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re⋅pro⋅duce

  [ree-pruh-doos, -dyoos] verb, -duced, -duc⋅ing.
Use reproduce in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
2. to produce again or anew by natural process: to reproduce a severed branch.
3. Biology. to produce one or more other individuals of (a given kind of organism) by some process of generation or propagation, sexual or asexual.
4. to cause or foster the reproduction of (organisms).
5. to produce, form, make, or bring about again or anew in any manner.
6. to recall to the mind or have a mental image of (a past incident, scene, etc.), as by the aid of memory or imagination.
7. to produce again, as a play produced at an earlier time.
–verb (used without object)
8. to reproduce its kind, as an organism; propagate; bear offspring.
9. to turn out in a given manner when copied: This picture will reproduce well.
Origin:
1605–15; re- + produce

Related forms:
re⋅pro⋅duc⋅er, noun
re⋅pro⋅duc⋅i⋅ble, adjective
re⋅pro⋅duc⋅i⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun

Synonyms:
3. generate, propagate, beget. 5. repeat. See imitate.
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re·pro·duce   (rē'prə-dōōs', -dyōōs')   
v.   re·pro·duced, re·pro·duc·ing, re·pro·duc·es

v.   tr.
  1. To produce a counterpart, image, or copy of.
  2. Biology To generate (offspring) by sexual or asexual means.
  3. To produce again or anew; re-create.
  4. To bring (a memory, for example) to mind again; recall.
v.   intr.
  1. To generate offspring.
  2. To undergo copying: graphics that reproduce well.
re'pro·duc'er n., re'pro·duc'i·bil'i·ty n., re'pro·duc'i·ble adj.
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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.

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. (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, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : reproduce
Spanish: reproducir,
German: wiedergeben,
Japanese: 再生する
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reproduce 
1611, "to produce again," from re- "again" + produce (v.), probably on model of Fr. reproduire (16c.). Sense of "make a copy" is first recorded 1850; that of "produce offspring" is from 1894. Reproductive in biological sense is recorded from 1836. Reproduction is attested from 1659, "act of creating again;" sense of "generation of living things" is from 1782; meaning "a copy" is from 1807.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: re·pro·duce
Pronunciation: "rE-pr&-'d(y)üs
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: -duced; -duc·ing
transitivesenses
1 : to produce (new individuals of the same kind) by a sexual or asexual process
2 : to achieve (an original result or score) again or anew byrepeating an experiment or test reproduce intransitive senses
1 : to undergo reproduction
2 : to produce offspring
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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reproduce re·pro·duce (rē'prə-d&oomacr;s', -dy&oomacr;s')
v. re·pro·duced, re·pro·duc·ing, re·pro·duc·es

  1. To produce a counterpart, an image, or a copy of something.
  2. To bring something to mind again.
  3. To generate offspring by sexual or asexual means.

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