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Produce   /prədˈus/  /prˈoʊdus/   Listen
Produce

verb
(past & past part. produced; pres. part. producing)
1.
Bring forth or yield.  Synonym: bring forth.
2.
Create or manufacture a man-made product.  Synonyms: create, make.  "The company has been making toys for two centuries"
3.
Cause to happen, occur or exist.  Synonyms: bring about, give rise.  "The new law gave rise to many complaints" , "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor" , "The new President must bring about a change in the health care system"
4.
Bring out for display.  Synonym: bring forth.  "The accused brought forth a letter in court that he claims exonerates him"
5.
Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques.  Synonyms: farm, grow, raise.  "They produce good ham in Parma" , "We grow wheat here" , "We raise hogs here"
6.
Bring onto the market or release.  Synonyms: bring on, bring out.  "Bring out a book" , "Produce a new play"
7.
Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes).  Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, grow.  "The patient developed abdominal pains" , "I got funny spots all over my body" , "Well-developed breasts"
noun
1.
Fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market.  Synonyms: garden truck, green goods, green groceries.



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"Produce" Quotes from Famous Books



... perceived what long dumb processes of thought and feeling had gone on in her to produce this hardened state of mind, which to him seemed almost blasphemous. And in the very midst of this turmoil in his heart, he could not help thinking how lovely her face looked, lying back so that the curve of her throat was bared, with the short tendrils of hair ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... of wit and learning and to doctors everywhere, Skilled to find the hidden meanings riddles and enigmas bear, Come expound to me what is it that ye see a bird produce, 'Mongst the Arabs and barbarians and wherever else ye fare; Neither flesh nor blood, I warrant, hath the thing whereof I speak; Neither down nor feathers, birdwise, for a garment doth it wear. Boiled it is and likewise roasted, ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume IV • Anonymous

... and they supply no copy for the society newspapers. It is the other people who advertise their woes. It is the unhappily married who make a noise. Only the very greatest novelists can make a good novel out of the story of a successful marriage. But apparently almost anyone can produce stories that people will read if only he or she puts in enough highly colored material about the aberrations of lovers and the possible ways in which marriage can be wrecked. It is sheer untruth to say that most marriages are ...
— Men, Women, and God • A. Herbert Gray

... a neighboring village, where he kept "bachelor's hall"; he had a piano, a cabinet organ, a bugle, a guitar and several other musical instruments, including one fairly valuable old violin from which he was wont of an evening to produce wonderfully ...
— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens

... subject of malaria, an Italian term for the produce of marshy lands, the attention of the public has lately been powerfully excited by a series of essays by Dr. Macculloch, an abstract of which will be found at page 252, of our accompanying Number, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, - Issue 278, Supplementary Number (1828) • Various


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