variëteit — meaning in English

English meaning

• breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
• manifold adj Existing in many different forms or kinds.
• variety noun A deviation or difference.

Senses

variëteit is used for these senses in English:

• breed All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
• manifold (mathematics) A Hausdorff topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space \mathbb{R}^n.
• variety (linguistics) A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level; an isolect or lect.

breed — full definition

1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

manifold — full definition

1. adj Existing in many different forms or kinds.
2. noun A pipe fitting that connects several inlets or outlets into one system.

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