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PROPAGATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Multiply sexually or asexually

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

multiply; procreate; reproduce (have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "propagate"):

vegetate (propagate asexually)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

propagation (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)

propagative (characterized by propagation or relating to propagation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Cause:

propagate (multiply sexually or asexually)

Domain category:

flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "propagate"):

inoculate (insert a bud for propagation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

propagation (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)

propagative (characterized by propagation or relating to propagation)

propagator (someone who propagates plants (as under glass))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to become widely known

Example:

broadcast the news

Synonyms:

broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)

Cause:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

Verb group:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "propagate"):

podcast (distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer)

sow (introduce into an environment)

generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use)

carry; run (include as the content; broadcast or publicize)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

propagation (the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions)

propagator (someone who spreads the news)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Transmit or cause to broaden or spread

Example:

This great civilization was propagated throughout the land

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

distribute; spread (distribute or disperse widely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

propagation (the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Become distributed or widespread

Example:

Optimism spread among the population

Synonyms:

propagate; spread

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "propagate"):

catch (spread or be communicated)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 6

Meaning:

Transmit

Example:

propagate sound or light through air

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport (send from one person or place to another)

Verb group:

propagate (travel through the air)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

propagation (the movement of a wave through a medium)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Travel through the air

Example:

sound and light propagate in this medium

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Verb group:

propagate (transmit)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

propagation (the movement of a wave through a medium)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Transmit from one generation to the next

Example:

propagate these characteristics

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "propagate" is one way to...):

pass on (give to or transfer possession of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

propagation (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Osteoblasts mineralize bone matrix by promoting hydroxyapatite crystal formation and growth in the interior of membrane-limited matrix vesicles (MVs) and by propagating the crystals onto the collagenous extracellular matrix.

(Bone Mineralization Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A unique numeric code assigned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prescription drugs and insulin products manufactured, prepared, processed, or propagated by registered establishments for commercial distribution.

(FDA National Drug Code, NCI Thesaurus)

A culture filtrate of cells of Candida Albicans propagated in a chemically defined medium and used as a recall antigen to evaluate cellular immunity in infection, cancer, and other disease states.

(Candida Albicans Skin Test Reagent, NCI Thesaurus)

Integrins facilitate the adhesion of stimulated endothelial cells to the extracellular matrix (ECM); trigger the secretion of ECM-rearranging proteases; and propagate signaling events that promote the survival and differentiation of cells in newly formed vasculature.

(Intetumumab, NCI Thesaurus)

To prepare CMV pp65-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in vitro, dendritic cells (DCs) are pulsed with CMV pp65 epitopes and then used to stimulate and propagate CMV pp65-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMNCs); the CMV pp65-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte population is then expanded so as to be sufficient for use in adoptive T lymphocyte therapy.

(Cytomegalovirus pp65-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from the original group of Syrian hamsters captured by Dr. Israel Aharoni in 1930 and imported into the United States in 1938, followed by colony derivation at Lakeview in 1949 and 1951 and to Charles River in 1969, where the strain is propagated today.

(LVG Hamster, NCI Thesaurus)

Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the dæmon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A set of three pairs of oppositely charged rods that are used in a mass spectrometer to filter out ions by focusing them in the center of the set of poles so that the radio frequency wave passed along the rods can propagate the ions from one end of the rods to the other.

(Hexapole, NCI Thesaurus)

But it is impossible to express his noble resentment at our savage treatment of the Houyhnhnm race; particularly after I had explained the manner and use of castrating horses among us, to hinder them from propagating their kind, and to render them more servile.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)