[syn: regurgitate, reproduce]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
(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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
reproduce
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "reproduce":
Photostat, Xerox, be fruitful, be productive, bear, beget, blossom,
breed, brew, burgeon, clone, come again, copy, develop, ditto,
do a repeat, do again, do over, double, dupe, duplicate, echo,
engender, facsimile, flourish, fructify, gather, geminate,
generate, germinate, grow, grow up, hectograph, hypertrophy,
imitate, increase, ingeminate, make over, manifold, match, mature,
microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, mimeograph, multigraph, multiply,
multiply by two, mushroom, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop,
parrot, plagiarize, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate,
pullulate, quadruplicate, quote, re-create, re-form, rebuild,
reconstitute, reconstruct, recreate, redesign, redo, redouble,
reduplicate, reecho, reestablish, refashion, refound, regenerate,
regurgitate, reincarnate, reinstitute, reissue, remake, renew,
renovate, reorganize, repeat, replicate, reprint, reshape, restore,
restructure, resurrect, revise, revive, say again, shoot up,
simulate, spawn, spring up, sprout, sprout up, stat, teem, thrive,
tower, trace, transcribe, triplicate, twin, upshoot, upspear,
upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax