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/prədˈus/ /prˈoʊdus/ Listen

verb

Produce v. t. (past & past part. produced; pres. part. producing)

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. "Produce your cause, saith the Lord." "Your parents did not produce you much into the world."

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. "This soil produces all sorts of palm trees." "(They) produce prodigious births of body or mind." "The greatest jurist his country had produced."

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.

4.

To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.

5.

To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.

6.

To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.

7.

(Geom.) To extend; applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.

Produce v. i. To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.

noun

Produce n. That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors; hence, specifically, Agricultural products.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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