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Propagate

//ˈpɹɒpəˌɡeɪt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    propagated obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production. transitive

    "June 1879, William Keith Brooks, Popular Science Monthly Volume 15 - The Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View I A marked bud-variation is of very rare occurrence, but in many cases the tendency of plants raised from seeds to differ from the parents is so great that choice varieties are propagated entirely by buds. It is almost hopeless to attempt to propagate a choice variety of grape or strawberry by seeds, as the individuals raised in this way seldom have the valuable qualities of their parents, and, although they may have new qualities of equal or greater value, the chances are of course greatly against this, since the possibility of undesirable variation is much greater than the chance of a desirable sport."

  2. 2
    multiply sexually or asexually wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space. transitive

    "to propagate sound or light"

  4. 4
    cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering wordnet
  5. 5
    To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate. transitive

    "There began to appear from the East, cropping up now here, now there, but in general along lines of advance towards the West, individuals or small communities who proposed and propagated a new and, as they called it, a purified form of religion."

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  1. 6
    cause to become widely known wordnet
  2. 7
    To multiply; to increase. obsolete, transitive

    "Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, / Which thou wilt propagate."

  3. 8
    transmit or cause to broaden or spread wordnet
  4. 9
    To generate; to produce. transitive

    "But to [Edmund] Burke, […] the mere act of movement became the principle or cause of movement. Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life."

  5. 10
    become distributed or widespread wordnet
  6. 11
    To be propagated; to travel. intransitive
  7. 12
    transmit wordnet
  8. 13
    To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants. intransitive

    "As pigeons propagate so rapidly, I suppose that a thousand or fifteen hundred birds would have to be annually killed by mere chance."

  9. 14
    travel through the air wordnet
  10. 15
    To take effect on all relevant devices in a network. intransitive

    "It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system."

  11. 16
    transmit from one generation to the next wordnet
  12. 17
    To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network. transitive

    "The server propagates the password file at midnight each day."

Etymology

Etymology 1

First attested in 1535; from Latin prōpāgātus, perfect passive participle of prōpāgō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

Etymology 2

First attested in 1535; from Latin prōpāgātus, perfect passive participle of prōpāgō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

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