reproduce
part of speech
verb (reproduce, reproduces, reproduced, reproducing)
meaning for a pupil
1) (science) Of living things: to have babies, young, seeds or new cells. tree →
2) To copy something exactly: reproduce a picture. tree →
3) To make something happen again in the same way: reproduce an experiment. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons, all living things reproduce (one of the life processes, MRS GREN); plants reproduce with seeds and animals with eggs or live young. In science, a fair test should be reproduced to check results. Phrases: reproduce quickly, reproduce results.
examples
- Rabbits reproduce very quickly. tree →
- Plants reproduce by making seeds. tree →
- Bacteria reproduce by splitting in two. tree →
- You may not reproduce this book without permission. tree →
- Can you reproduce the experiment and get the same result? tree →
- The printer reproduced the photo perfectly. tree →
- I will tell the story of three of these visits, and will reproduce his own words whenever I can remember them. tree →
note
Regular verb: reproduced. Noun: reproduction. Maths: bacteria that double each hour: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 — doubling.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «reproduce» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.