Breeding
['briːdɪŋ] or ['bridɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization.
(noun.) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; 'they debated whether nature or nurture was more important'.
(noun.) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression.
(adj.) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; 'the breeding population'; 'retained a few bulls for breeding purposes' .
Edited by Caleb--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breed
(n.) The act or process of generating or bearing.
(n.) The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
(n.) Nurture; education; formation of manners.
(n.) Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.
(n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Nurture, education, discipline, instruction, training, schooling.[2]. Deportment, manners.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Nurture, education, training, discipline, instruction, manners, air, demeanor,decorum
ANT:ill-manners, ill-training, illbehavior, ignorance
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Examples
- Of course, my fair readers would not have me guilty of such extreme ill-breeding as to differ in opinion from a noble duke! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And if care was not taken in the breeding, your dogs and birds would greatly deteriorate? Plato. The Republic.
- No blame attached to the officers--that lying and disaster-breeding verdict so common to our softhearted juries is seldom rendered in France. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Next came Napier, who, with his usual ill-breeding, began to whisper in Julia's ear. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The malarial mosquito and the typhoid fly flourish in unhygienic quarters, and the only way to guard against their dangers is to allow them neither food nor breeding place. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Do you think, because I am a governess, I have not as much sense, and feeling, and good breeding as you gentlefolks in Hampshire? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Five and thirty, good-looking, good figure, good teeth, good voice, good breeding, well-dressed, dark hair, bold eyes. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- For why do we blame all gross and injurious language, unless it be, because we esteem it contrary to good breeding and humanity? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This is a matter of mere common politeness and good-breeding, and has nothing to do with any encouragement to people to marry. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But there IS something in good breeding after all! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This strip of land from ocean to ocean abounded in disease-breeding swamps and filthy habitations unfit for human beings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- True, she was sadly prejudiced, and very ignorant; but that was to be expected from her southern breeding. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The rules of good breeding condemn whatever is openly disobliging, and gives a sensible pain and confusion to those, with whom we converse. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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