REPRODUCE


Meaning of REPRODUCE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ri:prədju:s, AM -du:s ]

( reproduces, reproducing, reproduced)

1.

If you try to reproduce something, you try to copy it.

I shall not try to reproduce the policemen’s English...

The effect has proved hard to reproduce.

VERB : V n , V n

2.

If you reproduce a picture, speech, or a piece of writing, you make a photograph or printed copy of it.

We are grateful to you for permission to reproduce this article.

VERB : V n

3.

If you reproduce an action or an achievement, you repeat it.

If we can reproduce the form we have shown in the last couple of months we will be successful.

= repeat

VERB : V n

4.

When people, animals, or plants reproduce , they produce young.

...a society where women are defined by their ability to reproduce...

We are reproducing ourselves at such a rate that our numbers threaten the ecology of the planet.

VERB : V , V pron-refl

• re‧pro‧duc‧tion

Genes are those tiny bits of biological information swapped in sexual reproduction.

N-UNCOUNT

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