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Reproduce

Definitions: Reproduce

Reproduce

Verb

1. Make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting".

2. Have offspring or young.

3. Recreate an idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. as by artistic means; "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait".

4. Repeat after memorization; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reproduce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Reproduce

Synonyms: multiply (v), procreate (v), regurgitate (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Reproduce

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Imitation

Verb: imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel.

Repetition

Verb: repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble.

Reproduction

Verb: reproduce; restore; revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate; remake, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible; multiply, repeat; resurge.

Restoration

Resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life; reproduce; warm up; reinvigorate, refresh.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Reproduce

English words defined with "reproduce": asexually, audio CD, audio compact discbacteria, bacterium, benday, bryozoancatch, Chlorococcales, class Oomycetes, copy, cryptogamdisc, disk, dynamic headroomfamily Saccharomycetaceae, fern, Fissiparagenerative, genus Marchantia, genus Saccharomyces, get, Graticulationhalftone, halftone engraving, headroomimitate, impress, Impuberty, irreproducibleMarchantia, moneran, moneron, moss animalOomycetes, order Chlorococcalesphonograph record, phonograph recording, photocopy, photoengraving, platter, play back, polyzoan, print, procreative, proliferatequadruplicaterecord, Regeneratory, replay, reproducer, reproductive, run offSaccharomyces, Saccharomycetaceae, scan, sea mat, sea moss, simulate, sterilisation, sterilizationtriplicateunreproduciblexeroxyeast, Yeast plant. (references)
Specialty definitions using "reproduce": additive complementary colors, additive complementary colours, Antifungal Agents, ARTIST, SUSPECT, audio engineer, AUDIO OPERATOR, audio technicianBRAILLE-DUPLICATING-MACHINE OPERATOR, braille-thermoform operatorcard reproducer, chemosterilant, contact-frame operator, country printerDental Articulators, die cutter, die engraver, DIE MAKER, DUPLICATING-MACHINE OPERATOR Iengraving photographergallery testing, gender system, graphic arts technician, Guided Tissue RegenerationHYDROELECTRIC-MACHINERY MECHANIC, Hypoxia/Hypoxic WatersINSTANT PRINT OPERATORLIBRARIAN, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, lithographic-camera operatormeasurement standard, monoclonal antibody technologyoffset-duplicating machine operator, instant print, OFFSET-DUPLICATING-MACHINE OPERATORPantone, PHOTOCOPYING-MACHINE OPERATOR, PHOTOGRAPHER, LITHOGRAPHIC, PHOTOGRAPHER, PHOTOENGRAVING, photolithographic process worker, plant machinist, press operator, instant print shop, printer, small print shop, process-camera operatorquick print operatorRascadera, reproducing machine, reproducing punch, reproducing unit, RESTORER, CERAMIC, RESTORER, PAPER-AND-PRINTSSarcoma Virus, Feline, SCREEN MAKER, sex system, sexually compatible plant population, SIDEROGRAPHER, sound engineer, audio control, string drive, string drive for involute motion, SUPERVISOR, DECORATING, SUPERVISOR, PATTERN MARKINGtape duplicator, TAPE TRANSFERRER, TEACHER AIDE II, teacher aide, clerical, TEMPLATE REPRODUCTION TECHNICIAN, tonal range, tooling reproduction technicianWOOD-CARVING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Reproduce" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (breed, copy, imitate, repeat, reproduce).

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Modern Usage: Reproduce

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Karl, that is unnecessary destruction of public property and that is not how stegosauruses reproduce. (Dinotopia; writing credit: James Gurney; Simon Moore)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Reproduce

DomainTitle

Books

  • After a Fashion: How to Reproduce, Restore, and Wear Vintage Styles (reference)

  • Born to Reproduce (reference)

  • Fish and How They Reproduce (reference)

  • Frogs, Toads, Salamanders and How They Reproduce (reference)

  • Making life : how we reproduce and grow (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Reproduce

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Shown are electron micrographs of the family of retroviruses that reproduce in t-lymphocytes. Retroviruses, which cause a variety of naturally occurring cancers in many animal species, also cause cancers in human beings. The first two human retroviruses to be discovered and characterized, human t-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) and type II (HTLV-II), have been associated with the human cancers known, respectively, as adult t-cell leukemia and hairy cell leukemia. HTLV-III is the AIDS virus, now called HIV-I. Epidemiologic studies have shown that HTLV-I infection and t-cell malignancy both cluster in certain geographic areas and in certain populations, and suggest that transmission occurs in the household, through sexual contacts, and perhaps at birth. See artwork: GR-30.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Barbed wire and barbed wire fence covered by drifting sand, with tumbleweed growing up all around. This is in a section which in one day is reputed to reproduce forty bushels of wheat to the acre. Near Syracuse, Kansas.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Reproduce

AuthorQuotation

Oscar Wilde

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Reproduce

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

What, therefore, the wage-labourer appropriates by means of his labour, merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Reproduce

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

We shall reproduce Eden by A+B.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Reproduce

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Viruses are so simple that, in order to reproduce, they need to invade a living cell and use the cell's machinery. (references)

Beyond Web listings, in many cases we will reproduce brief summaries or abstracts of available reference materials. (references)

In the search for them, scientists are studying a phenomenon known as visual memory--the ability to remember and reproduce geometric patterns, for instance. (references)

Economic History

Sweden

Copyright includes the sole right to produce and reproduce the work or a translation of it; to publish such a work or translation; to perform it in public; and to authorize others to do so. (references)

Israel

Protections include the exclusive right to (a) copy or reproduce the work; (b) translate or otherwise adapt the work; (c) distribute copies of the work; and (d) publicly communicate the work. (references)

Bolivia

Bolivian copyright protection includes the exclusive right: to copy or reproduce work; to revise, adapt or prepare derivative works; to distribute copies of the work; and to communicate the work publicly. (references)

Political Economy

SAUDI ARABIA

The regulation was patterned along the lines of the U.S. patent law, but does not reproduce it. The terms of patent protection are generally adequate, but the period of protection is fifteen years, five years less than the international TRIPS standards. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Reproduce

"Reproduce" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 73.64% of the time. "Reproduce" is used about 625 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)73.64%46112,730
Lexical Verb (base form)26.36%16524,305
                    Total100.00%625N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reproduce

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  being by comes earth energy feed from living move original reproduce source used

34

  reproduce

16

  bird reproduce

7

  animal reproduce

6

  plant reproduce

6

  living reproduce things

5

  fish reproduce

4

  snail reproduce

4

  reproduce whale

3

  chicken reproduce

3

  reproduce snake

3

  fish reproduce star

2

  clam reproduce

2

  dog reproduce

2

  cat reproduce

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reproduce

Language Translations for "reproduce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rivendos (re establish, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recuperate, redintegrate, redress, re-edify, reinstate, rejuvenate, renew, repair, replace), riprodhoj (clone, facsimile, print, propagate, render), bëj kopje (duplicate, manifold). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نسخ (copy, countermand, duplication, engross, mimeograph, reduplicate, reproduction, supersede, transcribe, transcription), ‏حدث مرة ثانية, ‏تكاثر (breed, generation, increase, luxuriate, mushroom, proliferate, proliferation, propagate, propagation, prosper, replicate, reproduction, spawn, swarm), ‏تناسل (breed, multiply, procreation, propagate, propagation, reproduction), ‏توالد (breed, luxuriate, proliferate, proliferation, propagate, propagation, replicate, reproduction, spawn), ‏إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fall out, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll), ‏إستنسخ ثانية, ‏إستنطق الاسطوانة, ‏أنتج ثانية, ‏أنتج (afford, bear, breed, create, do, generate, grow, induce, issue, make, originate, output, procreate, produce, push along, result, spawn, turn out). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

размножавам (layer, manifold, multiply, propagate), вадя копие от, произвеждам отново, препечатвам (reprint), предавам (carry, convey, deliver, denounce, get through, give, give in, give over, give up, hand in, hand over, impart, pass along, pass in, pass round, put out, render, resign, sell down the river, sell out, send, send on, send out, submit, transfuse, turn over, yield), поставям отново, повтарям (echo, geminate, go over, ingeminate, re echo, recrudesce, reduplicate, rehearse, renew, repeat, replay, rerun, say over), подновявам (do up, furbish, novelise, novelize, redintegrate, refurbish, renew, renovate, reopen, restore, resume, revamp, take up, vamp). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

繁殖 (breed, propagate), (grow), 再"产 (reproduction). (various references)

   

Czech

  

reprodukovat (copy, repeat), zplodit (beget, conceive, engender, father, procreate, sire), znovu vytvořit, tvořit (coin, constitute, create, generate, make up), obnovit (give back, re establish, rebuild, redintegrate, regenerate, reinstate, renew, renovate, restore, resume, retrieve, revamp, revive, rub up), kopírovat (copy, duplicate, trace). (various references)

   

Danish

  

for at anskueliggoere aandedraetsorganets virkemaade kan man enten simulere den oejeblikkelige aflejring af stoev i lungen, eller langtidsaflejringen, under hensyntagen til lungens evne til selvrensning (in order to reproduce the functioning of the bronchopulmonary system either by simulating lung retention at a given moment or by simulating cumulative retention, while taking into account pulmonary clearance phenomena). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

weergeven (give back, play back, render, return), reproduceren (give back, render, return). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

reprodukti (render). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

چاپ کردن (Print, Publish), تکثیرکردن (Mimeograph, Muliply), دوباره ساختن (Repeat). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

jäljentää (copy, to copy). (various references)

   

French

  

reproduire (repeat, replicate), se reproduire (recur), lire (read, to read), exécuter, copier. (various references)

   

German

  

wiedergeben (convey, describe, echo, give an account of, give back, perform, picture, play back, recite, recount, regive, render, repeat, represent, restore, return, to play back, to regive, translate), nacharbeiten (copy, finish, imitate, patel, touch up, work over), fortpflanzen (propagate, to reproduce). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναπαράγω (breed, to duplicate). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ליצור שוב, לל"ת (bear, bring forth, give birth, have, procreate), לשעתק (play back), לשחזר (recapture, reconstruct, restore), ל"תרבות (breed, increase, multiply, proliferate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

reprodukál (to reproduce), felelevenít (bring back, brush up, to brush up, to evoke, to recall, to resuscitate, to revive, vivify). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

membanyakkan (in crease, multiply). (various references)

   

Italian

  

riprodursi (breed), riprodurre (borrow, breed, copy, copy-machine, duplicate, repeat). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(copy, describe, duplicate, photograph, picture, trace, transcribe). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゃ (borrowing, copy, describe, duplicate, gauze, house, hut, inn, mansion, now, photograph, picture, then, trace, transcribe, well). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

재생하십시" (recycle, reprocess). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo macsoylley jeh, jannoo coip jeh (copy, crib, duplicate), g'aa-ymmyrk magh, aahayrn (redraw, reproduction), aagymmyrkey magh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eproduceray

   

Portuguese

  

restaurar (bring through, do up, freshen, furcate, make up, re establish, realign, recondition, reconstruct, recover, redintegrate, repair, restore, retrieve, rub up, to clear, to reset, to restore), reproduzir-se (multipurpose), reproduzir (breed, copy, propagation, to duplicate), produzir de novo, multiplicar-se de novo, multiplicar (duplicate, multiply), gerar (beget, breed, bring forth, conceive, create, engender, father, gene, generate, procreate, sire, teem). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

reproduce (breed, copy, imitate, repeat), reprezenta (body, depict, describe, give, imagine, make, picture, present, produce, represent, signify, sit for a borough, typify), reda (convey, express, render, restore, return), se reproduce (breed, recur), prezenta (arise, bear, bring, carry forth, display, exhibit, expound, file, give, give in, have, hold forth, hold up, introduce, offer, paint, picture, present, produce, put forward, put in, recommend, represent, set forth, show, submit, tender), prãsi (breed, cultivate, rear), copia (copy, copy down, counterfeit, crib, forge, imitate, plagiarize, print, transcribe). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

воспроизводить (reconstitute, render). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

reprodukovati, stvarati (create, erect, make, produce), prikazati (cover, present, represent, review, section, show), povratiti (heave, reclaim, restore, resume, retrieve, vomit), množiti se (breed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reproducir (depict, introduce, offer, play back, present, present with, put on the stage, render, represent, tender). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

reproducera, avbilda (copy, depict, depicture, figure, map, paint, picture, to), återskapa (recreate), återge (give back, render). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

reprodüksiyon yapmak, yenisini yapmak, yeniden üretmek, türetmek (derive), kopyasını çıkarmak (copy, copy out), çoğaltmak (aggrandize, augment, clone, copy, increase, manifold, multiply, propagate, scale up), çoğalmak (accrue, augment, breed, gain, go off, heighten, increase, mount up, multiply, proliferate, pullulate). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

репродукувати, відтворювати (copy, play back, reconstitute), породжувати (breed, bring forth, engender, father, gender, generate, germinate, mother, originate, procreate, proliferate, spawn). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

atgynhyrchu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Reproduce

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

refero. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reproduce

Derivations

Words beginning with "reproduce": reproduced, reproducer, reproducers, reproduces. (additional references)

Words ending with "reproduce": outreproduce. (additional references)

Words containing "reproduce": outreproduced, outreproduces. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Reproduce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Euroluce, reprod, reprodu, reproduc, reproducde, reproduct, retroussee. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Reproduce"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "reproduce" (pronounced rē'pruduw"s)
6-p r u d uw" soverproduce, produce.
5-r u d uw" sintroduce, reduce, reintroduce.
4-u d uw" sdeduce, seduce.
3-d uw" sDeuce, Duce, induce.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Reproduce

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: procedure.

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-o-p-r-r-u"

-1 letter: precured, procured, producer, recouped, repoured.

-2 letters: perdure, precode, precure, proceed, procure, produce, prouder, recoupe, reducer.

-3 letters: corder, couped, creped, croupe, cruder, curred, dorper, dourer, ordure, perdue, poured, pourer, pureed, purred, recode, record, recoup, reduce, repour, rouped.

-4 letters: ceder, cered, coder, coped, coper, cored, corer, coude, coupe, credo, creed, creep, crepe, crore, croup, crude, cruor.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-o-p-r-r-u"
 

+1 letter: procedures, reproduced, reproducer, reproduces.

 

+2 letters: overproduce, reproducers.

 

+3 letters: outreproduce, overproduced, overproduces, reproducible, reproductive.

 

+4 letters: hyperproducer, outreproduced, outreproduces, reproducibles, reproductives, supercollider.

 

+5 letters: hyperproducers, irreproducible, preconstructed, reproductively, supercolliders.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reproduce


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 70 72 6F 64 75 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    .--.    .-.    ---    -..    ..-    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100100 01110101 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#112 &#114 &#111 &#100 &#117 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0070 0072 006F 0064 0075 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527182848170876971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Historic
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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