The meaning of Reproduction

noun

The mating and production of offspring by animals.

Usage examples:

The flooding of the rivers is a trigger for breeding to start

verb

(of animals) mate and then produce offspring.

Usage examples:

Toads are said to return to the pond of their birth to breed

verb

Propagate (an organism or cell) as a clone.

Usage examples:

Of the hundreds of new plants cloned the best ones are selected

noun

An organism or cell, or group of organisms or cells, produced asexually from one ancestor or stock, to which they are genetically identical.

Usage examples:

Vines representing all the 15 existing clones were planted

noun

(within gay culture) a gay man who adopts an exaggeratedly macho appearance and style of dress.

Usage examples:

According to levine, the gay clone was the product of traditional masculinity and the self-fulfillm…

verb

Make a similar or identical version of; reproduce.

Usage examples:

Each form had to be copied and sent to a different department

noun

A thing made to be similar or identical to another.

Usage examples:

The problem is telling which is the original document and which the copy

noun

A single specimen of a particular book, record, or other publication or issue.

Usage examples:

The record has sold more than a million copies

verb

Imitate fraudulently.

Usage examples:

My signature is extremely hard to counterfeit

adjective

Made in exact imitation of something valuable with the intention to deceive or defraud.

Usage examples:

Counterfeit £10 notes

noun

A fraudulent imitation of something else.

Usage examples:

He knew the tapes to be counterfeits

verb

Make or be an exact copy of.

Usage examples:

Information sheets had to be typed and duplicated

adjective

Exactly like something else, especially through having been copied.

Usage examples:

A duplicate set of keys

adjective

Having two corresponding or identical parts.

Usage examples:

Basically, identical and duplicate infrastructure components serve the critical systems.

noun

The action or process of duplicating something.

Usage examples:

An attempt to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort

noun

The practice of doing the same thing more than once, or having more than one person or thing to do the same task, when this is not necessary

Usage examples:

As a result of the merger, there could be duplication among the two companies' administrative staff…

verb

Make or shape (a metal object) by heating it in a fire or furnace and hammering it.

Usage examples:

He forged a great suit of black armour

verb

Move forward gradually or steadily.

Usage examples:

He forged through the crowded streets

noun

A blacksmith's workshop; a smithy.

Usage examples:

Culm was the material most widely used in the forges by blacksmiths and large quantities of the sub…

verb

Obtain from (a number) another which contains the first number a specified number of times.

Usage examples:

Multiply fourteen by nineteen

adverb

In several different ways or respects.

Usage examples:

Multiply injured patients

verb

Present participle of multiply

Usage examples:

If you multiply seven by 15 you get 105., when you multiply two odd numbers, is the answer always o…

verb

Make a photocopy of.

Usage examples:

You can photocopy the entry form

noun

A photographic copy of printed or written material produced by a process involving the action of light on a specially prepared surface.

Usage examples:

The library provided 6,866 photographs and 51,211 photocopies of the material to its readers.

verb

Present participle of photocopy

Usage examples:

Could you photocopy those three pages for me, please?, all articles on this page may be photocopied…

verb

Copy (a document) with a photostat.

Usage examples:

He refused to let me photostat the book

noun

A type of machine for making photocopies on special paper.

Usage examples:

What appeared to be the ink drum of a broken photostat machine rolled across the floor and glass cr…

Present participle of photostat

noun

The production of books, newspapers, or other printed material.

Usage examples:

The invention of printing

verb

Produce (books, newspapers, etc.), especially in large quantities, by a mechanical process involving the transfer of text or designs to paper.

Usage examples:

A thousand copies of the book were printed

noun

The process or business of producing printed material

Usage examples:

[ c ] the first printing will be 25,000 copies.

noun

The production of offspring; reproduction.

Usage examples:

In general animals copulate purely for the purpose of procreation

noun

Rapid increase in the number or amount of something.

Usage examples:

A continuing threat of nuclear proliferation

noun

The breeding of specimens of a plant or animal by natural processes from the parent stock.

Usage examples:

The propagation of plants by root cuttings

noun

The act of producing a new plant from a parent plant

Usage examples:

Students researched the propagation of plants at the city's botanical garden., we saw a demonstrati…

verb

Make an exact copy of; reproduce.

Usage examples:

It might be impractical to replicate eastern culture in the west

adjective

Of the nature of a copy.

Usage examples:

A replicate earth

noun

A close or exact copy; a replica.

Usage examples:

Young reptiles should not be considered merely small replicates of adults

noun

The action of copying or reproducing something.

Usage examples:

The extraordinary speed and replication of information created by computerization

noun

The act of making or doing something again in exactly the same way, or something that is made or done in this way

Usage examples:

Replication of these findings in other studies will be important., the second project was not desig…

verb

(of a fish, frog, mollusc, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs.

Usage examples:

The fish spawn among fine-leaved plants

noun

The eggs of fish, frogs, etc.

Usage examples:

The fish covers its spawn with gravel

noun

The product or offspring of a person or place.

Usage examples:

The spawn of satan

noun

A written or printed version of something; a transcript.

Usage examples:

They produced a complete transcription of the journals

noun

A written record of words or music

Usage examples:

This is a phonetic transcription of the conversations that were recorded on tape.

verb

Copy (a document) by the xerox process.

Usage examples:

I shall have the typescript xeroxed today

noun

A xerographic copying process.

Usage examples:

Printing methods include acrylic printing and colour xerox

verb

Present participle of xerox