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Definitions: Reproduce |
ReproduceVerb1. 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: ReproduceSynonyms: multiply (v), procreate (v), regurgitate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. |
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Screenplays | Karl, that is unnecessary destruction of public property and that is not how stegosauruses reproduce. (Dinotopia; writing credit: James Gurney; Simon Moore) | |
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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. | |
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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. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | What, therefore, the wage-labourer appropriates by means of his labour, merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We shall reproduce Eden by A+B. |
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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) |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 73.64% | 461 | 12,730 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 26.36% | 165 | 24,305 |
| Total | 100.00% | 625 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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 |
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| 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), 殖 (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 | 写 (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 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) 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) воспроизводить (reconstitute, render). (various references) 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) reproducir (depict, introduce, offer, play back, present, present with, put on the stage, render, represent, tender). (various references) reproducera, avbilda (copy, depict, depicture, figure, map, paint, picture, to), återskapa (recreate), återge (give back, render). (various references) 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) репродукувати, відтворювати (copy, play back, reconstitute), породжувати (breed, bring forth, engender, father, gender, generate, germinate, mother, originate, procreate, proliferate, spawn). (various references) atgynhyrchu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | refero. (various references) |
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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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reproduce" (pronounced rē'pruduw"s) |
| 6 | -p r u d uw" s | overproduce, produce. |
| 5 | -r u d uw" s | introduce, reduce, reintroduce. |
| 4 | -u d uw" s | deduce, seduce. |
| 3 | -d uw" s | Deuce, Duce, induce. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 72 6F 64 75 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. .-. --- -.. ..- -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100100 01110101 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p r o d u c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 0072 006F 0064 0075 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527182848170876971 |
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