breed vs sire

breed

verb
  • To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up. 

  • To produce offspring sexually; to bear young. 

  • To arrange the mating of specific animals. 

  • To produce or obtain by any natural process. 

  • To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied. 

  • To yield or result in. 

  • To ejaculate inside; to attempt to impregnate. 

  • Of animals, to mate. 

  • To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities. 

  • To give birth to; to be the native place of. 

  • To educate; to instruct; to bring up 

  • To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities. 

noun
  • A race or lineage; offspring or issue. 

  • A group of people with shared characteristics. 

  • All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies. 

sire

verb
  • to father; to beget. 

noun
  • A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research). 

  • A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign. 

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