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propagate 音标拼音: [pr'ɑpəg ,et] vt. 繁殖,传播,传送
vi. 繁殖,蔓延 繁殖,传播,传送繁殖,蔓延 propagate传播 propagate v 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" [ synonym: { spread}, { propagate}] 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" [ synonym: { circulate}, { circularize}, { circularise}, { distribute}, { disseminate}, { propagate}, { broadcast}, { spread}, { diffuse}, { disperse}, { pass around}] 7: cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering 8: multiply sexually or asexuallyPropagate \ Prop" a* gate\, v. i. To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly. [ 1913 Webster] No need that thou Should' st propagate, already infinite. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Propagate \ Prop" a* gate\, v. t. [ 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}, v. t.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] The infection was propagated insensibly. -- De Foe. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To multiply; to increase. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To generate; to produce. [ 1913 Webster] Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life. -- De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To multiply; continue; increase; spread; diffuse; disseminate; promote. [ 1913 Webster] 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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