What's the difference between breed and proliferate?

Breed


Definition:

  • (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.

Proliferate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.
  • (v. t.) To produce zooids by budding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
  • (2) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
  • (3) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
  • (4) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
  • (5) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
  • (6) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
  • (7) Proliferation assays using F3 showed that 15 (14 CD4+ and 1 CD8+) of the 18 isolated clones were specific for T. gondii.
  • (8) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
  • (9) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
  • (10) During capillary growth when endothelial cells (EC) undergo extensive proliferation and migration and pericytes are scarce, hyaluronic acid (HA) levels are elevated.
  • (11) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
  • (12) T cell costimulation by molecules on the antigen presenting cell (APC) is required for optimal T cell proliferation.
  • (13) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
  • (14) However, a highly significant upward shift of the proliferating cell compartment was observed in the cancer group, resulting in a specific modification of the [3H]TDR labeling pattern in 6 of 17 specimens.
  • (15) Anti-5'-NT antibodies had no effect on PHA-induced proliferation.
  • (16) The mechanism by which gp55 causes increased erythroblastosis and ultimately leukaemia is unknown, but a reasonable suggestion is that gp55 can mimic the action of erythropoietin by binding to its receptor (Epo-R), thereby triggering prolonged proliferation of erythroid cells.
  • (17) Extensive proliferation has been shown to accompany the de novo generation of LAK cytotoxicity.
  • (18) Proliferating cells were abundant and scattered throughout the stratified epithelium before the appearance of villi.
  • (19) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
  • (20) Whereas the growth and division of normal cells is carefully regulated to meet the needs of the body, tumor cells proliferate autonomously and continually, eventually interfering with and destroying the functions of normal tissue.