Propagate
['prɒpəgeɪt] or ['prɑpə'get]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) multiply sexually or asexually.
(verb.) cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering.
(verb.) transmit or cause to broaden or spread; 'This great civilization was propagated throughout the land'.
(verb.) transmit; 'propagate sound or light through air'.
(verb.) travel through the air; 'sound and light propagate in this medium'.
(verb.) transmit from one generation to the next; 'propagate these characteristics'.
手打:凯西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.
(v. t.) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.
(v. t.) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate; as, to propagate a story or report; to propagate the Christian religion.
(v. t.) To multiply; to increase.
(v. t.) To generate; to produce.
(v. i.) To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.
編輯:谢恩
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Multiply, increase, continue.[2]. Spread, diffuse, disseminate, circulate, extend, spread abroad.[3]. Generate, beget, engender, procreate, breed, produce, bring into being.
手打:帕特丽夏
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Breed, generate, produce, originate, spread, extend, expand, disseminate,diffuse, increase, multiply, promulgate, propound, broach
ANT:Extinguish, strangle, stifle, neutralize, reduce, contract, suppress, diminish,fail, dwindle, die, contradict
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解釋/意思:
v.t. to increase by generation or other natural process: to multiply plants by layers: to extend: to produce: to impel forward in space as sound light energy &c.: to spread from one to another: to promote: to extend the knowledge of: (obs.) to increase.—v.i. to be produced or multiplied: to have young.—adj. Prop′agable that can be propagated or increased by generation or other natural process.—ns. Propagan′da Prop′agand a committee (congregatio de propaganda fide) at Rome charged with the management of the R.C. missions: any association for the spread of opinions and principles esp. such as are opposed to the existing government; Propagand′ism practice of propagating tenets or principles: zeal in spreading one's opinions: proselytism; Propagand′ist one who devotes himself to propagandism; Propagā′tion act of propagating: the spreading or extension of anything as light sound energy &c.: increase: enlargement.—adj. Prop′agātive.—ns. Prop′agātor; Propagatō′rium (biol.) the reproductive apparatus.—adj. Prop′agātory.—ns. Propā′go a layer or branch laid down to root; Propag′ūlum a runner or sucker ending in an expanded bud: a gemma or bud affecting asexual propagation in many alg?
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例句/造句/用法:
- From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The author thought that the revelation of the structure of the heavens naturally tended to propagate the principles of virtue and vindicate the laws of Providence. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- By careful selection, many strange varieties have been propagated. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- These bud variations, as they may be named, can be propagated by grafts, offsets, etc. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- They were propagated with all that enthusiastic zeal which commonly animates the spirit of party, when it attacks established authority. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- To prevent the breed of our sheep from being propagated in foreign countries, seems to have been the object of this law. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- For the study of bacteria they are propagated artificially in a test tube--_i. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- With plants which are temporarily propagated by cuttings, buds, etc. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- His sermon before the Society for Propagating the Gospel, and _his speech intended to be spoken_, are proofs of his ability as well as his humanity. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- There is not a drop of Tom's corrupted blood but propagates infection and contagion somewhere. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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