Producing

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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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