Meaning of REPRODUCE
| Pronunciation: | | `reepru'doos
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- [v] have offspring or young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly"; "The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be"
- [v] repeat after memorization; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information"
- [v] make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting"
- [v] recreate an idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. as by artistic means; "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait"
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| | Synonyms: | | multiply, procreate, regurgitate |
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| | See Also: | | breed, brood, catch, copy, cover, create, create, double, duplicate, echo, fingerprint, fructify, get, hatch, imitate, incubate, make, make, photocopy, play back, print, produce, propagate, quadruplicate, re-create, reduplicate, reissue, repeat, repeat, replay, replicate, reprint, run off, set, simulate, triplicate, xerox | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Re`pro*duce"\ (r?`pr?-d?s"), v. t.
To produce again. Especially:
(a) To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to
reproduce charges; to reproduce a play.
(b) To cause to exist again.
Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all
those rays with those their colors are mixed again
they reproduce the same white light as before.
--Sir I.
Newton.
(c) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the
existence of (something of the same class, kind, or
nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as
offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are
reproduced by gemmation.
(d) To make an image or other representation of; to portray;
to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a
copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble,
or on canvas; to reproduce a design.
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