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Reproduce   /rˌiprədˈus/   Listen
Reproduce

verb
1.
Make a copy or equivalent of.
2.
Have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant.  Synonyms: multiply, procreate.
3.
Recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc..  "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait"
4.
Repeat after memorization.  Synonym: regurgitate.






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"Reproduce" Quotes from Famous Books



... Brooke Mockett, and Mr. Arthur Jupp. The experiments turned out to be a remarkable success, the young plants raised from the imported seed grew with extraordinary vigour, and it was soon found that the new variety would grow and crop well, and even on land on which all attempts to reproduce the "Chick" variety had utterly failed. Then this sinking industry rose almost as suddenly as it had fallen; old and abandoned estates, and every available acre of forest, and even scrub, were planted up, and land which ...
— Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore • Robert H. Elliot

... and terrorism in the disturbed districts in Ireland? And would it be a right thing for England to give the supreme power to these masked Couthons and Robespierres and Marats, that they might extend their operations into the now peaceable north, and reproduce in Ulster the tragedies of the south and west? Mr. Parnell puts aside the tyrannous part of the business, and cleverly throws the whole weight of his argument at Nottingham into the passionless ...
— About Ireland • E. Lynn Linton

... victory over 'the beast,' whether he be a person or a tendency, is to reproduce in higher fashion that old conquest by the Red Sea. There is hope for the world that its oppressors shall not always tyrannise; there is hope for each soul that, if we take Christ for our deliverer and our guide, He will ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren

... presently added to these two, at an epoch fixed by tradition some four thousand years ago. A vivid picture of their coming has been handed down to us, and this picture we shall reproduce, as many circumstances and particulars of our knowledge drawn from other sources concur to show that our old legend is near to the truth, ...
— Ireland, Historic and Picturesque • Charles Johnston

... the case of those animals that reproduce more slowly, an overcrowding of the earth would follow in a very short time. Darwin wrote that even the slow-breeding human species had doubled in the preceding quarter century. An elephant normally lives to the age of one hundred years; ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton


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