Difference between Half-breed and Breed

Half-breed

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having one purebred parent; hybrid

Breed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To sexually produce offspring.Of animals, to mate.To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation's qualities.To arrange the mating of specific animals.To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.To make sure that one's young grow up to adulthood.To yield or result in.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies eg. a breed of tulip, a breed of animal.A race or lineage.

Example sentence: In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.