I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a breed of dog (= a type of dog )
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It is one of the most fashionable breeds of dog.
breed fish
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He has been breeding tropical fish for many years.
breed resentment (= cause it )
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These misunderstandings had bred resentment.
breeding ground
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Overcrowded slums are breeding grounds for crime.
dying breed
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Women who enjoy baking are a dying breed .
familiarity breeds contempt (= used to say that if you know someone very well, you may respect them less )
fish/marine/breeding tank (= for keeping or breeding fish in )
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■ ADVERB
successfully
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The number found breeding successfully in any year is small compared to the total population, for example only 20-25 pairs in 1971.
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Possibly they are birds which have failed to breed successfully and have assembled here to moult.
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Many species of tropical freshwater, marine and coldwater fish are being successfully bred by fishkeepers all over the world.
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Tropical marine invertebrates, unlike marine fish which are notoriously difficult to successfully breed in captivity, are far more accommodating.
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Enclaves of this non-dispersing animal can only survive where the adults can breed successfully .
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Peter and Webster were bred successfully at the start of this year.
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Although they have bred successfully once, they are still nervous.
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Peregrines last bred successfully in 1957, and are now only winter visitors and passage migrants.
■ NOUN
animal
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However, breeders have been taking steps to reduce calving problems and also to breed longer, taller animals .
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Depending on circumstances it may be more effective to either purchase animals from a commercial breeder or to breed one's own animals.
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If animals are used on a more regular basis there may be advantages in breeding the animals.
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To breed from an animal obese just because it ate well is a waste of time.
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Dozens of the rhesus macaque monkeys have been sold to a firm which breeds animals for medical research.
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As a result, to breed from animals or crops desirable for one reason often leads to failure in another part.
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Pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers breed their own animals , but demand always exceeds supply and extremely high prices are paid.
bird
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We fixed red clay pots to the sides to encourage the birds to breed .
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In this country there are nearly three hundred birds being bred on farms and it's increasing.
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What other birds breed on Spurn?
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There is not a chance of going unobtrusively through any area where these birds are breeding !
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The number of bird species spotted breeding in the area has reached 180.
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Being strongly territorial they have less need for this when compared with birds breeding in tightly packed colonies.
captivity
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Adults are easy to keep in aquaria for they rarely climb out if well-treated, and will breed freely in captivity .
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Given optimum conditions, Oscars will breed in captivity , but sexing is difficult.
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Few fishkeepers for whatever reason, seem interested in attempting to breed this cichlid in captivity .
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Many attempts have been made to breed them in captivity , however, there are flaws in this idea.
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To date it does not appear that this species has been bred in captivity .
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Tropical marine invertebrates, unlike marine fish which are notoriously difficult to successfully breed in captivity , are far more accommodating.
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Many campaigners feel that chimps for scientific purposes should be bred in captivity , to avoid draining the wild resources.
familiarity
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It also ensures that omissions are not made simply because you have dictated the letter so often that familiarity has bred contempt.
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The United States has usually been an exception to the rule that familiarity breeds contempt.
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For them, familiarity has bred contempt.
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By then we had evolved beyond the comforting comedy of repeated formulas, where familiarity bred content.
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I see them every day and familiarity doesn't breed contempt so much as disgust in me.
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A major difficulty with such a test is that familiarity may breed tolerance rather than contempt.
fish
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The first food I use is infusoria prepared prior to breeding the fish .
generation
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With a wild surmise, 1 began to breed , generation after generation, from whichever child looked most like an insect.
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It bred a new generation of workers with no memory of mass unemployment.
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To answer this it is necessary to breed the next generation , called the F2 generation.
pairs
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One or two pairs breed in coastal marshes.
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An estimated 50,000 pairs of kittiwakes breed at Bempton and thousands more breed elsewhere on Flamborough Head.
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However, single pairs breed regularly at the Cuckmere estuary and about 12 pairs do so between Rye and the Midrips.
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You can even let newly-established pairs breed in the community tank at the outset.
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Other breeding season records, however, indicate that between five and 10 pairs probably breed in most years.
species
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The breeding range of island species is small and therefore vulnerable, and the species themselves may be quite primitive.
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Another example is breeding endangered species in zoos.
stock
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These are bred with original stock , or its offspring.
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Entire shoals are surrounded by nets and sucked in for processing and freezing, leaving nothing left to breed and replenish stocks .
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Wild specimens should also be bred with domesticated stock to introduce new bloodlines.
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Hall's main pay cheque comes from selling lambs which go to the lowlands as breeding stock .
success
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Just as failure often follows failure, success breeds success.
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Investors are only human. Success breeds self-confidence and imitation.
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In slimming, success tends to breed success and viceversa.
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The irony is that our very success seems to breed more extremism in the environmental community and greater detachment from reality.
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Now I have seen a huge shift in that attitude. Success breeds success.
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But success breeds replication and good examples of provision soon spread to other centres.
tank
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You can even let newly-established pairs breed in the community tank at the outset.
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Wild Angels have bred in the tank quite happily on numerous occasions.
■ VERB
born
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David MacKinlay was a Lewisach born and bred , educated at Stornoway who made good in the outside world.
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I must say this openly: d'Aubigny I liked immediately, a gentleman born and bred , a true courtier like myself.
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He was a Cambridge man born and bred .
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He had been born and bred on the river, but had never seen anything like it before.
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I was born and bred and grew up in Rossendale Valley and left at the age of 27.
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Ian was born and bred in Gloucester.
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Malcolm Bevan was born and bred in Soudley.
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Now, I tell you this, I am a rogue born and bred .
start
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Bill got the orchid bug from an old neighbour who encouraged him to to start breeding the plants.
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Eagles start to breed in their fifth year.
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The migrants waste no time in starting to breed .
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By this means we showed that males at Llandrindod tend to start breeding a year younger than females.
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breeding/fertile/proving ground
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His inspiration fell on fertile ground , prepared by endless repetition.
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On their arrival at the breeding grounds , male pied flycatchers find a suitable nesting site.
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The position required no athletic ability, but traditionally has served as a proving ground for Mississippi politicians.
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The race, the breeding ground , might be missed, both in sporting and traditional terms, should it cease.
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The unhygienic conditions of a stable were a breeding ground for all manner of disease and bacteria hazardous to a newborn.
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There are 22 events per year, and tracks range from Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground tote Mans.
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Where scum settles on wetted surfaces in kitchens, it creates an ideal breeding ground for bacteria.
familiarity breeds contempt
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Perhaps familiarity breeds contempt - among teachers as well as children.
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The first is that familiarity breeds contempt.
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The United States has usually been an exception to the rule that familiarity breeds contempt.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Only some endangered animals can be bred in zoos.
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Rabbits breed very quickly.
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The music became a fixture on urban radio in the '80s and bred a generation of fans.
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These trees are bred to resist pollution.
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This is a pond where ducks breed .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another trouble with politics, it breeds politics.
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But success in this world seems to breed envy which, in its turn, can breed hostility.
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Decomposing waste and disease-carrying bacteria compete with the fish for oxygen, limiting the number of fish that can be bred.
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The planned deregulation has bred concern that Petron will face stiffer competition and an erosion of its 42 percent market share.
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There are lots of them out there and, apparently, they breed like Kennedys.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Evelyn was of a different era, a different breed .
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The hack drivers, who were present in droves, were a different breed .
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But these ratios vary enormously with the different breeds of pedigree cats.
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Backstabbers, however, are a whole different breed .
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It is a tradition where instrumentalists apart from organists are apt to seem like a different breed of musician altogether.
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They certainly look a different breed , the ones I've met.
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Policemen are not usually intellectuals and have as a rule a distrust of them as animals of a different breed .
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This was tempting a different breed into the job - it could now be seen as a rewarding all-year-round career.
dying
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There are still a few of this dying breed around.
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Little old ladies who had relished home baking were a dying breed and the younger generation simply couldn't relate to them.
hardy
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It is a hardy colour-sided breed , brick-red on white, and remains dual-purpose but with the emphasis on milk.
large
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In the case of a particularly large breed this is perhaps understandable, because of the sheer weight.
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An oyster that has grown large enough to breed is a great success, in oyster terms.
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It is a large breed and, known as the Big Red, it used to be the biggest breed in Britain.
modern
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Each evolved on different terrain and has hooves to match. Modern breeds stem from these varieties, and feet vary accordingly.
new
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As a result, most of the new breed of gliders are more pleasant and safer to fly.
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Shaffer is one of the new breed of wunderkind chefs.
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In fact, no one seems to know exactly where future career opportunities lie for this new breed .
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First a new breed of fleet must be dispatched and anchored at 600-mile intervals in the oceans.
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Nonconformist borrowers were thrown a lifeline only five years ago when this new breed of mortgage lender was born.
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I felt as if I bad crossed a chasm of time and was some new breed of man.
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They are the names of microcomputers produced by a new breed of electronics entrepreneurs.
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According to industry officials, a new breed of digital phone transmits in computer code that is much more difficult to intercept.
old
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Most of the old breeds come instead from the East.
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Whether his fainting goats were a new mutation or part of an older breed remains unclear.
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Are all our old breeds to become as useful as pet budgies?
other
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Living as it does at high level, it produces fewer lambs than other breeds .
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With hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of other rare breeds there, managers are also taking steps to improve security.
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This can be a particular problem with hounds, which tend to be less territorial than some other breeds .
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The Jersey is certainly recognised in tropical countries as giving better results than other temperate breeds .
rare
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The Farm Park specializes in showing the public rare breeds of farm animals.
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Though Manhattan sports any number of bars capable of making a great drink, the grand hotel bar is a rare breed .
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The farm at the site operates a rare breeds centre and also has a tea room with traditional fare.
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Lovelock was very rare breed in modern science.
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In this respect Anderson is a rare breed among geophysicists, an avowed generalist.
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Demand for the rare breed products is growing.
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Conservative Democrats are a very, very rare breed today in the Deep South.
special
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Then, it was granted to a special breed of psychopath with a penchant for leather jackets and flared trousers.
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There was a certain cockiness in his demeanor, as if he were quite aware that he was of a special breed .
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They really are a special breed .
young
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Here they would spend ten or more days catching the young gannets which breed on the rock in thousands.
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The old guard, too fond of international conferences, has given way to a younger breed of activist.
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One is the younger breed of entrepreneur looking to get involved in e-business start-ups.
■ NOUN
beef
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In Britain today the Devon has become a beef breed .
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The Hereford is probably the most numerous and widely distributed beef breed in the world.
society
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Find out how much foal registration fees will be and whether or not you need to join any breed society .
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A breed society was formed in 1903.
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The major breed societies and their representatives are listed in many good books and in publications like the Horse and Hound Diary.
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The breed society was established in 1884 and a herdbook opened the following year.
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Its breed society and herdbook were established in 1894.
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Its breed society considers it to be a dual-purpose type, though it is rather slow-maturing for beef.
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Cut-off date for registrations imposed by some breed societies will be a prime consideration.
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become
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In Britain today the Devon has become a beef breed .
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Eventually, while still retaining their tadpole appearance, they become sexually mature and breed .
create
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The demands of the sport are creating a new breed of mutant.
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The clamp down will create a new breed of locally created censors.
dye
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He's among the a dying breed .
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The truth is that Eddie represents a dying breed of the playboy racing driver.
improve
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Otto Galler further improved the breed , crafting today's streamlined beast.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
born and bred
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Meyer's a Texan, born and bred.
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David MacKinlay was a Lewisach born and bred, educated at Stornoway who made good in the outside world.
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He had been born and bred on the river, but had never seen anything like it before.
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He was a Cambridge man born and bred.
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I must say this openly: d'Aubigny I liked immediately, a gentleman born and bred, a true courtier like myself.
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I was born and bred and grew up in Rossendale Valley and left at the age of 27.
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Mr Waigel is a Bavarian born and bred who has little love for Bonn but none at all for the former Prussian capital.
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Mum Ann, east Belfast born and bred, is hoping her boy helps the Glens to victory.
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They were an ordinary family, all born and bred locally, but their relationship with Alexander was both friendly and relaxed.
familiarity breeds contempt
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Perhaps familiarity breeds contempt - among teachers as well as children.
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The first is that familiarity breeds contempt.
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The United States has usually been an exception to the rule that familiarity breeds contempt.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Birds make nests in preparation for breeding.
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It's a very unusual breed of goat, dating back to the time of Cleopatra.
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Most dairy herds today are of Friesian or Holstein breeds.
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Spaniels are my favorite breed of dog.
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What breed of dog is that? I've never seen one like it before.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A breed of men to whom truth was open not just to minor revisions and nice distinctions, but to management.
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As mentioned earlier, there is some connection between temperament and factors such as build, colour, breed etc.
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Now a new breed of scientists is changing all that.
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Shaffer is one of the new breed of wunderkind chefs.
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Some short-haired breeds have guard hairs that are less than 2 inches in length, sparse awn hairs and no down hairs.
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That said, do not be fooled into thinking that the Internet-only breed will automatically offer higher rates.
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The hippies have proved a sturdier breed than most.