breeder
/ˈbɹiːdɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.35 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).
noun
Ellipsis of breeder reactor, a type of nuclear reactor that creates more fissile material than it consumes, often used for the production of atomic weapons.
noun
A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.
noun
A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focused on the rearing of their own children.
Derogatory; Slang
noun
A heterosexual person; one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding; straggot.
Derogatory; Humorous
Example Sentences
- "Breeders have figured out that if they can take one haploid set of chromosomes from a cross and copy it (or double it creating a double haploid), they will have a pure line almost instantly."
- "I was wondering if anyone out there could mail me a base for MIT's 'breeder' - the one with 8? puffer trains forming glider-guns. I've seen in in^([sic]) a few books but can't seem to get it working ..."
- "I later implemented an improved version of the algorithms on an Atari STe, this time the goal was to run the breeder, which it did at 2 gen/sec at the stage when the first glider gun has been assembled."
- "A glider-emitting breeder pattern can probably also be constructed in this rule, which would out-radiate any chaotic pattern by a considerable margin."
- "The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders."
- "Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock."