propagate
pronunciation
How to pronounce propagate in British English:
UK [ˈprɒpəɡeɪt]
How to pronounce propagate in American English:
US [ˈprɑːpəɡeɪt]
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- Verb:
- transmit from one generation to the next
- travel through the air
- transmit
- become distributed or widespread
- transmit or cause to broaden or spread
- cause to become widely known
- cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
- multiply sexually or asexually
Word Origin
- propagate (v.)
- 1560s, "to cause to multiply," from Latin propagatus, past participle of propagare "to set forward, extend, procreate" (see propagation). Intransitive sense "reproduce one's kind" is from c. 1600. Related: Propagated; propagating.
Example
- 1. Social networks are making it increasingly easy to organize and propagate protests .
- 2. Very-high-energy gamma rays may be slowed down as they propagate through the quantum turbulence of space-time .
- 3. The method has long been used by horticulturalists to propagate plants , particularly finicky flora like orchids .
- 4. Like a virus , once the amen break had taken hold among jungle producers it began to propagate , and to mutate .
- 5. Conventional wisdom holds that the arrival of the democrats has raised the risks for china , an idea mr paulson and his team are only too happy to propagate .