Crossword clues for reproduce
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reproduce \Re`pro*duce"\ (r?`pr?-d?s"), v. t. To produce again. Especially:
To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play.
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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. 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.
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
Wiktionary
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
v. make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting"
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]
recreate an idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. as by artistic means; "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait"
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.