Breed

Gujarati Meaning

English Meaning

1. To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch.
2. To bring about; engender: "Admission of guilt tends to breed public sympathy” ( Jonathan Alter).
3. To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection: breed cattle.
4. To develop new or improved strains in (organisms), chiefly through controlled mating and selection of offspring for desirable traits.
5. To inseminate or impregnate; mate with.
6. To rear or train; bring up: a writer who was bred in a seafaring culture.
7. To be the place of origin of: Austria breeds great skiers.
8. To produce (fissionable material) in a breeder reactor.
9. To produce offspring.
10. To copulate; mate.
11. To originate and develop: Mischief breeds in bored minds.
12. A group of organisms having common ancestors and certain distinguishable characteristics, especially a group within a species developed by artificial selection and maintained by controlled propagation.
13. A kind; a sort: a new breed of politician; a new breed of computer.
14. Offensive A person of mixed racial descent; a half-breed.
15. a scab Regional To stir up trouble for oneself.
16. breed up a storm New England To become cloudy.