English-Thai Dictionary

breeding

N การผสมพันธุ์สัตว์ เพื่อ ขยายพันธุ์  kan-pha-som-pan-sad-phuea-kha-yai-pan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BREEDING

ppr. Bearing and nourishing, as a fetus; engendering; producing; educating.

 

BREEDING

n.The act of generating or of producing. 1. The raising of a breed or breeds; as, the farmer attends to the breeding of sheep.
2. Nurture; education; instruction; formation of manners.
She had her breeding at my father's charge.
3. By way of eminence, manners; knowledge of ceremony; deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life. Hence good breeding is politeness, or the qualifications which constitute genteel deportment.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BREEDING

BREEDING Breed "ing, n.

 

1. The act or process of generating or bearing.

 

2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

 

3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge. Shak.

 

4. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. Hume.

 

5. Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs. ] Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. Shak. Close breeding, In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. -- Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. -- Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment.

 

Syn. -- Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See Education.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

breeding

breed ing |ˈbrēdiNG bridɪŋ | ▶noun the mating and production of offspring by animals: palolo worms use the moon to time their breeding. • the activity of controlling the mating and production of offspring of animals: the breeding of rats and mice for experiments. • training and education, esp. in proper social behavior: a girl of good breeding. • the good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity: a lady of breeding.

 

breeding ground

breed ing ground |ˈbridɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd | ▶noun an area where birds, fish, or other animals habitually breed. • [ usu. in sing. ] a thing that favors the development or occurrence of something: Austin is a breeding ground for musical talent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

breeding

breed |ing |ˈbriːdɪŋ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the mating and production of offspring by animals: the flooding of the rivers is a trigger for breeding to start. 2 the good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity: a girl of good breeding.

 

breeding ground

breed |ing ground ▶noun an area where birds, fish, or other animals habitually breed. • a place or situation that favours the development or occurrence of something: the situation is a breeding ground for political unrest.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

breeding

breeding noun 1 the birds pair for breeding: reproduction, procreation; mating. 2 the breeding of laboratory rats: rearing, raising, nurturing. 3 her aristocratic breeding: upbringing, rearing; parentage, family, pedigree, blood, birth, ancestry. 4 people of rank and breeding: (good ) manners, gentility, refinement, cultivation, polish, urbanity; informal class. ANTONYMS bad manners, vulgarity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

breeding

breeding noun 1 individuals pair late in the season for breeding the following year: reproduction, reproducing, procreation, multiplying, propagation; mating. 2 the breeding of rats and mice for experiment: rearing, raising, nurturing. 3 her aristocratic breeding: upbringing, rearing; birth, parentage, family, pedigree, blood, stock, lineage. 4 people of rank and breeding: (good ) manners, gentility, refinement, cultivation, culture, polish, civility, urbanity; politeness, courtesy, graciousness; informal class. ANTONYMS bad manners, vulgarity.

 

breeding ground

breeding ground noun Arkansas is a breeding ground for progressive politics: nursery, cradle, nest, den; seedbed, hotbed, forcing house.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

breeding

br é ed ing 名詞 U 1 (動植物の )繁殖 (過程 )▸ the breeding season 繁殖期 2 (動植物の )品種改良 ▸ breeding stock 種畜 3 行儀 [育ち ]のよさ, しつけ ▸ have (good ) breeding 行儀 [育ち ]がよい ～́ gr ò und 1 〖通例a ～〗【犯罪などの 】温床 ; 発生地 «for » .2 (動植物の )繁殖地 .