different between brooding vs breeder

English

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

brooding (comparative more brooding, superlative most brooding)

1. (of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.

2. Deeply or seriously thoughtful.

Derived terms

• broodingly
• broodingness

Translations

Verb

brooding

1. present participle of brood

Noun

brooding (plural broodings)

1. A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.

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