(v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
(v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
(v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
(v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
(v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock.
(v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process.
(v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
(v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
(v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
(v. i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny.
(n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
(n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
(n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(3) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(4) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(5) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(6) The results of this study suggested that there are differences in hormone concentrations that are related to size rather than being the result of differences in physiological maturity of different breeds of cattle.
(7) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(8) The major plasma lipoprotein of both breeds was high density lipoprotein (HDL) with some low density lipoprotein (LDL) and no very low density lipoprotein (VLDL).
(9) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(10) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(11) A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance.
(12) Urea was determined by means of diacetyl monoxim in the blood cells of 80 cockerels of the initial breed White Leghorn, commercial hybrid Primant.
(13) Beyond 20 mo, weights were adjusted to a constant condition score within breed of sire.
(14) A comparative study was performed for isoelectric and electrophoretic spectra blood serum albumin of parental breeds of chickens and their heterosis hybrids --broiler cocks.
(15) A higher ratio of excitatory to inhibitory neurotransmitter amino acids was always found in all the CNS regions studied in the aggressive breed.
(16) Bactrian camels (63 female female, 8 male male) were used in the breeding season to determine the factors that will induce ovulation.
(17) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(18) In Chinese Meishan pig embryonic mortality appears relatively low compared to European breeds.
(19) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(20) Experimentally, the newborn and juvenile matured white A breeded mice of both sexes were used.
Cotswold
Definition:
(n.) An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wonder how sick in the stomach Cameron felt when he saw himself in his Cotswold kitchen on TV.
(2) Mahmood took another royal scalp in 2005 when he posed as a property tycoon interested in buying Princess Michael of Kent’s 17th-century Cotswolds manor house.
(3) At the same time, the sentimental value of the countryside, which can be calibrated in the way a Cotswolds cottage is now an ultimate luxury, has never been higher.
(4) Liz Leffman, the Lib Dem candidate collecting signatures by the Cotswolds Kids clothing shop, sees Brexit as being on the ballot paper for this fight.
(5) He never lived in the house he bought in the Cotswolds.
(6) Schools like ourselves which are open to all pupils and serve a diverse community can’t plan, because … with surplus places in the South Cotswolds, we don’t know our final numbers till March each year,” Henson says.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Anti-badger gassing activists in the Cotswolds.
(8) If I’d grown up in a more normal household, maybe I wouldn’t have wanted to be one.” Although she moved to London after studying English at York University (she now lives in the Cotswolds), Yorkshire is an area she frequently returns to in her television writing.
(9) My husband and I began taking regular weekends away in the Cotswolds; we ended up making friends, and then hearing about a property for sale in the area.
(10) Racist jokes (some of which would have gone over my roof rack if I had been a Top Gear viewer) and an assault cost him his BBC slot , but he keeps his perch in the Murdoch press and, so I suspect, as court jester in the Cotswolds.
(11) The following year he scored a comic success as an old-fashioned, gentlemanly detective-inspector in Tony Bicat's spoof of the traditional country-house murder story, A Cotswold Death.
(12) I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds."
(13) If we were, we’d be living in a chocolate-box cottage in the Cotswolds,” she said.
(14) His tourist-guide zeal is so passionate, you might take him for an exile, a deracinated Lancastrian, rather than for what he really is – an Essex boy, with homes in London and the Cotswolds.
(15) Ukip had gone into Thursday's European poll with one representative – Farage – in the huge constituency which takes in nine counties and 8 million voters and stretches from the Cotswolds to Margate, and from the Isle of Wight to the southern suburbs of Milton Keynes.
(16) A flowering bluebell on the Cotswolds believes that Valentine’s Day falls in May.
(17) This Cotswold campsite offers two shepherd's huts with woodburning stoves and the chance to wake up to a carpet of blueness (from £70 per night, canopyandstars.co.uk ).
(18) The memorial is a 7ft-high curved wall of Cotswold stone designed to reflect the landscape of the Falklands and echoes a commemorative wall at the islands' San Carlos cemetery.
(19) She married partner Charlie Brooks, a racehorse trainer, last month, at St Bride's church on London's Fleet Street, and threw a huge party in the Cotswolds attended by some of the biggest names in showbiz, the media and politics.
(20) Gary Wright, who runs a family antiques business in the Cotswolds says that the rise in VAT will "hit our profits line.