The difference between Breed and Rear

When used as nouns, breed means all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies, whereas rear means the back or hindmost part.

When used as verbs, breed means to produce offspring sexually, whereas rear means to bring up to maturity, as offspring.

Rear is also adverb with the meaning: early.

Rear is also adjective with the meaning: underdone.

check bellow for the other definitions of Breed and Rear

  1. Breed as a verb:

    To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

  2. Breed as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men"

  3. Breed as a verb:

    Of animals, to mate.

  4. Breed as a verb:

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

  5. Breed as a verb:

    To arrange the mating of specific animals.

    Examples:

    "She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull."

  6. Breed as a verb:

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

    Examples:

    "He tries to breed blue roses."

  7. Breed as a verb:

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

  8. Breed as a verb:

    To yield or result in.

    Examples:

    "disaster breeds famine; [[familiarity breeds contempt familiarity breeds contempt]]"

  9. Breed as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.

  10. Breed as a verb:

    To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up.

  11. Breed as a verb:

    To produce or obtain by any natural process.

  12. Breed as a verb (intransitive):

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

  13. Breed as a verb (transitive):

    to ejaculate inside someone's ass

  1. Breed as a noun:

    All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

    Examples:

    "a breed of tulip"

    "a breed of animal"

  2. Breed as a noun:

    A race or lineage; offspring or issue.

  3. Breed as a noun (informal):

    A group of people with shared characteristics.

    Examples:

    "People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed."

  1. Rear as a verb (transitive):

    To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.

  2. Rear as a verb (transitive, said of people towards animals):

    To breed and raise.

    Examples:

    "usex The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years."

  3. Rear as a verb (intransitive):

    To rise up on the hind legs

    Examples:

    "usex The horse was shocked, and thus reared."

  4. Rear as a verb (intransitive, usually with "up"):

    To get angry.

  5. Rear as a verb (intransitive):

    To rise high above, tower above.

  6. Rear as a verb (transitive, literary):

    To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.

    Examples:

    "Poverty reared its ugly head.'' gloss appeared, started, began to have an effect"

    "The monster slowly reared its head."

  7. Rear as a verb (transitive, rare):

    To construct by building; to set up

    Examples:

    "to rear defenses or houses"

    "to rear one government on the ruins of another."

  8. Rear as a verb (transitive, rare):

    To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.

  9. Rear as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To lift and take up.

  10. Rear as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To rouse; to strip up.

  1. Rear as a verb (transitive):

    To move; stir.

  2. Rear as a verb (transitive, of geese):

    To carve.

    Examples:

    "Rere that goose!"

  3. Rear as a verb (regional, obsolete):

    To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)

    Examples:

    "He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead. (Speculum Sacerdotale c. 15th century)"

  1. Rear as an adjective (now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):

    Underdone; nearly raw.

  2. Rear as an adjective (chiefly, _, US):

    Rare.

  1. Rear as an adjective:

    Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost

    Examples:

    "usex the rear'' rank of a company"

    "usex sit in the rear'' seats of a car"

  1. Rear as an adverb (British, dialect):

    early; soon

  1. Rear as a noun:

    The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.

  2. Rear as a noun (military):

    Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

  3. Rear as a noun (anatomy):

    The buttocks, a creature's bottom

  1. Rear as a verb:

    To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.

  2. Rear as a verb (transitive, vulgar, British):

    To sodomize

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