different between keeper vs breeder

English

Etymology

From Middle English kepere, equivalent to keep +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ki?p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ki?p?/

• Rhymes: -i?p?(r)

Noun

keeper (plural keepers)

1. One who keeps something.

2. (informal) A person or thing worth keeping.
   • 1970, Field & Stream (volume 75, number 7, page 76)

     "Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.

   • 2005, Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 122, Issues 7-12, page 101,

     When he brought me home and volunteered to come with me while I walked my dog, Max, I knew he was a keeper.

   • 2008, Jennifer Zomar, A Candle for the Children, page 28,

     We hadn't dated for long when he said those three magic words: "I'll cook tonight." I knew he was a keeper.

3. A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.

   • And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
4. (sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.
5. A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits in the frame and receives the bolt.
6. (American football) An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.
7. One who remains or keeps in a place or position.

   • discreet; chaste; keepers at home

   • 1971, H. R. F. Keating, The Strong Man

     I was not altogether surprised: they seemed to be, even more than people in the surrounding wolds, stolid keepers-to-themselves, impossible to stir, dourly determined to stick to the firm routine of their lives […]

8. A fruit or vegetable that keeps for some time without spoiling.
   • c. 1847, Andrew Jackson Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America

     Roxbury Russet: Market and keeper.

   • 1878, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening (volume 35, page 331)

     And mark you, good keepers are some years bad keepers, as this year; and a hard, heavy, unbruisable Apple that really will keep to late on in the season is doubly valuable.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• peeker

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English keeper.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: kee?per
• Rhymes: -ip?r

Noun

keeper m (plural keepers, diminutive keepertje n)

1. (sports) keeper, goalie

Synonyms

• doelman
• doelvrouw

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: keeper

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