breeding vs raising

breeding

noun
  • Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction. 

  • The act of copulation in animals. 

  • The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity. 

  • Nurture; education; formation of manners. 

  • Descent; pedigree; extraction. 

  • Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex. 

  • The act of insemination by natural or artificial means. 

adj
  • Of, relating to or used for breeding. 

raising

noun
  • Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity 

  • Collection or gathering, especially of money. 

  • Elevation. 

  • The process of deepening colours in dyeing. 

  • A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before. 

  • The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning. 

  • Recruitment. 

  • The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building. 

  • The substance used to make bread rise. 

  • The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause. 

How often have the words breeding and raising occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )