produce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prədyo͞osʹ
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒuːs/
ipa: /pɹəˈdjuːs/
enpr: prədo͞osʹ
ipa: /pɹəˈdus/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: produces
form: producing
form: produced
form: produced
Etymology: From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: [chapter XIII, page 264:] […] the greatest jurist that his country had produced. […] [chapter XVI, page 644:] At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind.
ref: 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.
ref: 1999, Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification, volume 3, CSIRO Publishing, page 72:
text: For example, Mary Lou Morris, past president of the Environment Institute of Australia, has been her country′s delegate to a number of global environmental conferences and helped to produce the Australian National Heritage Charter.
ref: 2000, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, quoting Jane McGary, Environment: Australia and New Zealand, quoted in Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension, page 567:
text: The Agreement criminalizes end-user piracy and requires Australia to authorize the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of counterfeit and pirated goods and the equipment used to produce them.
ref: 2006, Office of the United States Trade Representative, National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: 2006, page 29:
text: We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.
ref: 2006 November 21, Kenya National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): Parliamentary Debates, page 3805:
text: He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.
ref: 2008, Primary Australian History: Book F, R.I.C. Publications, page 43:
text: Besides, some of the rejected dimuons were produced in collisions downstream of the target region (in the beam dump or in the hadron absorber, for instance).
ref: 2010, Carlos Laurenço, Hermine K. Wöhri, edited by Helmut Satz, Sourav Sarkar, and Bikash Sinha, The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures, Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 785, Measuring Dimuons Produced in Proton-Nucleus Collisions in the NA60 Experiment at the SPS, page 280:
synonyms: word: make
word: generate
word: yield
word: create
word: bring forth
word: cause
word: contrive
word: create
word: engender
word: generate
word: gin up
word: innate
word: form
word: forthbring
word: make
word: produce
word: spawn
antonyms: destroy
ruin
glosses: To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
examples: text: Now it is also my understanding, I believe I am correct in this, that either one or two other manufacturers did not produce this year, which also created a certain shortage.
ref: 1968, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business, Hearings, page 550:
glosses: To make or yield something.
examples: text: It was necessary for the prisoner to produce a witness to prove his innocency.
ref: 1810, Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings, volume 8:
text: The bottom of the barrel was scraped on August 22 when Shrewsbury had to produce Taunton 2-6-0 No. 6312 to work the 8.10 p.m. from Paddington between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury; the stranger was in trouble in the early hours of the next morning at Hollinswood, but managed to reach Shrewsbury.
ref: 1961 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 635:
text: LDS security produced identification information, photographs, and videotape of an anti-Mormon preacher who they said called himself Emmanuel and was often seen around Temple Square, especially at conference time.
ref: 2006, Tom Smart, Lee Benson, In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation, page 262:
text: The plaintiff alleges that he was unlawfully detained at the airport by state troopers and threatened with arrest unless he produced identification and his travel documents.
ref: 2007, Transit Cooperative Research Program, TRCP Report 86: Public Transportation Passenger Security Inspections: A Guide for Policy Decision Makers, page 22:
synonyms: present
offer
glosses: To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
examples: text: David Tickle flew in to Melbourne to produce the quad-platinum (in Australia) LP “True Colors” and the triple gold single “I Got You”— both of which shot the band to international prominence.
ref: 1982 January 30, “Imported Producers Spread Early Sound to Global Markets”, in Billboard, page M-16:
text: I was just talking with someone in Bowling Green, Ohio who might produce us.
ref: 1989 February 12, Jim Fauntleroy, Ron Romanovsky, “'Music Is My Way Of Activism'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 10:
text: In 1940, he co-wrote the script for Broken Strings, an independently produced film in which he starred as a concert violinist.
ref: 2001, Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, page 56:
text: This beautifully produced film was introduced in 2003.
ref: 2011, Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012, page 570:
topics: media
glosses: To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
examples: text: to produce a side of a triangle
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
examples: text: And truely there goes a great deale of providence to produce a mans life unto threeſcore; […]
ref: 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
examples: text: highly produced sound
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
Derived terms: coproduce
executive produce
exec-produce
mass-produce
reproduce
Related terms: producer
producible
product
production
productive