Produce

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Produce \Pro*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Produced}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Producing}.] [L. producere, productum, to bring
     forward, beget, produce; pro forward, forth + ducere to lead.
     See {Duke}.]
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     1. To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or


        notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or
        evidence in court.
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              Produce your cause, saith the Lord.   --Isa. xli.
                                                    21.
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              Your parents did not produce you much into the
              world.                                --Swift.
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     2. To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or
        growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to
        propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces
        grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain.
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              This soil produces all sorts of palm trees.
                                                    --Sandys.
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              [They] produce prodigious births of body or mind. --
                                                    Milton.
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              The greatest jurist his country had produced.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     3. To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or
        result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice
        produces misery.
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     4. To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a
        manufacturer produces excellent wares.
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     5. To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest
        produces an income; capital produces profit.
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     6. To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to
        produce a man's life to threescore. --Sir T. Browne.
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     7. (Geom.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or
        solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Produce \Pro*duce"\, v. i.
     To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects,
     consequences, or results.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Produce \Prod"uce\ (?; 277), n.
     That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product;
     yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural
     labors; hence, specifically, agricultural products.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  produce
       n : fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market [syn: {green
           goods}, {green groceries}, {garden truck}]
       v 1: bring forth or yield; "The tree would not produce fruit"
            [syn: {bring forth}]
       2: create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more
          cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys
          for two centuries" [syn: {make}, {create}]
       3: cause to occur or exist; "This procedure produces a curious
          effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints";
          "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor" [syn: {bring
          about}, {give rise}]
       4: bring out for display; "The proud father produced many
          pictures of his baby"; "The accused brought forth a letter
          in court that he claims exonerates him" [syn: {bring forth}]
       5: bring onto the market or release; "produce a movie"; "bring
          out a book"; "produce a new play" [syn: {bring on}, {bring
          out}]
       6: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means
          of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces
          great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We
          grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: {grow}, {raise},
           {farm}]
       7: come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and
          attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed
          abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body";
          "Well-developed breasts" [syn: {grow}, {develop}, {get}, {acquire}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  362 Moby Thesaurus words for "produce":
     Irish potato, Kraut, accomplish, achieve, act, adduce, advance,
     affect, aftermath, allege, array, assemble, attain, aubergine,
     author, avails, baked goods, be a gas, be a hit, be productive,
     beans, bear, bear fruit, bearing, beget, betoken, bill, bomb,
     box office, brandish, breathe, breed, bring about, bring forth,
     bring forward, bring into being, bring into view, bring off,
     bring on, bring out, bring to bear, bring to effect,
     bring to fruition, bring to light, bring to notice, bring to pass,
     bring up, build, bumper crop, cabbage, canned goods, cast, cause,
     citrus fruit, coin, collaborate, commissions, commit, compass,
     compose, compound, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct,
     construct, consummate, continue, create, credit, credits, crop,
     cultivate, dangle, dash off, deal with, deliver, demonstrate,
     deploy, develop, devise, discharge, disclose, dispatch, display,
     disposable income, dispose of, distribute, dividend, dividends,
     divulge, do, do the job, do the trick, do to, drag out, dramatize,
     draw, draw on, draw out, dream up, drupe, earned income, earnings,
     editorialize, effect, effectuate, eggplant, elaborate, elongate,
     embody, enact, engender, engineer, erect, establish, evidence,
     evince, evoke, evolve, excrete, execute, exhibit,
     experience imaginatively, expose to view, express, extend, extrude,
     fabricate, fail, fancy, fantasize, fashion, father, feature, fetch,
     fictionalize, flaunt, flop, flourish, food items, form, formulate,
     found, frame, free-lance, fructify, fruit, fruit cocktail,
     fruit compote, fruit soup, fudge together, fulfill, furnish, gains,
     gate, gate receipts, generate, gestate, get, get up, ghost,
     ghostwrite, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to,
     give out, give rise to, give sign, give token, go and do,
     green goods, greens, groceries, grocery, gross, gross income,
     gross receipts, grow, harvest, hatch, headline, highlight, ideate,
     illuminate, imagine, inaugurate, incarnate, income, indicate,
     indite, induce, industrialize, inflict, initiate, institute,
     intake, introduce, invent, knock off, knock out, lactate, legumes,
     lengthen, lengthen out, let out, love apple, mad apple, make,
     make a hit, make clear, make plain, make up, manage, manifest,
     manufacture, marshal, mass-produce, materialize, mature, mean,
     melodramatize, mold, mould, mount, multiply, muster up, net,
     net income, net receipts, novelize, occasion, offer, open,
     open a show, originate, output, overproduce, packaged goods,
     pamphleteer, parade, parent, patch together, pay, perform,
     perpetrate, piece together, pieplant, plead, polish off, potato,
     potherbs, prefabricate, premiere, prepare, present, preview,
     proceeds, procreate, product, production, profits, prolong,
     prolongate, prompt, propagate, protract, provide, pull, pull off,
     put away, put forth, put on, put out, put together, put up, raise,
     rally, realize, rear, receipt, receipts, receivables, render,
     represent, reproduce, returns, reveal, revenue, rhubarb, roll out,
     royalties, run up, scenarize, secern, second crop, secrete, secure,
     set afloat, set forth, set on foot, set the stage, set up, shape,
     show, show forth, sire, spark, spawn, spin out, spotlight, spud,
     stage, star, start, stone fruit, strain, stretch, stretch out,
     string out, succeed, supply, suppose, take, take and do,
     take care of, take-in, takings, tater, tauten, tear, tense,
     theatricalize, think up, throughput, throw on paper, tighten,
     tinned goods, token, tomato, trot out, truck, try out, turn out,
     turn the trick, unearned income, unfold, up and do, vegetables,
     vintage, volume-produce, water, wave, weep, white potato, whomp up,
     work, work out, work up, wreak, write, yield