PROPAGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does propagate mean? 

• PROPAGATE (verb)
  The verb PROPAGATE has 8 senses:

1. transmit from one generation to the next

2. travel through the air

3. transmit

4. become distributed or widespread

5. transmit or cause to broaden or spread

6. cause to become widely known

7. cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering

8. multiply sexually or asexually

  Familiarity information: PROPAGATE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPAGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they propagate    ... he / she / it propagates   
Past simple: propagated   
Past participle: propagated   
-ing form: propagating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transmit from one generation to the next

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

propagate these characteristics

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

pass on (give to or transfer possession of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

propagation (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Travel through the air

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

sound and light propagate in this medium

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Verb group:

propagate (transmit)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

propagation (the movement of a wave through a medium)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Transmit

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

propagate sound or light through air

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport (send from one person or place to another)

Verb group:

propagate (travel through the air)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

propagation (the movement of a wave through a medium)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Become distributed or widespread

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

propagate; spread

Context example:

Optimism spread among the population

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "propagate"):

catch (spread or be communicated)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Transmit or cause to broaden or spread

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

This great civilization was propagated throughout the land

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

distribute; spread (distribute or disperse widely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

propagation (the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Cause to become widely known

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread

Context example:

broadcast the news

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)

Cause:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

Verb group:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "propagate"):

podcast (distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer)

sow (introduce into an environment)

generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use)

carry; run (include as the content; broadcast or publicize)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

propagation (the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions)

propagator (someone who spreads the news)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Cause:

propagate (multiply sexually or asexually)

Domain category:

flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "propagate"):

inoculate (insert a bud for propagation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

propagation (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)

propagative (characterized by propagation or relating to propagation)

propagator (someone who propagates plants (as under glass))

Sense 8

Meaning:

Multiply sexually or asexually

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

multiply; procreate; reproduce (have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "propagate"):

vegetate (propagate asexually)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

propagation (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)

propagative (characterized by propagation or relating to propagation)

 Context examples 

As the sound waves propagate, they trap the electrons, pushing them through the device in a very precise way, as if the electrons are ‘surfing’ on the sound waves.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)

The insertion of a DNA sequence into a vector that can then be propagated in a host organism, generating a large number of copies of the sequence.

(Gene Cloning, NCI Thesaurus)

Activation of these kinases does not propagate a signal to the cell body though and does not induce a transcriptional response.

(Neuronal Survival Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

They can be propagated indefinitely in the primitive undifferentiated state while remaining pluripotent.

(ES Cell Line, NCI Thesaurus)

Genetic elements propagated primarily through the germline, with a proviral structure, i.e. the chromosomally-integrated form of retroviruses and regulated by cellular processes.

(Endogenous Retrovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

In avoiding recognition and removal by the mismatch repair system, a Mutation Fixation involves stabilization of a DNA sequence alteration in both strands so that the sequence change is propagated to progeny cells.

(Mutation Fixation, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuron Conduction Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, activities that propagate the transfer of the electrochemical action potential process along nerve fibers away from the cell body.

(Neuron Conduction Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuron Conduction Induction involves initiation of activities that propagate the transfer of the electrochemical action potential process along nerve fibers away from the cell body.

(Neuron Conduction Induction, NCI Thesaurus)

This reversibly stabilizes the membrane and inhibits depolarization, leading to the failure of a propagated action potential and subsequent conduction blockade.

(Dyclonine, NCI Thesaurus)

Embryonic stem (ES) cells are cells derived from the inner cell mass of the early embryo that can be propagated indefinitely in the primitive undifferentiated state while remaining pluripotent.

(Embryonic Stem Cell, NCI Thesaurus)