| breeding ground | | |
| n. (location) | 1. breeding ground | a place where animals breed. |
| ~ pesthole | a breeding ground for epidemic disease. |
| ~ rookery | a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks). |
| ~ parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel | an extended area of land. |
| engender | | |
| v. (creation) | 1. breed, engender, spawn | call forth. |
| ~ cause, do, make | give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally.; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" |
| v. (body) | 2. beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother, sire | make children.; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| propagate | | |
| v. (possession) | 1. propagate | transmit from one generation to the next.; "propagate these characteristics" |
| ~ pass on | give to or transfer possession of.; "She passed the family jewels on to her daughter-in-law" |
| v. (motion) | 2. propagate | travel through the air.; "sound and light propagate in this medium" |
| ~ propagate | transmit.; "propagate sound or light through air" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (contact) | 3. propagate | transmit.; "propagate sound or light through air" |
| ~ channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport, transfer | send from one person or place to another.; "transmit a message" |
| ~ propagate | travel through the air.; "sound and light propagate in this medium" |
| v. (contact) | 4. propagate, spread | become distributed or widespread.; "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population" |
| ~ catch | spread or be communicated.; "The fashion did not catch" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (contact) | 5. propagate | transmit or cause to broaden or spread.; "This great civilization was propagated throughout the land" |
| ~ spread, distribute | distribute or disperse widely.; "The invaders spread their language all over the country" |
| v. (communication) | 6. broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread | cause to become widely known.; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" |
| ~ publicize, bare, publicise, air | make public.; "She aired her opinions on welfare" |
| ~ podcast | distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer. |
| ~ sow | introduce into an environment.; "sow suspicion or beliefs" |
| ~ circulate, go around, spread | become widely known and passed on.; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" |
| ~ circulate, go around, spread | become widely known and passed on.; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" |
| ~ popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize, generalise, generalize | cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use.; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors" |
| ~ carry, run | include as the content; broadcast or publicize.; "We ran the ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant review"; "All major networks carried the press conference" |
| v. (body) | 7. propagate | cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering. |
| ~ plant life, flora, plant | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion. |
| ~ propagate | multiply sexually or asexually. |
| ~ inoculate | insert a bud for propagation. |
| ~ process, treat | subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition.; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals"; "treat an oil spill" |
| v. (body) | 8. propagate | multiply sexually or asexually. |
| ~ biological science, biology | the science that studies living organisms. |
| ~ procreate, reproduce, multiply | have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant.; "The Bible tells people to procreate" |
| ~ vegetate | propagate asexually.; "The bacterial growth vegetated along" |
| pullulate | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. pullulate, swarm, teem | be teeming, be abuzz.; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" |
| ~ seethe, hum, buzz | be noisy with activity.; "This office is buzzing with activity" |
| ~ crawl | be full of.; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots" |
| v. (motion) | 2. pour, pullulate, stream, swarm, teem | move in large numbers.; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" |
| ~ crowd together, crowd | to gather together in large numbers.; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" |
| ~ spill out, spill over, pour out | be disgorged.; "The crowds spilled out into the streets" |
| v. (change) | 3. bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud | produce buds, branches, or germinate.; "the potatoes sprouted" |
| ~ grow | increase in size by natural process.; "Corn doesn't grow here"; "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"; "her hair doesn't grow much anymore" |
| ~ germinate | cause to grow or sprout.; "the plentiful rain germinated my plants" |
| v. (change) | 4. pullulate | become abundant; increase rapidly. |
| ~ increase | become bigger or greater in amount.; "The amount of work increased" |
| v. (body) | 5. pullulate | breed freely and abundantly. |
| ~ multiply, breed | have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms).; "pandas rarely breed in captivity"; "These bacteria reproduce" |
| reproduce | | |
| v. (creation) | 1. reproduce | make a copy or equivalent of.; "reproduce the painting" |
| ~ produce, create, make | create or manufacture a man-made product.; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" |
| ~ duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate, double | make or do or perform again.; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" |
| ~ duplicate | make a duplicate or duplicates of.; "Could you please duplicate this letter for me?" |
| ~ triplicate | reproduce threefold.; "triplicate the letter for the committee" |
| ~ quadruplicate | reproduce fourfold.; "quadruplicate the bill" |
| ~ reissue, reprint | print anew.; "They never reprinted the famous treatise" |
| ~ photocopy, xerox, run off | reproduce by xerography. |
| ~ play back, replay | reproduce (a recording) on a recorder.; "The lawyers played back the conversation to show that their client was innocent" |
| ~ imitate, simulate, copy | reproduce someone's behavior or looks.; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings" |
| ~ fingerprint | take an impression of a person's fingerprints. |
| ~ print | make into a print.; "print the negative" |
| v. (body) | 2. multiply, procreate, reproduce | have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant.; "The Bible tells people to procreate" |
| ~ biological science, biology | the science that studies living organisms. |
| ~ propagate | multiply sexually or asexually. |
| ~ fructify, set | bear fruit.; "the apple trees fructify" |
| ~ multiply, breed | have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms).; "pandas rarely breed in captivity"; "These bacteria reproduce" |
| ~ incubate, brood, hatch, cover | sit on (eggs).; "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| v. (creation) | 3. reproduce | 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" |
| ~ beaux arts, fine arts | the study and creation of visual works of art. |
| ~ re-create | form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind.; "His mind re-creates the entire world" |
| ~ catch, get | apprehend and reproduce accurately.; "She really caught the spirit of the place in her drawings"; "She got the mood just right in her photographs" |
| v. (communication) | 4. regurgitate, reproduce | repeat after memorization.; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information" |
| ~ echo, repeat | to say again or imitate.; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders" |
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