Strain
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Treasure. The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg. Race; lineage, pedigree. a tune, melody A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition. A kind or sort (of person etc.). The amount by which a material deforms under stress or force, given as a ratio of the deformation to the initial dimension of the material and typically symbolised by ε is termed the engineering strain. The true strain is defined as the natural logarithm of the ratio of the final dimension to the initial dimension.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch too far. To apply a force or forces to To tighten the strings of a musical instrument; to uplift one's voice To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
Example sentence: If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
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: No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.