produce
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
media
music
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Latin dūcō
Latin prōdūcōder.
Middle English produce
English produce
From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”).
Inflected forms:
form: produces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: producing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: produced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: produced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [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.
Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.
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.
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.
We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.
He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.
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).
gloss: To make or yield something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was necessary for the prisoner to produce a witness to prove his innocency.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
I was just talking with someone in Bowling Green, Ohio who might produce us.
In 1940, he co-wrote the script for Broken Strings, an independently produced film in which he starred as a concert violinist.
This beautifully produced film was introduced in 2003.
gloss: To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
pos: verb
examples: to produce a side of a triangle
gloss: To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: And truely there goes a great deale of providence to produce a mans life unto threeſcore; […]
gloss: To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
pos: verb
examples: highly produced sound
gloss: That which is produced.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yard produce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.
Taking a retrospect, then, of fourteen years preceding 1860, and making two periods of seven years each, the value of the exports of the produce or manufactures of this country to Australia has been, for the annual average of the first seven years, 1846-52, 2½ millions sterling; while for the second period, 1856-59, the annual average has been 11 millions.
While it is true that New Zealand′s economic stake in the region [of Oceania] remained relatively small when compared with the major markets for New Zealand produce in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe, it nevertheless remained the region through which trade must pass on its way to these larger markets.
A farm supervisor is employed to coordinate the planting and harvesting of produce by volunteers.
gloss: Offspring.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: With regard to the mare that has proved herself of the first class during her racing career, let us contrast the probable success of her produce […]
gloss: Livestock and pet food supplies.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
Related words: producer
producible
product
production
productive
Derived words: coproduce
executive produce
exec-produce
handproduce
hyperproduce
interproduce
mass-produce
misproduce
outproduce
overproduce
preproduce
producement
reproduce
underproduce
bioproduce
produce broker
produce race
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