All reproduction synonyms
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R r noun reproduction
- childbirth β Childbirth is the act of giving birth to a child.
- lookalike β a person or thing that looks like or closely resembles another; double.
- fertilization β an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
- nativity β birth.
- generation β the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- comparableness β The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- frontispiece β an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- engraving β A print made from an engraved plate, block, or other surface.
- fructification β act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
- counterfeiting β the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- echo β a repetition of sound produced by the reflection of sound waves from a wall, mountain, or other obstructing surface.
- likeness β a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
- mezzotint β a method of engraving on copper or steel by burnishing or scraping away a uniformly roughened surface.
- aboves β in, at, or to a higher place.
- authoring β Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- copy β If you make a copy of something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
- iterance β iteration.
- artwork β Artwork is drawings and photographs that are prepared in order to be included in something such as a book or advertisement.
- mishmosh β a confused mess; hodgepodge; jumble.
- facts of life β any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
- childbearing β Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- insemination β to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.
- model β a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
- mimeo β A mimeograph.
- alliteration β Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
- flimsy β without material strength or solidity: a flimsy fabric; a flimsy structure.
- image β a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- four-flusher β a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- offprint β Also called separate. a reprint of an article that originally appeared as part of a larger publication.
- ectype β a reproduction; copy (opposed to prototype).
- gold brick β Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- mimeograph β a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- etching β A print produced by the process of etching.
- onomatopoeia β the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- carbon copy β If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
- carbon-copy β a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
- coition β sexual intercourse
- ingemination β Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.
- impregnation β to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- extention β Misspelling of extension.
- germination β to begin to grow or develop.
- formulation β to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- birds and bees β any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- ditto β the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: β³. Abbreviation: do. Compare ditto mark.
- broken record β (Idiomatic) Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance.
- fecundation β to make prolific or fruitful.
adjective reproduction
- artificial β Artificial objects, materials, or processes do not occur naturally and are created by human beings, for example using science or technology.
- fake β to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- ersatz β (of a product) Made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else.
- faux β artificial or imitation; fake: a brooch with faux pearls.