 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
propagate
verb
1: transmit from one generation to the next; "propagate these
characteristics"
2: travel through the air; "sound and light propagate in this
medium"
3: transmit; "propagate sound or light through air"
4: become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread";
"Optimism spread among the population" [syn: {spread}]
5: transmit or cause to broaden or spread; "This great
civilization was propagated throughout the land"
6: cause to become widely known; "spread information";
"circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: {circulate},
{circularize}, {circularise}, {distribute}, {disseminate},
{broadcast}, {spread}, {diffuse}, {disperse}, {pass
around}]
7: cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
8: multiply sexually or asexually
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Propagate \Prop"a*gate\, verb (used without an object)
To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by
generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate
rapidly.
No need that thou
Should'st propagate, already infinite. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Propagate \Prop"a*gate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Propagated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Propagating}.] [L. propagatus, p. p. of
propagare to propagate, akin to propages, propago, a layer of
a plant, slip, shoot. See {Pro-}, and cf. {Pact}, {Prop},
{Prune}, verb (used with an object)]
1. 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.
2. To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward
in space; as, to propagate sound or light.
3. 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.
The infection was propagated insensibly. --De Foe.
4. To multiply; to increase. [Obs.]
Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,
Which thou wilt propagate. --Shak.
5. To generate; to produce.
Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.
--De Quincey.
Syn: To multiply; continue; increase; spread; diffuse;
disseminate; promote.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "propagate":
bear, beget, bestrew, breed, breed true, bring forth, broadcast,
bruit about, circulate, circumfuse, copulate, crossbreed,
cultivate, deal out, deliver, develop, diffract, diffuse, dispense,
disperse, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, engender,
fan out, father, generate, get, grow, herald, inbreed, increase,
issue, make known, make love, mother, multiply, noise abroad,
outbreed, overscatter, oversow, overspread, proclaim, procreate,
produce, proliferate, promote, promulgate, propagandize, publicize,
publish, radiate, raise, reproduce, reproduce in kind, retail,
scatter, sire, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spread, spread out,
strew, transmit, utter
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