different between bleeder vs breeder

English

Etymology

bleed +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?blid?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bli?d?/
• Hyphenation: bleed?er

Noun

bleeder (plural bleeders)

1. A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
2. (surgery) A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
3. Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
4. A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
5. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
   • 1938, Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music

     His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish, / Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 36,

     ‘Well, what did the old bleeder say?’ said Opus Fluke.

6. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A person who spends a great deal of time playing video games.

Translations

Anagrams

• rebleed

English

Etymology

breed +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?i?d?(?)/
• Rhymes: -i?d?(?)

Noun

breeder (plural breeders)

1. A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).
2. (slang, derogatory) A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
   • 1729, Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal

     The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders.

3. (gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heterosexual

   • 2010, Walter Lape, Alaska Waters, The Hudson Press (?ISBN)

     My father spoke in a quiet, measured voice that gradually increased in tempo and in volume, “Travis, suppose everyone at this table were gay except you, and I called you a trailer-trash breeder?”

4. Ellipsis of breeder reactor; a type of nuclear reactor that creates more fissile material than it consumes, often used for the production of atomic weapons.
5. (cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.

Derived terms

• stockbreeder

Related terms

• breed
• breeder reactor
• breeding
• brood
• brooding
• purebred, pure-bred

Translations

Further reading

• breeder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• breeder reactor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• breeder (cellular automaton) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rebreed