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Propagate

/ˈprɒpəɡeɪt/

Propagate (ينشر أو يكاثر) — illustrated meaning of the English word Propagate on GL Dictionary

Meaning of Propagate

To spread an idea; also to breed plants or transmit signals.

ما معنى كلمة Propagate بالعربي؟

ينشر أو يكاثر

🌱📡 ينشر أو يكاثر شيئاً ليمتد عبر نظام أو جيل؛ ينقل ويوسّع الأثر؛ فعل نشط لنشر الإشارات والأفكار والنباتات والتغييرات المفيدة 📡🌱

قصة GL: علّم نايف طلال العيسى الفرق أن تنشر أثر المصفوفة — تنقل وتوسّع الأثر من فرد لفريق، وفعل نشط أثبتته قياسات HBDNF بارتفاع 88.77% خلال 43 يوماً 🌟🧠

Synonyms & related words

spreaddisseminatecirculatebreedreproducetransmitpromote

Propagate in a sentence

Propagating false claims is unlawful.
Legal/GL Patent
GL Research studied how signals propagate.
Scientific/GL Research
Genetic Invent propagates good habits.
Business/GL Innovation
Genetic G Learning propagates seedlings.
Educational/GL Training

Origin of Propagate

From Latin propagare.

In the Genetic Learning (GL) context

In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, propagate describes spreading. Ideas and signals propagate.

Propagate audio micro-course (transcript)

Three short podcasts about “Propagate”. Listen with the interactive player.

Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning

Narrator: Today's word is "Propagate" — verb, pronounced /ˈprɒpəɡeɪt/, with the stress on "prop".

Narrator: To propagate means to grow new plants from a parent plant, or to spread ideas widely.

Narrator: In plain English, you multiply plants or spread beliefs.

Narrator: It comes from the Latin propagare, to multiply plants from cuttings.

Narrator: A common collocation is "propagate from cuttings", which describes growing plants from snipped stems.

Narrator: It differs from "spread", because propagate is more deliberate and technical.

Narrator: In physics and computing, signals and errors propagate through systems.

Narrator: Gardening, biology, physics and software all rely on the word.

Narrator: So remember: to propagate is to multiply and spread.

Read podcasts 2 and 3

Podcast 2 — In conversation

Speaker A: Can I propagate my spider plant?

Speaker B: Easily, from its babies! PROPAGATE comes from the Latin for multiplying cuttings.

Speaker A: So one plant makes many?

Speaker B: Exactly.

Speaker A: Example sentences?

Speaker B: "Propagate mint in water", gardening. "They propagated false rumours", ideas. "The error propagates through the code", software.

Speaker A: Common mistakes?

Speaker B: Do not confuse propagate with propaganda, though they share a root.

Speaker A: Close relatives?

Speaker B: Multiply is its cousin, spread is its twin, and disseminate is the formal alternative, but propagate keeps its green-fingered charm!

Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering

Speaker B: Let's use "propagate" in AI prompts — useful for gardening apps and software debugging.

Speaker A: How would gardening apps use it?

Speaker B: Step guides.

Prompt: Write a step-by-step guide to propagate a pothos plant in water.

Speaker A: And debugging?

Speaker B: Trace errors.

Prompt: Explain how this exception propagates through the call stack and where to catch it.

Speaker A: Could it help DNS tools?

Speaker B: Yes, changes.

Prompt: Check whether my new DNS record has propagated worldwide.

Speaker A: One more?

Speaker B: React.

Prompt: Show how to stop a click event from propagating to a parent element.

Frequently asked questions about Propagate

What does Propagate mean?

To spread an idea; also to breed plants or transmit signals.

ما معنى كلمة Propagate بالعربي؟

ينشر أو يكاثر — 🌱📡 ينشر أو يكاثر شيئاً ليمتد عبر نظام أو جيل؛ ينقل ويوسّع الأثر؛ فعل نشط لنشر الإشارات والأفكار والنباتات والتغييرات المفيدة 📡🌱

How do you pronounce Propagate?

Propagate is pronounced /ˈprɒpəɡeɪt/ and is used as a verb.

How is Propagate used in a sentence?

Propagating false claims is unlawful.

What are synonyms of Propagate?

spread, disseminate, circulate, breed, reproduce, transmit.

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