(v. t.) To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
(v. t.) To get (with child.)
(v. t.) To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(2) I believe in due process of law; I know violence begets violence.
(3) The temporal progression of CHF from a mild to a severe state need not be a sign of progressive pathology of heart muscle, but rather a result of feedback circuits where failure begets failure and leads to progressive cardiac enlargement, progressive hypervolemia, and peripheral edema.
(4) Alexander said she thinks piracy is necessary because of country content restrictions, and that while the wealth piracy begets for the pirates isn’t right, the freedom of access to content is.
(5) As long as universities favour privately educated applicants, money will beget money.
(6) This reluctance flows from not only from our humanitarian ideals but from our experience that violence usually begets violence.
(7) It is proposed that this test should be made generally available in Southeast Asia and Southern China, in order to identify couples who are at risk of begetting fetuses afflicted with homozygous alpha-thalassemia.
(8) Knowledge begets increased output and liberates resources for further investment.
(9) Solomon Mercado (@M3rcMyWords) But yeah Max Kellerman better never plan a visit to the Philippines.... May 3, 2015 Leizl de los Reyes (@leizlgd) @MaxKellerman_ Respect begets respect.
(10) This begets responsibility – and no country is more aware of this than the Federal Republic.
(11) However, the only alternative is the terrible dystopia unfolding before our eyes as the EU disintegrates; David Cameron celebrates the potential exclusion of some eastern Europeans from social security benefits; ambition is renationalised; xenophobia surges; and newer and taller fences are built begetting insecurity in the name of … security.
(12) The middle class, of course: in the feedback loop of the bourgeoisie, their behaviour (breastfeeding, long maternity leave and well-planned paternity leave) begets better bonding, leads them to care more, which leads to even better behaviour.
(13) A male and female left to their own devices for one year – the average lifespan of a city rat – can beget 15,000 descendants.
(14) And God, the all-powerful creator, capable of moving mountains and of begetting a universe with all the laws of physics, couldn't find a better way to lift the burden of sin than a blood sacrifice.
(15) Social media, including Facebook, has been shown to have contagious effects on mood and behaviour, with negative comments begetting negative feelings and further comments even if they are not directed towards the reader.
(16) It was concluded that involuntary sterilization of mentally incompetent persons can be deemed legally acceptable if the person is incapable of valid consent; has a big possibility of begetting genetically defective offspring; and is permanently incapable of being a competent parent.
(17) The Hebrew word for "know" (yada') means both to know and to beget.
(18) The experience of Iraq and Afghanistan illustrates, although in different circumstances, how the overthrow of a tyrant can beget a long-running insurgency or civil war.
(19) As well as huge insecurity, disorganised capitalism begets disorganised politics: as Labour and the Tories find their respective support bases pushed down, so a Great Beyond opens, where seemingly anything can happen, from the shortlived rise of the BNP to the even briefer high summer of Cleggmania .
(20) They knew that violence mostly escalates and begets more violence.
Propagate
Definition:
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To multiply; to increase.
(v. t.) To generate; to produce.
(v. i.) To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
(2) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
(3) The ruffles of the sub-marginal cells showed different characteristics, being longer and not propagated successively as were the marginal ruffles.
(4) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
(5) However the study does not permit to reach any valid conclusions; further elaborate investigations alone could prove the useful role of genetic influence in the propagation of lepromin sensitivity to the subsequent sibs.
(6) This has stemmed from an inadequate understanding of the mechanisms involved in the formation and propagation of this condition.
(7) The E2A mutants were propagated by growth in human cell lines which express an integrated copy of the DBP gene under the control of a dexamethasone-inducible promoter (D. F. Klessig, D. E. Brough, and V. Cleghon, Mol.
(8) Phage H propagated on Yersinia pestis was reported by Molnar and Lawton to be rapidly adsorbed to female but not to male strains of Escherichia coli.
(9) The re-examination of previous data revealed that Caenorhabditis elegans produced 1.8% 24-methyl-23-dehydrocholesterol when propagated in medium containing campesterol.
(10) In 40 subjects the propagation sequence of phasic contractions could be evaluated and were simultaneous in 53%, antegrade in 35%, and retrograde in 11% of the waves.
(11) It is concluded that a number of mechanisms can account for the conduction failure resulting from phospholipase A2, including disruption of sodium channels needed for propagation of regenerative nerve impulses and the depletion of high energy phosphates needed to maintain ionic gradients.
(12) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
(13) Following the 1000-kJ but not the 4200-kJ meal, 10 mg cisapride increased total number of contractions, number of propagated contractions, mean amplitude, and area under curve significantly more than placebo.
(14) This phenomenon seems to be due to the generation of surface waves and a corresponding fluid zone into which these waves are also partially propagated.
(15) After 4 months of propagation, this cell line regularly showed 15 to 40% reactive cells.
(16) Because they prevent secondary capsular opacification and anterior vitreous propagation, it appears that such barrier-type implants should be systematically placed.
(17) Propagation and activity level of 18 enzymes catalyzing deamination reactions of dicarboxylic and oxyamino acids and enzymes of amino acid reamination and amino acid N-acyl-derivatives' deacylation have been studied in Klebsiella bacteria.
(18) The reaction studied, thus, appears to be the chain branching and propagation phase of lipoperoxidation.
(19) Study of the growth characteristics of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a relatively well-organized, slow-growing skin cancer, has been limited because of the lack of methods for propagation of the tumor off the human host.
(20) In cells treated with ion across membranes, tip to base propagation was seen only in the presence of EGTA; when calcium was added the majority of organisms propagated waves from base to tip.