Definitions for reproduce
ˌri prəˈdus, -ˈdyusre·pro·duce

Princeton's WordNet(3.50 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. reproduce(verb)

   make a copy or equivalent of

   "reproduce the painting"

2. reproduce, procreate, multiply(verb)

   have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant

   "The Bible tells people to procreate"

3. reproduce(verb)

   recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.

   "this DVD player reproduces the sound of the piano very well"; "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait"

4. regurgitate, reproduce(verb)

   repeat after memorization

   "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. reproduce(Verb)

   to produce an image or copy of something

2. reproduce(Verb)

   to generate offspring (sexually or asexually)

3. reproduce(Verb)

   to produce again; to recreate

4. reproduce(Verb)

   to bring something to mind; to recall

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Reproduce(verb)

   to produce again

2. Reproduce(verb)

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

3. Reproduce(verb)

   to cause to exist again

4. Reproduce(verb)

   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

5. Reproduce(verb)

   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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Reproduce

   rē-prō-dūs′, v.t. to produce again: to form anew: to propagate: to represent.—n. Reprodū′cer, one who reproduces: the diaphragm used in producing speech in the phonograph.—adj. Reprodū′cible.—n. Reproduc′tion, the act of producing new organisms—the whole process whereby life is continued from generation to generation: repetition.—adj. Reproduc′tive, tending to reproduce.—ns. Reproduc′tiveness, Reproductiv′ity.—adj. Reproduc′tory.—Reproductive faculty, the faculty of the association of ideas; Reproductive organs (bot.), the organs appropriate to the production of seeds or spines: (zool.) the generative system.

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'reproduce' in Verbs Frequency: #820

Anagrams for reproduce »

1. procedure

How to pronounce reproduce?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of reproduce in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of reproduce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of reproduce in a Sentence

1. Anonymous:

   If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes.

2. Caroline Jarrett:

   These tools make it relatively easy to reproduce the form you currently have, they don’t help you figure out if that is the form you ought to have.

3. Hugh Perry:

   We now need to find something to reproduce the effect of brain cooling. We need to find drugs which can induce the effects of hibernation and hypothermia.

4. John Rogers:

   We can monitor all vital signs, cardiac activity, blood oxygenation, breathing, we can monitor crying, we can monitor motion to determine how restless the baby is, we can get a pretty good surrogate for blood pressure. So we fully reproduce all vital signs that are measured as a standard of care in [ a ] NICU unit.

5. Edward Chang:

   It's been a longstanding goal of our lab to create technologies to restore communication for patients with severe speech disability, we want to create technologies that can reproduce speech directly from human brain activity. This study provides a proof of principle that this is possible.

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