Bread vs. Breed

Bread vs. Breed — Is There a Difference?
ADVERTISEMENT

Difference Between Bread and Breed

Breadnoun

(uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

Breedverb

To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

Breadnoun

(countable) Any variety of bread.

Breedverb

(transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.

a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men

Breadnoun

Money.

Let's get this bread.

Breedverb

Of animals, to mate.

ADVERTISEMENT

Breadnoun

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

Breedverb

To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.

Breadnoun

Breadth.

Breedverb

To arrange the mating of specific animals.

She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull.

Breadnoun

A piece of embroidery; a braid.

Breedverb

To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.

He tries to breed blue roses.
ADVERTISEMENT

Breadverb

(transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs

Breedverb

To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.

Breadverb

To make broad; spread.

Breedverb

To yield or result in.

disaster breeds famine;familiarity breeds contempt

Breadverb

(transitive) To form in meshes; net.

Breedverb

To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.

Breadnoun

food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

Breedverb

(sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up

Breadnoun

informal terms for money

Breedverb

To produce or obtain by any natural process.

Breadverb

cover with bread crumbs;

bread the pork chops before frying them

Breedverb

(intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.

Breedverb

(transitive) to ejaculate inside someone's ass

Breednoun

All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

a breed of tulipa breed of animal

Breednoun

A race or lineage; offspring or issue.

Breednoun

(informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.

People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.

Breednoun

a special lineage;

a breed of Americans

Breednoun

a special variety of domesticated animals within a species;

he experimented on a particular breed of white ratshe created a new strain of sheep

Breednoun

half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents)

Breednoun

a lineage or race of people

Breedverb

call forth

Breedverb

copulate with a female, used especially of horses;

The horse covers the mare

Breedverb

of plants or animals;

She breeds dogs

Breedverb

have young (animals);

pandas rarely breed in captivity