Breeding vs. Rearing — What's the Difference?

The mating and production of offspring by animals

To care for (children or a child) during the early stages of life; bring up. See Usage Note at raise.

The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity

To tend (growing plants or animals).

One's line of descent; ancestry

To build; erect.

Upbringing or education, especially in proper social behavior.

(Archaic) To lift upright; raise.

The production of offspring or young

To rise on the hind legs, as a horse.

The propagation of animals or plants

To rise high in the air; tower.

Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.

Present participle of rear

The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.

Act of raising young.

The act of copulation in animals.

The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.

Raising someone to be an accepted member of the community;

Nurture; education; formation of manners.

Rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile;

Descent; pedigree; extraction.

(gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.

Of, relating to or used for breeding.

Present participle of breed

The act or process of generating or bearing.

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

Nurture; education; formation of manners.

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.

Descent; pedigree; extraction.

Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior);

Raising someone to be an accepted member of the community;

The production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization

The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

Producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring;