Propagate

['prɒpəgeɪt] or ['prɑpə'get]

Definition

(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'.

Checked by Kathy--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Typist: Shane

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Multiply, increase, continue.[2]. Spread, diffuse, disseminate, circulate, extend, spread abroad.[3]. Generate, beget, engender, procreate, breed, produce, bring into being.

Typist: Patricia

Synonyms and Antonyms

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

Typed by Brian

Definition

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?

Edited by Johanna