production
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
zoology
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 prōdūcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin prōductiōder.
Old French productionbor.
Middle English produccioun
English production
From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). Equivalent to produce + -tion. See produce.
Base: produce
Affixes: -tion
Inflected forms:
form: productions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of producing, making or creating something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The widget making machine is being used for production now.
gloss: The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I tramped to a neighbouring market-town, and, late as the hour was, the production of a few shillings procured me supper and a night's lodging in a cheap coffee-house.
gloss: The act of being produced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The widgets are coming out of production now.
gloss: The total amount produced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.
The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
The UAE’s decision had been rumored as a possibility for some time, as it pushed back in recent years against OPEC production quotas it felt had been too low — meaning it wasn’t able to sell as much oil to the world as it had wanted.
gloss: The presentation of a theatrical work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We went to a production of Hamlet.
gloss: An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He made a simple meal into a huge production.
gloss: That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This is the final production model.
gloss: The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An extension or protrusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Each production is implemented with a function.
gloss: The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: production environment
live production database
gloss: Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: agroproduction
anarchy of production
autoproduction
batch production
bioproduction
Breit-Wheeler pair production
burden of production
co-production
coproduction
desiring-production
electroproduction
eroduction
factor of production
flow production
hadroproduction
hyperproduction
hypoproduction
industrial livestock production
job production
leptoproduction
make a production out of
mass production
means of production
mesoproduction
misproduction
mode of production
multiproduction
nanoproduction
nonproduction
osteoproduction
overproduction
pair production
photoproduction
post-production
pre-production
preproduction
primary production
productionable
productional
production baby
production brigade
production car
production code
production externality
production hell
productionisation
productionise
productionize
productionist
productionless
production line
production manager
production means
production model
production music
production order
production possibility curve
production record
production team
production value
productionwise
produsage
prosumption
relation of production
relations of production
reproduction
request for production
risk production
underproduction
unproduction
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