different between breeder vs broiler

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

English

Etymology

From broil +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b???l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b???l?/
• Rhymes: -??l?(r)

Noun

broiler (plural broilers)

1. A person who broils, someone who cooks by broiling.
2. (cooking, Canada, US) A device used to broil food; part of an oven or a small stove; known as a grill in UK English.
3. A chicken suitable for broiling.
4. (archaic) One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.
   • 1649, Henry Hammond, The Pastor's Motto

     What doth he but turn broiler, […] make new libels against the church?

Derived terms

• broilerhouse

Descendants

• ? Latgalian: broilers

Translations

Anagrams

• 'orrible