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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REPRODU'CE, v.t. [re and produce.] To produce again; to renew the production of a thing destroyed. Trees are reproduced by new shoots from the roots or stump; and certain animals, as the polype, are reproduced from cuttings.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting"
2: have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant; "The Bible tells people to procreate" [syn: reproduce, procreate, multiply]
3: 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: repeat after memorization; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information" [syn: regurgitate, reproduce]

Merriam Webster's

Date: circa 1611 transitive verb to produce again: as a. to produce (new individuals of the same kind) by a sexual or asexual process b. to cause to exist again or anew <reproduce water from steam> c. to imitate closely <sound-effects can reproduce the sound of thunder> d. to present again e. to make a representation (as an image or copy) of <reproduce a face on canvas> f. to revive mentally ; recall g. to translate (a recording) into sound intransitive verb 1. to undergo reproduction 2. to produce offspring • reproducer noun • reproducibility noun • reproducible adjective or noun • reproducibly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. 1 tr. produce a copy or representation of. 2 tr. cause to be seen or heard etc. again (tried to reproduce the sound exactly). 3 intr. produce further members of the same species by natural means. 4 refl. produce offspring (reproduced itself several times). 5 intr. give a specified quality or result when copied (reproduces badly in black and white). 6 tr. Biol. form afresh (a lost part etc. of the body). Derivatives: reproducer n. reproducible adj. reproducibility n. reproducibly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reproduce Re`pro*duce" (r?`pr?-d?s"), v. t. To produce again. Especially: (a) To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(reproduces, reproducing, reproduced) 1. If you try to reproduce something, you try to copy it. I shall not try to reproduce the policemen's English... The effect has proved hard to reproduce. VERB: V n, V n 2. If you reproduce a picture, speech, or a piece of writing, you make a photograph or printed copy of it. We are grateful to you for permission to reproduce this article. VERB: V n 3. If you reproduce an action or an achievement, you repeat it. If we can reproduce the form we have shown in the last couple of months we will be successful. = repeat VERB: V n 4. When people, animals, or plants reproduce, they produce young. ...a society where women are defined by their ability to reproduce... We are reproducing ourselves at such a rate that our numbers threaten the ecology of the planet. VERB: V, V pron-refl • reproduction Genes are those tiny bits of biological information swapped in sexual reproduction.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Generate, propagate. 2. Copy, imitate, represent.

Moby Thesaurus

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