduce, procreate, multiply.
• Verb (cause): Generate, engender, spawn, foster.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Breed into: To instill a quality through persistent training or conditioning.
  • Obedience was bred into the dogs from puppyhood.
• Breed out of: To eliminate a trait through selective breeding (similar to "breed out").
  • They hope to breed the susceptibility to disease out of the crop.

Related Idioms

• Familiarity breeds contempt: Prolonged and close knowledge of someone or something can lead to a loss of respect.
  • They worked together for so long that familiarity bred contempt.
• A dying breed: A type of person or thing that is becoming increasingly rare or obsolete.
  • Traditional craftsmen are a dying breed.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a special type
   • Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs
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

Verb

1. have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
   • pandas rarely breed in captivity
   • These bacteria reproduce
2. cause to procreate (animals)
   • She breeds dogs
3. copulate with a female, used especially of horses
   • The horse covers the mare
4. call forth

Từ đồng nghĩa

• strain
• stock
• multiply
• cover
• engender
• spawn