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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reproduce
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
below
▪ The sequence which emerged is reproduced below.
▪ I showed him the diagram which I reproduce below.
▪ The table visualizing the essentials of the contrast between the modal and main verb uses is reproduced below.
here
▪ We reproduce here Joseph Kosuth's reply, reversed out, in Kosuth's own style.
▪ Most of the 54 stories reproduced here, even the previously published ones, were, for all practical purposes, lost.
▪ This contract, which is reproduced here, is a typical example of a standard form contract found in the haulage industry.
▪ The model we set out earlier in Chapter 6 is reproduced here in Figure 16.
▪ The article by Hilary Land reproduced here indicates that some changes in the social security system are now taking place.
▪ Instead she has her own Ice Magic spell deck which is reproduced here.
▪ These are reproduced here by permission of the Linnean Society of London. 5.
▪ The photo reproduced here shows how perfectly the painting was aged by the artist.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ Such a differentiation could be as fundamental as life's ability to reproduce.
▪ Experiments have demonstrated the ability to reproduce classical conditioning phenomena and robot control simulations.
▪ We are all well acquainted with that other property of living things - their ability to reproduce themselves.
▪ Medical science takes much credit for this, with its stunning ability to reproduce images of internal functions and space through X-rays.
▪ Most of these errors would have been fatal to the survival of the organism or its ability to reproduce.
▪ The key of life is its ability to reproduce slightly out of kilter rather than with exactitude.
▪ This reduces their ability to reproduce.
▪ The ability to reproduce is what makes living things different from rocks.
appendix
▪ Twenty papers are reproduced and an appendix lists the contents of Margaret's library.
▪ This is reproduced in full in Appendix D, p. 105, post, and should be carefully studied.
▪ It is reproduced in Appendix 8 for information.
▪ The results of the study are reproduced as Appendix B to this report.
▪ The full text of the incident, including a short editorial, is reproduced in full in the appendix to this article.
▪ We reproduce in the appendix one that our new church planting team are currently using.
figure
▪ A diagrammatic simplification is reproduced as Figure 1.
▪ Recall Figure 16.10: it is reproduced as Figure 18.2.
▪ The result of their efforts is reproduced in Figure 9.1, and Table 9.1 shows the sources of these estimates.
▪ The model we set out earlier in Chapter 6 is reproduced here in Figure 16.
▪ A chart of the distribution is reproduced as Figure 8.
▪ These have been analysed by one of the authors, and the results are reproduced in Figure 1.
form
▪ The Howard and Sheth model is reproduced in a simplified form in figure 12.1.
▪ Continuous tones can not be reproduced in that form for printing but must be screened to translate the image into dots.
▪ A letter, handwritten in purple ink with many curlicues, may have its text reproduced in printed form.
▪ On cosmology he generally followed Tycho Brahe, whose scheme he reproduced in diagrammatic form.
▪ He should be able to reproduce that Haydock form but you never know with horses, do you.
image
▪ But techniques of reproducing graphic images - illustrations - were very slow to develop.
▪ Medical science takes much credit for this, with its stunning ability to reproduce images of internal functions and space through X-rays.
▪ Exponentially reproducing pornographic images are populating cyberspace.
▪ Lancret may have seen Blaise in action and reproduced his image retrospectively.
▪ A pixel addressable printer can obviously reproduce a bit mapped image, and page description formats have developed to allow this.
▪ Reverse out to reproduce as a white image out of a solid background.
organism
▪ Consider a simple model of an organism that reproduces at just two ages.
▪ When the population size reaches a peak, few organisms succeed in reproducing.
▪ They can not bear the idea that living organisms can reproduce themselves on their own, at no cost.
▪ It just happens that mutations that construct organisms which reproduce more efficiently are conserved over time.
pattern
▪ The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes.
permission
▪ These are reproduced here by permission of the Linnean Society of London. 5.
▪ They may not be reproduced or retransmitted without permission.
photograph
▪ The Boston text reproduces old photographs of founding members.
▪ In 1856 the Bissons were reproducing and exhibiting photographs of contemporary works of art.
▪ In 1843 he set up the first printing workshop to reproduce photographs for sale.
▪ Temples of Convenience is richly illustrated, with sumptuously reproduced photographs of historical toilets.
▪ Lynne Groucutt can reproduce garden scenes from photographs - a lasting memento for friends or family.
sound
▪ A radio doesn't use a resonant cavity because its speaker must reproduce sounds over a wide range of frequencies.
▪ A subwoofer, to reproduce strong bass sounds, is in a floor-level compartment of the cabinet.
work
▪ It is conceivable that they could even be denied permission to reproduce their own work.
▪ It gives you the exclusive right to reproduce your work.
■ VERB
attempt
▪ It is not usually necessary to attempt to reproduce the conditions of a particular market.
▪ Plastic Moguls For over 15 years, artificial slope designers have attempted to reproduce that unique phenomenon of skiing, the mogul.
▪ Whilst matrix isolation attempts to reproduce this situation, the target molecules are in intimate contact with the matrix material.
▪ The brain should never be given contradictory clues when we attempt to reproduce any of the senses.
live
▪ The virus lives and reproduces within the bloodstream.
▪ They can not bear the idea that living organisms can reproduce themselves on their own, at no cost.
survive
▪ These drives may have their foundation in the overriding needs to survive and to reproduce.
▪ So they may survive longer, and reproduce more than those without the improved sight.
▪ As with any plant, the aim of the yew is to survive and reproduce.
▪ The organisms with these errors would be more likely to survive and reproduce.
▪ Poor farmers value an animal not by growth rate or milk yield, but by its ability to survive and reproduce.
try
▪ I don't try to reproduce the place, but the light of the place.
▪ The infant tries to reproduce events that interest him or her.
▪ Gamble challenged the ad after it tried 85 times to reproduce the results.
▪ He would memorize them, then try to reproduce them, but without success.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jellyfish reproduce by releasing eggs and sperm into the sea.
▪ Letters and rare maps are handsomely reproduced in the book.
▪ People have a natural instinct to both reproduce and to care for their young.
▪ Scientists were unable to reproduce the results claimed on the television program.
▪ We'll need to ask the New Yorker for permission to reproduce the cartoon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, as a result of that, it is likely to reproduce faster.
▪ Even a single writer is seldom able to reproduce exactly the same writing.
▪ How easy would it be to reproduce this approach elsewhere?
▪ Khomeinis denunciation was widely reproduced and popular.
▪ Offwidth is proud to reproduce it here, as a model for future historians of our sport.
▪ Some diagrams are poorly reproduced and tables printed vertically.
▪ The method of reproducing the copies is hasty and inaccurate, so defects accumulate especially fast there.
▪ With no chance of old age, evolution favoured those that reproduced as soon as they could.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reproduce

Reproduce \Re`pro*duce"\ (r?`pr?-d?s"), v. t. To produce again. Especially:

  1. To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reproduce

1610s, "to produce again," from re- "again" + produce (v.), probably on model of French reproduire (16c.). Sense of "make a copy" is first recorded 1850; that of "produce offspring" is from 1894. Related: Reproduced; reproducing.

Wiktionary
reproduce

vb. 1 To produce an image or copy of something. 2 (context biology English) To generate offspring (sexually or asexually), or organisms. 3 To produce again; to recreate. 4 To bring something to mind; to recall.

WordNet
reproduce
  1. v. make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting"

  2. 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" [syn: procreate, multiply]

  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" [syn: regurgitate]

Usage examples of "reproduce".

New Riviera was entirely too accommodating to imported species to allow anything out into the wild without official approval, where it would like as not reproduce and thrive like mad.

Nobody had realized that the male drive to reproduce was still so fierce among the men of the Affluence, educated in the philosophy of Presentism.

Heaven were reproduced on earth, until a web of fiction and allegory was woven, partly by art and partly by the ignorance of error, which the wit of man, with his limited means of explanation, will never unravel.

Naturally it followed that Symbolism soon became more complicated, and all the powers of Heaven were reproduced on earth, until a web of fiction and allegory was woven, which the wit of man, with his limited means of explanation, will never unravel.

That, perhaps, would be learned by heart and reproduced elsewhere underground, imperfect memory blurring the sharp elegance but perhaps not wholly losing that name, in some allomorph or other.

In the particular instance of which I have given you a relation, Mircalla seemed to be limited to a name which, if not her real one, should at least reproduce, without the omission or addition of a single letter, those, as we say, anagrammatically, which compose it.

To this pleasurable feeling is easily added the effort, at favorable opportunity, to reproduce the product of the apperception, to supplement and deepen it, to unite it to other ideas, and so further to extend certain chains of thought.

Tell me, O Darwin, shall we know on this side of the grave why or how the Adiantum Nigrum and Asplenium capillis Veneris, have reproduced themselves, or, to be more correct, have produced ghosts and fetches of themselves at the antipodes?

When the multitude works, it produces autonomously and reproduces the entire world of life.

Producing and reproducing autonomously mean constructing a new ontological reality.

We could also assume that one of the cyborg-bacteria has hooked up to his auditory nerve in the same way as it did to yours, the only difference being that your bacteria is recording electrical pulses coming from your ear, while his bacteria is reproducing these pulses, inducing them in his auditory nerve.

Genetic engineering solved this problem: scientists could synthesize the genes that code for the production of myelin toxin, reproduce them artificially in the lab, and insert them into bacterial cells.

In the 1930s scientists found that when certain chemical dyes containing sulphur were added to bacterial cultures, the bacteria reproduced at dramatically slower rates.

The occupants go and rewrite the code of that cell to reproduce more bacteriophages and the cycle continues.

This was the microdot, a photograph the size of a printed period that reproduced with perfect clarity a standard-sized typewritten letter.