different between brood vs breeder

English

Etymology

From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English br?d (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *br?duz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bro?od, IPA^(key): /b?u?d/
• Homophones: brewed
• Rhymes: -u?d

Noun

brood (countable and uncountable, plural broods)

1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

   • As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.

2. (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
3. (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
4. (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii^[1]:

     Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, / And bring thee forth brave brood.

5. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
   • 1598, George Chapman translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 2:

     […] flocks of the airy brood,

     Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 19:

     Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,

     And make the earth devour her own sweet brood […]

6. Parentage.
7. (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin

Adjective

brood (not comparable)

1. Kept or reared for breeding, said of animals.

   a brood mare

Verb

brood (third-person singular simple present broods, present participle brooding, simple past and past participle brooded)

1. (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

2. (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.

3. (intransitive) (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
   • 1833, Alfred Tennyson:

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 6, The Scarlet Letter:
4. (intransitive) To be bred.

Translations

Further reading

• Brood (honey bee) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dobro, boord, dobro, droob

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch brood, from Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??t/

Noun

brood (plural brode)

1. (countable) A loaf of bread.
2. (uncountable) Bread.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bro?t/
• Hyphenation: brood
• Rhymes: -o?t

Noun

brood n (plural broden, diminutive broodje n)

1. (uncountable) Bread.
2. (countable) A loaf of bread.
3. (countable, by extension) A similar bakery product or other baked dish.
4. (uncountable, metonymically) Someone's livelihood, especially in expressions like dagelijks brood.

Derived terms

- bakery products

Descendants

• Afrikaans: brood

Anagrams

• boord

Middle English

Alternative forms

• brod, brode

Etymology

From Old English br?d.

Adjective

brood

1. broad

Descendants

• English: broad
• Scots: braid

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