Breeding vs. Rearing: What's the Difference?

One's line of descent; ancestry

To care for (children or a child) during the early stages of life; bring up. See Usage Note at raise.

Upbringing or education, especially in proper social behavior.

To tend (growing plants or animals).

The production of offspring or young

To build; erect.

The propagation of animals or plants

(Archaic) To lift upright; raise.

Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.

To rise on the hind legs, as a horse.

The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.

To rise high in the air; tower.

The act of copulation in animals.

Present participle of rear

The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.

Act of raising young.

Nurture; education; formation of manners.

The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

Descent; pedigree; extraction.

Raising someone to be an accepted member of the community;

(gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.

Rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile;

Of, relating to or used for breeding.

Present participle of breed

The act or process of generating or bearing.

The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

Nurture; education; formation of manners.

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.

Descent; pedigree; extraction.

Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior);

Raising someone to be an accepted member of the community;

The production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization

The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

Producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring;