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Reproduce

verb

Make a copy or equivalent of.

Have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant. Synonyms: multiply, procreate.

Recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.. "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait"

Repeat after memorization. Synonym: regurgitate.

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"Reproduce" Quotes from Famous Books

... said my uncle, who seemed to read my thoughts, "that is the way to see the beauty of the sun-birds. No stuffed specimens of ours will ever reproduce a hundredth part of their beauty; but people cannot always come from England to see these ...

— Nat the Naturalist - A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas • G. Manville Fenn

... breeder can be always sure as to the parentage of the young which he is rearing. This affords an admirable basis for the practice of his art, which is still further favored by the fact that pigeons reproduce rapidly and the progeny are ready to mate in a few months after they come into the world. Thus the species affords really ideal conditions for that process of selection on which the improvement of ...

— Domesticated Animals - Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

... of its limitations. Yet we must not forget that he felt a natural bias toward the dreadful stuff with which he deals. The mystery of iniquity had an irresistible attraction for his mind. He was drawn to comprehend and reproduce abnormal elements of spiritual anguish. The materials with which he builds his tragedies are sought for in the ruined places of lost souls, in the agonies of madness and despair, in the sarcasms of criminal and reckless atheism, in slow tortures, griefs beyond ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

... that they came to us fawningly, asking to be used, we exalted them to be our servants. Now we are masters over them, and not they over us. They are content to be used, if but for a moment, and then forgotten for ever. We use them to reproduce in other minds the thoughts that are in our own. Woe if they ever get out of hand and become our masters again! They are our exchange metals. Woe if ever again we melt down those metals and recast ...

— A Tramp's Sketches • Stephen Graham

... viewed with disfavour any attempt to establish a system of town government similar to that so long in operation in New England. The town meeting was considered the nursery of sedition in New England, and it is no wonder that the British authorities in Halifax frowned upon all attempts to reproduce it in their province. ...

— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot

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