Prolific vs Propagate - What's the difference?
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Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
Similarly producing results or works in abundance
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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
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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 an adjective prolific
is prolific.As a verb 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.prolific
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Alternative forms
* prolifick (obsolete)Adjective
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Synonyms
* fertile * (fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance) fecund * (producing results or works in abundance) See alsoDerived terms
* prolificacy * prolifically * prolificity * prolificnessReferences
*propagate
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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.