Propagate

Definition: Propagate

Propagate

Verb

1. Transmit from one generation to the next, of characteristics.

2. Travel through the air, of sound or light.

3. Transmit, as in physics; "propagate sound or light through air, for example".

4. Transmit; "This great civilization was propagated throughout the land".

5. Cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news".

6. Cause (plants) to propagate, as by grafting or layering.

7. Multiply sexually or asexually, in biology.

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

Date "propagate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Propagate \Prop"a*gate\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Propagated; Propagating.]. (Websters 1913)

Mining

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Synonyms: Propagate

Production

Make productive; create; beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate; procreate, progenerate, propagate; engender; bring into being, call into being, bring into existence; breed, hatch, develop, bring up.

Publication

Verb: publish; make public, make known; (information); speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice.

Crosswords: Propagate

Books

• Foolproof Planting: How to Successfully Start and Propagate More Than 250 Vegetables, Flowers, Trees, and Shrubs (reference)

• Gardener's Home Companion/How to Raise and Propagate More Than 350 Flowers, Herbs, Vegetables, Berries, Shrubs, Vines, and Lawn and Ornamental Grasse (reference)

• How to Propagate Plants (reference)

• Propagate Your Own Plants (reference)

• The complete book of lilies; how to select, plant, care for, exhibit, and propagate lilies of all types (reference)

  (more book examples)

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I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed.

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Business

However, central and local governments must first overcome the problems of capital shortages and bureaucratic obstacles, propagate new technology, and transform the Chinese farmer's ingrained farming practices that tend to be inefficient. (references)

Civil Liberties

Finland

Nontraditional religious groups freely profess and propagate their beliefs. (references)

Brunei

In the past, the Government has not hesitated to arrest those who attempted to propagate unwelcome political views. (references)

China

The Party and Government continue to control many--and, on occasion, all--print and broadcast media tightly, and use them to propagate the current ideological line. (references)

Minorities

Russia

The report details how these regional educators and administrators propagate conspiracy theories and negative stereotypes about Jews. (references)

Political Economy

Maldives

The President derives additional influence from his constitutional roles as the "Supreme authority to propagate the tenets of Islam." Political parties officially are discouraged, and candidates for the unicameral legislature, the People's Majlis, run as individuals. (references)

THE BAHAMAS

In June 1996, the Ministry announced a ban on the importation of fruits, vegetables, flowers, plants or other propagate materials from Caribbean countries unless the Department of Agriculture is assured that the country is free of the pink (or hibiscus) mealy bug. (references)

Political Rights

Panama

The Government respected the rights of its citizens to join any political party, propagate their views, and vote for candidates of their choice. (references)

Maldives

The Constitution gives Shari'a preeminence over civil law and designates the President as the "supreme authority to propagate the tenets" of Islam. (references)

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

Albanian

përhap (bruit, delate, develop, diffuse, dilate, disseminate, distribute, introduce, let out, permeate, promulgate, radiate, slop, spread, start, Ted, transmit), shumoj, shtoj (add, add to, add up, advance, append, attach, augment, compound, count in, eke out, enclose, enhance, heighten, inclose, increase, intensify, intercalate, lend, multiply, put on, pyramid, raise, redouble, refill, subjoin, superinduce, supplement), shtohem (accrue, augment, breed, flare up, grow, multiply, proliferate, pullulate, stiffen, swell, wax), riprodhoj (clone, facsimile, print, render, reproduce). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقل إلي الذرية, ‏نقل (alien, alienate, assign, bandy, carriage, carry, carry forward, communicate, convection, convey, conveyance, copy, deliver, freight, go cart, hand on, handling, pass on, pipe, portage, promotion, relocate, remove, reproduction, route, shift, take away, tote, transfer, transference, transfuse, transit, transmission, transmit, transport, transportation), ‏تكاثر (breed, generation, increase, luxuriate, mushroom, proliferate, proliferation, propagation, prosper, replicate, reproduce, reproduction, spawn, swarm), ‏تناسل (breed, multiply, procreation, propagation, reproduce, reproduction), ‏توالد (breed, luxuriate, proliferate, proliferation, propagation, replicate, reproduce, reproduction, spawn), ‏عمم (generalize, popularize), ‏إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fall out, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll), ‏أذاع (bandy, blazon, break, broadcast, celebrate, circulate, cry, proclaim, promulgate, publish, radio, transmit, vend), ‏أشاع (noise, popularize, rumor, rumour, spread, strew), ‏بث (beam, broadcast, propagation, radio, telecast, transmission, transmit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развъждам (multiply, plant, raise, rear), размножавам (layer, manifold, multiply, reproduce), разпространявам (broadcast, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, generalize, overspread, promulgate, purvey, put about, tell around), въдя (breed), наплодявам (multiply), множа се, плодя се (breed, increase, multiply, spawn), плодя (breed, generate, produce). (various references)

Chinese 

繁殖 (breed, reproduce). (various references)

Czech

propagovat (advance, boost), rozmnožovat se, rozšiřovat se (open out). (various references)

Danish

propagere. (various references)

Dutch

voortplanten. (various references)

Farsi 

پروردن (Breed, Encourage, Feed, Form, Harbor, Mother, Nurture, Rear, Train, Womb), منتشرکردن (Broadcast, Broaden, Disseminate, Print, Publish), قلمه زدن , گستردن (Layon, Spread), زیادکردن (Add, Augment, Enhance, Heighten, Increase, Raise), انتشاردادن (Advertise, Announce, Issue, Promulgate). (various references)

Finnish

edetä (advance, draw away, move on, pass on, proceed, progress). (various references)

French

propager, propagation (propagation), se propager. (various references)

German

verbreiten (bandy, blaze abroad, blazon, broadcast, broaden, bruit, circulate, circulation, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, give off, hawk about, let off, peddle, promulgate, put about, radiate, shed, spread, spread about, spread around, to bandy, to bruit, to diffuse, to disseminate, utter, vulgarize), fortpflanzen (reproduce, to reproduce). (various references)

Greek 

μεταδίδω (broadcast, communicate, convey, impart, pass on, transmit), προώθηση (forwarding, furtherance, promotion, propulsion), πολλαπλασιάζω (amplify, multiply, multiply by, proliferate), πολλαπλασιάζομαι (multiply, proliferate), διαδίδω (bruit, diffuse, disseminate, noise, promulgate, report, rumor, rumour, sound, spread), διαδίδομαι (go about, spread). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תפשט (expand, get about, pervade, spread, spread out, suffuse), ל�"פיץ (circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, promulgate, scatter, sow, spread). (various references)

Hungarian

propagál (propagandize, to propagandize, to propagate), terjeszt (distribute, propagandize, put about, strewed, strewn, to circulate, to diffuse, to hawk, to propagandize, to set afloat, to strew), szaporít (breed, increase, to augment, to multiply, to propagate). (various references)

Italian

propagazione (propagation, spread), propagarsi, propagare (spread). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

広める (to broaden, to propagate), 伝える (to bequeath, to communicate, to convey, to impart, to propagate, to report, to teach, to tell, to transmit), 仏教�'広める (to propagate Buddhism). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひろめる (to broaden, to propagate), ぶっきょう�'ひろめる (to propagate Buddhism), つたえる (to bequeath, to communicate, to convey, to impart, to propagate, to report, to teach, to tell, to transmit). (various references)

Korean 

� � � (publicizing). (various references)

Manx

sheelraghey (breed, breeding). (various references)

Pig Latin

opagatepray

Portuguese

propagar (diffuse, disseminate, promulgate, send, sow, transmit), propagação (convection, expanse, promulgation, propagation, spread, transmission), procriar (breed, generate, procreate), reproduzir (breed, copy, reproduce), espalhar (bestrew, blow, buzz, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, drift, drop, flecker, fleece, fling, intersperse, noise, overblow, overspread, promulgate, publish, put about, retail, rumor, rumour, run through, scatter, send, sow, spill, sprawl, spread, stretch, strew), divulgar (bruit, disclose, divulge, let on, noise, publicize, publish, reveal, rumor, rumour, spread, unclose, unveil), difundir (blow, broadcast, diffuse, disseminate, generalize, publish, radiate, send). (various references)

Romanian

propaga (disseminate, spread), spori (accrue, accumulate, advance, augment, enhance, enlarge, grow, heighten, improve, increase, intensify, make, multiply, spurt, step up, thicken), rãspândi (broadcast, carry, cast, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, Dot, emit, fling, float, give forth, give out, intersperse, irradiate, outspread, promulgate, radiate, release, retail, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw), difuza (broadcast, disseminate, distribute, irradiate, scatter, spread, strew), dezvolta (advance, amplify, cultivate, develop, enhance, evolve, expand, form, grow, Mold, mould, promote, work up), cultiva (crop, cultivate, culture, grow, plant, produce, raise, rear, till), creşte (accrue, advance, augment, be up, breed, bring, bring up, crop, cultivate, develop, draw out, educate, go up, grow, grow rife, heighten, increase, intensify, keep, make, Mount, multiply, nurse, nurture, produce, raise, rear, rise, school, spring, spurt, straggle, train, wax), înmulţi (augment, multiply, redouble), împrãştia (bestrew, break, diffuse, dispel, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, effuse, exude, fling, scatter, shoot out, spill, split up, spread, sprinkle, straggle, strew, throw about, vanish). (various references)

Russian 

распространяться (circulate, develop, dilate, enlarge, expatiate, gain ground, get about, get abroad, outspread, pervade, spread). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

propagirati, razmnožiti (grow), raširiti (broaden, diffuse, disseminate, fill, splay, spread, spread out, unfold, unfurl, widen). (various references)

Spanish

propagarse (spread), propagar (disseminate, spread). (various references)

Swedish

propagera, fortplanta (breed, reproduce, spread, transmit). (various references)

Turkish

propaganda yapmak (agitate, ballyhoo, canvass, make propaganda, propagandize), yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, evolve, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), yavrulamak (breed, calve, cub, drop, farrow, fawn, foal, have kitten, kid, kitten, litter, pig, pup, spawn, teem, throw, whelp, yean), bulaştırmak (bedabble, bedaub, besmear, blur, communicate, contaminate, corrupt, daub, dirty, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, implicate, infect, involve, inweave, slush, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spread, taint, transmit, twine), üretmek (breed, churn out, fabricate, generate, grow, incubate, manufacture, procreate, procure, produce, put out, turn out), üremek (be reproduced, increase, increase in numbers, proliferate, pullulate), çoğaltmak (aggrandize, augment, clone, copy, increase, manifold, multiply, reproduce, scale up). (various references)

Turkmen 

propagandirlemek (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

розмножуватися (breed, increase, multiply, proliferate, pullulate), розмножувати (manifold, multiply), поширювати (distribute, expand, extend, generalize, intend, noise, outstretch, promulgate, push, put about, radiate, retail, set about, shed, sow, spread, vend, widen). (various references)

propago-are. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "propagate": propagated, propagates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Propagate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: probagate, propagare, propalate, propegate, propgate, propigate, propogate, propqgate. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: parapet, portage.

-3 letters: agorae, aortae, appear, garote, grappa, orgeat, parget, potage, protea, ragtop, tapper, topper.

-4 letters: agape, agate, agora, aorta, apart, aport, apter, argot, ergot, gaper, gator, grape, grate, great, groat, grope, oater, opera, orate, pager, paper, parae, pareo, parge, pargo, pater, peart, prate, reata, repot, retag, taper, targe, terga, togae, toper, trope.

+1 letter: propagated, propagates.

+2 letters: propagative.

+5 letters: petrographical.