adj
Meaning 1
propagated
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
propagate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒpəˌɡeɪt/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈpɹɑpəˌɡeɪt/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈpɹɔpəˌɡæɪt/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈpɹɒpəˌɡæɪt/
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verb
Meaning 2
To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to propagate sound or light
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To multiply; to increase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To generate; to produce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To be propagated; to travel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Examples
- It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Examples
- The server propagates the password file at midnight each day.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
multiply sexually or asexually
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reproduce, procreate, multiply
Narrower terms: vegetate
verb
Meaning 12
cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: process, treat
Narrower terms: inoculate
verb
Meaning 13
cause to become widely known
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- spread information
- circulate a rumor
- broadcast the news
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: publicize, publicise, air, bare
Narrower terms: podcast, sow, popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise, carry, run
verb
Meaning 14
transmit or cause to broaden or spread
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- This great civilization was propagated throughout the land
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spread, distribute
verb
Meaning 15
become distributed or widespread
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the infection spread
- Optimism spread among the population
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spread
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: move
Narrower terms: catch
verb
Meaning 16
transmit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- propagate sound or light through air
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise
verb
Meaning 17
travel through the air
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- sound and light propagate in this medium
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
verb
Meaning 18
transmit from one generation to the next
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- propagate these characteristics
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pass on
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
65 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: размножавам (razmnožavam) — to cause to continue or multiply by generation
- Catalan: propagar — to cause to continue or multiply by generation
- Finnish: lisätä — to cause to continue or multiply by generation
- Hungarian: szaporít — to cause to continue or multiply by generation
- Hungarian: tenyészt — to cause to continue or multiply by generation
- Irish: póraigh — to cause to continue or multiply by generation
- Irish: síolraigh — to cause to continue or multiply by generation
- Māori: whakamakuru — to cause to continue or multiply by generation
- Portuguese: propagar — to cause to continue or multiply by generation
- Spanish: propagar — to cause to continue or multiply by generation
- Bulgarian: разпространявам (razprostranjavam) — to cause to spread to extend
- Catalan: propagar — to cause to spread to extend
- Finnish: lähettää — to cause to spread to extend
- Finnish: levittää — to cause to spread to extend
- German: verbreiten — to cause to spread to extend
- Hungarian: továbbad — to cause to spread to extend
- Hungarian: továbbít — to cause to spread to extend
- Irish: leathnaigh — to cause to spread to extend
- Japanese: 伝播する (denpa suru) — to cause to spread to extend
- Portuguese: propagar — to cause to spread to extend
- Romanian: propaga — to cause to spread to extend
- Romanian: răspândi — to cause to spread to extend
- Russian: распространя́ть (rasprostranjátʹ) — to cause to spread to extend
- Russian: распространи́ть (rasprostranítʹ) — to cause to spread to extend
- Spanish: propagar — to cause to spread to extend
- Swedish: sprida — to cause to spread to extend
- Ottoman Turkish: یایمق (yaymak) — to cause to spread to extend
- Ukrainian: розповсю́джувати (rozpovsjúdžuvaty) — to cause to spread to extend
- Ukrainian: поши́рювати (pošýrjuvaty) — to cause to spread to extend
- Dutch: propageren — to spread from person to person
- Finnish: levittää — to spread from person to person
- Hungarian: terjeszt — to spread from person to person
- Hungarian: propagál — to spread from person to person
- Hungarian: hirdet — to spread from person to person
- Hungarian: népszerűsít — to spread from person to person
- Irish: leathnaigh — to spread from person to person
- Portuguese: propagar — to spread from person to person
- Swedish: sprida — to spread from person to person
- Ottoman Turkish: یایمق (yaymak) — to spread from person to person
- Bulgarian: умножавам (umnožavam) — (obsolete in English) to multiply; to increase
- Bulgarian: увеличавам (uveličavam) — (obsolete in English) to multiply; to increase
- Finnish: lisätä — (obsolete in English) to multiply; to increase
- Hungarian: szaporít — (obsolete in English) to multiply; to increase
- Māori: whakamakuru — (obsolete in English) to multiply; to increase
- Russian: размножа́ть (razmnožátʹ) — (obsolete in English) to multiply; to increase
- Russian: размно́жить (razmnóžitʹ) — (obsolete in English) to multiply; to increase
- Russian: размножа́ться (razmnožátʹsja) — (obsolete in English) to multiply; to increase
- Russian: размно́житься (razmnóžitʹsja) — (obsolete in English) to multiply; to increase
- Bulgarian: плодя се (plodja se) — to generate; to produce
- Finnish: aiheuttaa — to generate; to produce
- Hungarian: kelt — to generate; to produce
- Hungarian: okoz — to generate; to produce
- Hungarian: előidéz — to generate; to produce
- Hungarian: kivált — to generate; to produce
- Hungarian: terjed — to be propagated, to travel
- Bulgarian: размножавам се (razmnožavam se) — biology: to produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
- Finnish: lisääntyä — biology: to produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
- French: se propager — biology: to produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
- German: sich vermehren — biology: to produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
- Hungarian: szaporodik — biology: to produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
- Hungarian: tenyészik — biology: to produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
- Irish: síolraigh — biology: to produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
- Russian: размножа́ться (razmnožátʹsja) — biology: to produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
- Russian: размно́житься (razmnóžitʹsja) — biology: to produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
- Swedish: fortplanta sig — biology: to produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants