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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reproduce \Re'pro*duce"\ (r?'pr?-d?s"), verb (used with an object) To produce again. Especially: (a) To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. (b) To cause to exist again.
Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again they reproduce the same white light as before. --Sir I. Newton. (c) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation. (d) To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reproduce
verb
1: make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting"
2: have offspring or young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly"; "The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be" [syn: {procreate}, {multiply}]
3: recreate an idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. as by artistic means; "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait"
4: repeat after memorization; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information" [syn: {regurgitate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "reproduce": Photostat, Xerox, be fruitful, be productive, bear, beget, blossom, breed, brew, burgeon, clone, come again, copy, develop, ditto, do a repeat, do again, do over, double, dupe, duplicate, echo, engender, facsimile, flourish, fructify, gather, geminate, generate, germinate, grow, grow up, hectograph, hypertrophy, imitate, increase, ingeminate, make over, manifold, match, mature, microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, mimeograph, multigraph, multiply, multiply by two, mushroom, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, parrot, plagiarize, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, pullulate, quadruplicate, quote, re-create, re-form, rebuild, reconstitute, reconstruct, recreate, redesign, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reestablish, refashion, refound, regenerate, regurgitate, reincarnate, reinstitute, reissue, remake, renew, renovate, reorganize, repeat, replicate, reprint, reshape, restore, restructure, resurrect, revise, revive, say again, shoot up, simulate, spawn, spring up, sprout, sprout up, stat, teem, thrive, tower, trace, transcribe, triplicate, twin, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax
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