different between breed vs quality

English

Alternative forms

• breede (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan, from Proto-Germanic *br?dijan? (“to brood”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?- (“warm”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid, Saterland Frisian briede, West Frisian briede, Dutch broeden, German Low German bröden, German brüten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?i?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Verb

breed (third-person singular simple present breeds, present participle breeding, simple past and past participle bred)

1. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
2. (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.

   a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men
3. Of animals, to mate.
4. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
5. To arrange the mating of specific animals.

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

7. To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
   • 1859, Edward Everett, An Oration on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Statue of Mr. Webster

     born and bred on the verge of the wilderness

8. To yield or result in.
   • 1634, John Milton, Comus

     Lest the place / And my quaint habits breed astonishment.

9. (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
10. (sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up
    • 1724-1734', Bishop Burnet, History of My Own Time

      No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.

    • His farm may not […] remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.

11. To produce or obtain by any natural process.

    • Children would breed their teeth with much less danger.

12. (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
    • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III Scene 1

      Fair encounter

      Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace

      On that which breed between 'em!

13. (transitive) to ejaculate inside someone's ass
    • 2018, Cassandra Dee, Paying My Boyfriend's Debt: A Billionaire Bad Boy Romance, Cassandra Dee Romance via PublishDrive

      “God, I love your ass,” he says, his voice almost a growl. “I'm gonna breed this ass tonight.”

    • 2015, David Holly, The Heart's Eternal Desire, Bold Strokes Books Inc (?ISBN)

      “ Yes,” I said. “You want to fuck me, and I submit to you. My body is yours. Stuff me. Fill me. Breed my ass. Seed me, my love.

    • year unknown, Tymber Dalton, Disorder in the House [Suncoast Society], Siren-BookStrand (?ISBN), page 32:

      “Then...you get...bred.”

    • 2017, Casper Graham, Same Script, Different Cast [Scripts & Lyrics Trilogy], Siren-BookStrand (?ISBN), page 41:

      “I can't...can't last, baby.” / “I don't care. Come inside me. Breed me.”

    • 2017, Casper Graham, Nothing Short of a Miracle [Scripts & Lyrics Trilogy], Siren-BookStrand (?ISBN), page 19:

      "Are you clean?" he asked. / "Yeah, I get tested recently." / "Perfect. Breed me.”

Synonyms

• (take care of in infancy and through childhood): raise, bring up, rear

Derived terms

Related terms

• breed in the bone

Translations

Noun

breed (plural breeds)

1. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

   a breed of tulip

   a breed of animal

2. A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12:

     And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence

     Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

3. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.

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

Translations

Anagrams

• berde, brede, rebed

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch breed, from Middle Dutch brêet, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-West Germanic *braid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br???t/, [bre?t]

Adjective

breed (attributive breë, comparative breër, superlative breedste)

1. broad

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brêet, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bre?t/, [bre?t]
• Hyphenation: breed
• Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

breed (comparative breder, superlative breedst)

1. broad, wide

   Antonyms: nauw, smal

Inflection

Derived terms

• breedband
• breedbeeld
• breeddoek
• breedgebouwd
• breedgerand
• breedgeschouderd
• breedgetakt
• breedgetakt
• breedspraak
• breedte
• breedvoerig
• hemelsbreed
• kamerbreed
• verbreden

Descendants

• Afrikaans: breed
• ? West Frisian: breed

Anagrams

• brede

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch breed, displacing older brie.

Adjective

breed

1. broad, wide

Inflection

Derived terms

• breedteken

Further reading

• “breed”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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Etymology

From Middle English bred, from Old English br?ad, from Proto-Germanic *braud?. Cognates include English bread and Scots breid.

Noun

breed

1. bread

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French qualité, from Latin qu?lit?tem, accusative of qu?lit?s, from qu?lis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?o- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ??????? (poiót?s, “quality”), coined by Plato from ????? (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?l?ti/
• (UK, obsolete) IPA^(key): /?kwæl?ti/, /?kwæl?t?/
• (US, father-bother merger, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?kw?l?ti/, [?k?w????i]

Noun

quality (countable and uncountable, plural qualities)

1. (uncountable) Level of excellence.
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     He called for China’s cooperation in efforts to improve air quality.

2. (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
3. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)

4. (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
5. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
6. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.

7. (countable, Britain, journalism) A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
   • 1998, Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins, Robert Leach, Contemporary British Politics (page 164)

     It is argued that in the last ten years or so, quality broadsheet newspapers have become more like the tabloids. Anthony Sampson has argued that 'the frontier between the qualities and popular papers has virtually disappeared'.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "quality": high, good, excellent, exceptional, great, outstanding, satisfactory, acceptable, sufficient, adequate, poor, low, bad, inferior, dubious, environmental, visual, optical, industrial, total, artistic, educational, physical, musical, chemical, spiritual, intellectual, architectural, mechanical.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:characteristic

Hyponyms

• human quality
• industrial quality

Coordinate terms

• (a property that differentiates): quiddity

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

quality (comparative more quality, superlative most quality)

1. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

Derived terms

• qualityness

Related terms

• qualia
• qualitative

Translations

References

• Quality (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• quality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• quality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• quality at OneLook Dictionary Search