breeder

English

breeder pattern (cellular automata)

Etymology

breed +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɹiːdə(ɹ)/
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)

Noun

breeder (plural breeders)

A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).
- 2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 137:
  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.
(slang, derogatory) A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
- 1729, Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
  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.
(gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heterosexual
Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock.
- 1984, Steve Upstill, net.motss, Usenet‎:
  What is this here natural/unnatural stuff, anyway? Seems like a rationalization to this breeder.
- 2000, “Now Approaching... The Line”, in Queer as Folk, spoken by Brian Kinney (Gale Harold):
  Hey, you try spending an evening with some back-slapping breeder from out of town, smoking cigars, and talking about pussy.
- 2010, Walter Lape, Alaska Waters, The Hudson Press, →ISBN:
  My father spoke in a quiet, measured voice that gradually increased in tempo and in volume, “Travis, suppose everyone at this table were gay except you, and I called you a trailer-trash breeder?”
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.
(cellular automata) 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.

Derived terms

fast-breeder reactor
stockbreeder
weather breeder

Related terms

breed
breeder reactor
breeding
brood
brooding
purebred, pure-bred

Translations

(professional) plant or animal breeder

Catalan: criador m, criadora f
Finnish: jalostaja (plant), kasvattaja (fi) (animal)
French: éleveur (fr) m, éleveuse (fr) f
Galician: criador m, criadora f
German: Züchter (de) m, Züchterin (de) f, Pflanzenzüchter m (plant), Pflanzenzüchterin f (plant), Tierzüchter (de) m (animal), Tierzüchterin (de) f (animal)
Greek: κτηνοτρόφος (el) m or f (ktinotrófos)
Malay: pembiak baka
Polish: hodowca (pl) m, hodowczyni f
Portuguese: criador (pt) m, criadora (pt) f
Romanian: crescător (ro) m, crescătoare (ro) f
Russian: селекционе́р (ru) m (selekcionér)
Spanish: criador (es) m, criadora (es) f
Swedish: uppfödare (sv) c

slang, derogatory: person focussed on the rearing of their children

Latvian: vaislenieks m
Portuguese: reprodutor (pt) m
Romanian: reproducător (ro) m
Russian: производи́тель (ru) m (proizvodítelʹ)

heterosexual

Finnish: hetsku (fi)
German: Hete (de) m or f
Swedish: hetero (sv) n

type of nuclear reactor

Finnish: hyötöreaktori (fi)
German: Brüter m, Brutreaktor (de) m
Italian: autofertilizzante (it)
Russian: бри́дер (ru) m (brídɛr), реа́ктор-размножи́тель (ru) m (reáktor-razmnožítelʹ)
Swedish: brider c, bridreaktor (sv) c

pattern in cellular automation

Finnish: synnyttäjä (fi)

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Translations to be checked

Czech: ^{(please verify)} chovatel (cs) m, ^{(please verify)} šlechtitel m
Dutch: (1) ^{(please verify)} kweker (nl) m
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 育雛器 (いくすうき) (1, only animals)
Vietnamese: (1) ^{(please verify)} người chăn nuôi

Anagrams

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