Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To produce again or anew; re-create.
  • intransitive verb To produce a copy, imitation, or representation of.
  • intransitive verb To generate (offspring) by sexual or asexual means.
  • intransitive verb To bring (an event in one's memory, for example) to mind again; recall.
  • intransitive verb To generate offspring.
  • intransitive verb To undergo copying.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bring forward again; produce or exhibit anew.
  • To produce or yield again or anew; generate, as offspring; beget; procreate; give rise by an organic process to a new individual of the same species; propagate. See reproduction.
  • To make a copy or representation of; portray; represent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To bring forward again.
  • transitive verb To cause to exist again.
  • transitive 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.
  • transitive 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To produce an image or copy of something.
  • verb biology To generate offspring (sexually or asexually).
  • verb To produce again; to recreate.
  • verb To bring something to mind; to recall.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.
  • verb make a copy or equivalent of
  • verb repeat after memorization
  • verb have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant

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Examples

  • It asserts that a woman's capacity to reproduce is to be subject not to her control, but to that of the state.

    Blogging for Choice: Every Child a Wanted Child fantasyecho 2008

  • Helping the colony reproduce is a greater evolutionary success.

    At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

  • Helping the colony reproduce is a greater evolutionary success.

    At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

  • Helping the colony reproduce is a greater evolutionary success.

    At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

  • This valuable piece I reproduce from the Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday (here).

    Archive 2007-06-24 2007

  • For other people to evaluate how much my ability to reproduce, is just the lowest place we can get to.

    i’d hate to think what might happen if that discharged accidentally « Love | Peace | Ohana 2007

  • However the premise that all of life's diversity owing its collective common ancestry (via some blindwatchmaker-type process) to some unknown population (s) of single-celled organisms which just happened to have to ability to imperfectly reproduce, is not empirically detectable.

    Courting the Theists 2005

  • We were permitted to reproduce from the Globe Ahmik's letters and we have headed this pamphlet "Greater Ontario The Poor Man's Hope; what men who started bare-handed have accomplished."

    Greater Ontario 1917

  • How many times does the word reproduce’ or reproducability’ appear in that definition?

    LIA and MWP in Venezuela « Climate Audit 2006

  • Edmond, actually there is a significant difference between 'reinforce' and 'reproduce' -- if I blockquote an argument in a post or a comment, I've reproduced it; if I contribute additional points to strengthen the critique, I've reinforced it.

    OCD 2009

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