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raça — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  • kind noun A type or category of thing that shares common features with others.
  • race noun A contest to see who is fastest at reaching a goal.

Senses

raça is used for these senses in English:

  • breed All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
  • breed A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
  • kind (type theory) The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
  • race A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
  • race A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.

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.

kind — full definition

  1. noun A type or category of thing that shares common features with others.
  2. adj Friendly, generous, and considerate toward others.

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