(v. t.) To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play.
(v. t.) To cause to exist again.
(v. t.) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation.
(v. t.) To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results by these three assays were also highly reproducible.
(2) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
(3) In experiments performed to determine whether PtdIns(4,5)P2 hydrolysis induced by TRH may have been caused by the elevation of [Ca2+]i, the following results were obtained: the effect of TRH to decrease the level of PtdIns(4,5)P2 was not reproduced by the calcium ionophore A23187 or by membrane depolarization with 50 mM K+; the calcium antagonist TMB-8 did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2; and, most importantly, inhibition by EGTA of the elevation of [Ca2+]i did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2.
(4) The tilt was reproduced with a typical spread of about 10 degrees.
(5) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
(6) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
(7) The schedule proposed is easy to use and reproducible.
(8) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
(9) These studies establish this preparation as a reproducible model for the direct examination of autonomic influences on endocrine pancreatic function.
(10) REA is stable, sensitive, accurate and reproducible.
(11) Taken together, these data indicate that the regulation of probing angulation in clinical measurement of GAL with the TAPP is an important determinant of the reproducibility of periodontal probing.
(12) We did three repeated PD measures of mean aortic flow velocity in ten term infants (using four trained operators) to determine inter- and intraoperator reproducibility.
(13) The interobserver variability of these indices is low (r greater than 0.96); reproducibility is good in patients with sinus rhythm but mediocre in atrial fibrillation.
(14) The results of this study demonstrate that the increases in triacylglycerol synthesis and the cytosolic activity of phosphatidate phosphohydrolase previously observed by us in the ketotic diabetic liver, could be reproduced in normal fed rat liver cells by incubating them with acetoacetate.
(15) The method of mineral estimation using phalanges is described and its reproducibility was tested on 17 parameters.
(16) The temperature-activated 4 to 5 S EBP transformation is found to be highly reproducible without loss of [3H]estradiol-binding activity in a buffer containing an excess of [3H]estradiol, 40 mM Tris, 1 mM dithiothreitol, and 1 M urea at pH 7.4.
(17) Most of the subjects' mandibular movements did not improve to the point of making reproducible border movements on a pantograph.
(18) The reproducibility of heart rate variability indices was not improved by orthostatic or ergometric challenge.
(19) The reproducibility was 0.5% and the correlation with the ID-MF technique was 0.997.
(20) The assay of cytochrome P-450 in liver homogenate is accurate enough to calculate a reproducible recovery factor.
Spawn
Definition:
(v. t.) To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
(v. t.) To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
(v. i.) To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
(v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
(v. t.) The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
(v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
(v. t.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
(v. t.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple spawnings of individual females were also observed during the spawning period affecting the relative fecundity of the eggs.
(2) Such a heterogeneity in DNA content in the diploid part of HPR cell population could apparently suggest some differences in the nuclear chromatin arrangement to be always higher in spring before the frog spawning, and it seems to be characteristic of this type of cells.
(3) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
(4) As a precociously talented young artist, his interests didn't lie with landscape or the countryside – "though I did collect frog spawn and things like that" – but more with the advertising, posters and signwriting he saw around town.
(5) Unreasonable expectations and expansion of the health sector have spawned counterproductive effects which are to some extent detrimental to public health.
(6) The 53K esterase is also present in spawned ovaries and testes.
(7) It is important that newly developed antibiotics be used so as to increase our ability to eradicate infection, rather than to complicate the treatment of infection by spawning the creation of organisms resistant to multiple antibiotics.
(8) At this stage, however, the allure of big money Super Pacs has been much stronger on the GOP side, although their ineffectiveness in slowing Trump’s inexorable rise has spawned grousing and finger pointing.
(9) EHSE, but not DSE or HCSE, inhibited spawning (P less than 0.01) in 36% of the exposed fish and hepatic AHH activity in the non-spawning fish was significantly (P less than 0.05) higher than in the fish that did spawn.
(10) It's a fact of modern life that any human aspiration – from dropping a dress size to preventing your own suicide – will spawn a series of how-to books devoted to it.
(11) The many pop stars spawned by Simon Cowell's television shows have, as usual, been comprehensively ignored, apart from in the British single category, based on commercial radio airplay and sales and voted for by the public.
(12) The involvement of active inorganic ion transport and Na+,K(+)-ATPase in oocyte hydration in Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) and spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), marine teleosts which spawn pelagic eggs, was investigated by examining changes in the inorganic ion content of ovarian follicles containing mainly oocytes, by performing in vitro incubations of the follicles with ion channel blockers, and by assaying membrane preparations of ovaries containing hydrating and non-hydrating oocytes for Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity and content.
(13) In males, both plasma T and 11-KT initially increased in November and then showed further increasings during the rest of the period of gametogenesis (December) to reach their peak levels in the first half of the spawning period (end of January).
(14) The increase of the lysosomal activity in the connective tissue may be related to the changes found in the muscle texture associated with spawning.
(15) 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone increased significantly in serum before and after the fish had spawned.
(16) Jane Eyre has spawned a thousand luscious anti-heroes, and a million Pills & Swoon paperbacks.
(17) In Scotland a section of the Labour party remain convinced that Blairism spawned the rise of nationalism, and in England a similar group believe the alienation of the working-class vote stems from the former PM’s embrace of globalisation, leading to lower wages and weaker job security.
(18) The spawning season extends from late October to December and the ovary exhibits asynchronism.
(19) These findings suggest mechanisms for the maintenance of high rates of gluconeogenesis in salmon during spawning migration.
(20) China’s real growth is now below that of the Mao years: the economic crisis will spawn a crisis of legitimacy for the deeply corrupt communist party.