Proliferate vs Propagate - What's the difference?
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To increase in number or spread rapidly.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
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, chapter=2 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.
To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.
To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate
* Daniel Defoe
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(obsolete) To multiply; to increase.
* Shakespeare
To generate; to produce.
* De Quincey
To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.
(computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
(computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
As verbs the difference between proliferate and propagate
is that proliferate is to increase in number or spread rapidly while propagate is 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.proliferate
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Verb
(proliferat)- The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
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Verb
- The infection was propagated insensibly.
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- Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, / Which thou wilt propagate .
- Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.
- It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.
- The server propagates the password file at midnight each day.