Breed

[briːd] or [brid]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a special type; 'Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs'.

(noun.) 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.) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms); 'pandas rarely breed in captivity'; 'These bacteria reproduce'.

(verb.) cause to procreate (animals); 'She breeds dogs'.

(verb.) copulate with a female, used especially of horses; 'The horse covers the mare'.

校對:马里恩--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

整理:肯尼思

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Nourish, nurture, foster, bring up.[2]. Discipline, educate, instruct, train, teach, school.[3]. Beget, get, procreate, engender, generate, produce.[4]. Originate, occasion, give rise to, be the cause of.

v. n. [1]. Bring forth young, produce offspring.[2]. Be born, be produced.

n. Race (of animals), lineage, pedigree, progeny, stock.

校對:瓦珥

解釋/意思:

v.t. to generate or bring forth: to train or bring up: to cause or occasion.—v.i. to be with young: to produce offspring: to be produced or brought forth:—pa.t. and pa.p. bred.—n. that which is bred progeny or offspring: kind or race.—ns. Breed′-bate (Shak.) one who is constantly breeding or producing debate or strife; Breed′er one who breeds or brings up; Breed′ing act of producing: education or manners.—Breeding in-and-in pairing of similar forms: marrying always among near relations.

整理:尼古拉斯