reproduce
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (4)reproduced, reproducing
- make a copy or equivalent of“reproduce the painting”More general produce, makeMore specific duplicate, imitate, reprint, play back, triplicate, fingerprint, print, quadruplicate, photocopy
- have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant“The Bible tells people to procreate”“These bacteria reproduce”Synonyms: procreatemultiplyMore general make, createMore specific breed, brood, propagate, fructify
- 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”More general re-create, recreateMore specific catch, get
- repeat after memorization“For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information”Synonyms: regurgitateMore general repeat, echo
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Translations
Verb to produce an image or copy of something
- Spanish
- reproducir
- French
- reproduire
- German
- reproduzieren
- Italian
- riprodurre
- Portuguese
- reproduzir
- Russian
- воспроизводи́ть vosproizvodítʹ
- Chinese
- 复制 fùzhì
- Dutch
- reproduceren
- Polish
- odtwarzać
- Swedish
- reproducera
10 more languages
- Korean
- 재현하다 jaehyeonhada
- Hungarian
- reprodukál
- Portuguese (PT)
- reproduzir
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 複製 fùzhì
- Catalan
- reproduir
- Czech
- rozmnožit
- Esperanto
- reprodukti
- Finnish
- toisintaa
- Georgian
- ამრავლებს amravlebs
- Romanian
- reproduce
Verb to generate offspring
- German
- sich fortpflanzen
- Italian
- riprodursi
- Portuguese
- reproduzir
- Turkish
- üremek
- Russian
- размножа́ться razmnožátʹsja
- Chinese
- 繁殖 fánzhí
- Dutch
- voortplanten
- Swedish
- föröka
- Vietnamese
- sinh sản
- Hungarian
- szaporodik
4 more languages
- Portuguese (PT)
- reproduzir
- Finnish
- lisääntyä
- Hebrew
- התרבה hitrabá
- Norwegian
- reprodusere
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
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 Isaac 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54