Propagate

Verb

 * 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.
 * 2)  To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.
 * 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.
 * 4)  To multiply; to increase.
 * 5)  To generate; to produce.
 * 6)  To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.
 * 7)  To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
 * It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.
 * 1)  To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
 * The server propagates the password file at midnight each day.

Derived terms

 * propagation
 * propagator

Adverbs for Propagate
peacefully; seditiously; agriculturally; radically; cunningly; audaciously; seasonally.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * German: verbreiten
 * Japanese: (, denpasuru)


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 * Swedish: fortplanta sig

Verb
propagate



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