REPRODUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reproduce mean? 

• REPRODUCE (verb)
  The verb REPRODUCE has 4 senses:

1. make a copy or equivalent of

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

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

4. repeat after memorization

  Familiarity information: REPRODUCE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPRODUCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reproduce    ... he / she / it reproduces   
Past simple: reproduced   
Past participle: reproduced   
-ing form: reproducing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a copy or equivalent of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

reproduce the painting

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

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

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

double; duplicate; reduplicate; repeat; replicate (make or do or perform again)

duplicate (make a duplicate or duplicates of)

triplicate (reproduce threefold)

quadruplicate (reproduce fourfold)

reissue; reprint (print anew)

photocopy; run off; xerox (reproduce by xerography)

play back; replay (reproduce (a recording) on a recorder)

copy; imitate; simulate (reproduce someone's behavior or looks)

fingerprint (take an impression of a person's fingerprints)

print (make into a print)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reproduction (the act of making copies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

multiply; procreate; reproduce

Context example:

These bacteria reproduce

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

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Domain category:

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

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

propagate (multiply sexually or asexually)

fructify; set (bear fruit)

breed; multiply (have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms))

brood; cover; hatch; incubate (sit on (eggs))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

reproduction (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)

reproduction (the process of generating offspring)

reproductive (producing new life or offspring)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait

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

re-create (form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind)

Domain category:

beaux arts; fine arts (the study and creation of visual works of art)

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

catch; get (apprehend and reproduce accurately)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he reproduce his major works over a short period of time?

Sense 4

Meaning:

Repeat after memorization

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

regurgitate; reproduce

Context example:

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

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

echo; repeat (to say again or imitate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Sargassum reproduces from fragments of the parent plant, and it probably has several initiation zones around the Atlantic Ocean.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

These drugs interfere with the synthesis of cell walls to prevent bacteria from growing and reproducing.

(Antibiotic Combinations May Combat MRSA Infections, NIH)

When the solutions are combined, a clot is formed, reproducing the final stages of the coagulation cascade.

(Fibrin sealant, NCI Thesaurus)

They reproduce quickly in your body.

(Bacterial Infections, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

These changes make energy and the materials cells and organisms need to grow, reproduce, and stay healthy.

(Intermediary Metabolic Process, NCI Dictionary)

Scientists have created the first living organism that can grow and reproduce using DNA base pairs that aren’t found in nature.

(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)

It was about a foot square, and on the inner side there was a singular arrangement of lines, which I here reproduce:

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As cells divide and multiply, they make copies of their DNA, so any spelling mistakes will be reproduced.

(‘Fingerprint database’ could help scientists to identify new cancer culprits, University of Cambridge)

They either kill bacteria or keep them from reproducing.

(Antibiotics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

He unfolded the rough chart, which I here reproduce, and he laid it across Holmes’s knee.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)