 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
produce
noun: fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market [syn: {green
goods}, {green groceries}, {garden truck}]
verb
1: bring forth or yield; "The tree would not produce fruit"
[syn: {bring forth}]
2: create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more
cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys
for two centuries" [syn: {make}, {create}]
3: cause to occur or exist; "This procedure produces a curious
effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints";
"These chemicals produce a noxious vapor" [syn: {bring
about}, {give rise}]
4: bring out for display; "The proud father produced many
pictures of his baby"; "The accused brought forth a letter
in court that he claims exonerates him" [syn: {bring forth}]
5: bring onto the market or release; "produce a movie"; "bring
out a book"; "produce a new play" [syn: {bring on}, {bring
out}]
6: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means
of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces
great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We
grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: {grow}, {raise},
{farm}]
7: come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and
attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed
abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body";
"Well-developed breasts" [syn: {grow}, {develop}, {get}, {acquire}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Produce \Pro*duce"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Produced}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Producing}.] [L. producere, productum, to bring
forward, beget, produce; pro forward, forth + ducere to lead.
See {Duke}.]
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. --Isa. xli.
21.
Your parents did not produce you much into the
world. --Swift.
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.
--Sandys.
[They] produce prodigious births of body or mind. --
Milton.
The greatest jurist his country had produced.
--Macaulay.
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. --Sir T. Browne.
7. (Geom.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or
solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Produce \Pro*duce"\, verb (used without an object)
To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects,
consequences, or results.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Produce \Prod"uce\ (?; 277), noun
That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product;
yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural
labors; hence, specifically, agricultural products.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
362 Moby Thesaurus words for "produce":
Irish potato, Kraut, accomplish, achieve, act, adduce, advance,
affect, aftermath, allege, array, assemble, attain, aubergine,
author, avails, baked goods, be a gas, be a hit, be productive,
beans, bear, bear fruit, bearing, beget, betoken, bill, bomb,
box office, brandish, breathe, breed, bring about, bring forth,
bring forward, bring into being, bring into view, bring off,
bring on, bring out, bring to bear, bring to effect,
bring to fruition, bring to light, bring to notice, bring to pass,
bring up, build, bumper crop, cabbage, canned goods, cast, cause,
citrus fruit, coin, collaborate, commissions, commit, compass,
compose, compound, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct,
construct, consummate, continue, create, credit, credits, crop,
cultivate, dangle, dash off, deal with, deliver, demonstrate,
deploy, develop, devise, discharge, disclose, dispatch, display,
disposable income, dispose of, distribute, dividend, dividends,
divulge, do, do the job, do the trick, do to, drag out, dramatize,
draw, draw on, draw out, dream up, drupe, earned income, earnings,
editorialize, effect, effectuate, eggplant, elaborate, elongate,
embody, enact, engender, engineer, erect, establish, evidence,
evince, evoke, evolve, excrete, execute, exhibit,
experience imaginatively, expose to view, express, extend, extrude,
fabricate, fail, fancy, fantasize, fashion, father, feature, fetch,
fictionalize, flaunt, flop, flourish, food items, form, formulate,
found, frame, free-lance, fructify, fruit, fruit cocktail,
fruit compote, fruit soup, fudge together, fulfill, furnish, gains,
gate, gate receipts, generate, gestate, get, get up, ghost,
ghostwrite, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to,
give out, give rise to, give sign, give token, go and do,
green goods, greens, groceries, grocery, gross, gross income,
gross receipts, grow, harvest, hatch, headline, highlight, ideate,
illuminate, imagine, inaugurate, incarnate, income, indicate,
indite, induce, industrialize, inflict, initiate, institute,
intake, introduce, invent, knock off, knock out, lactate, legumes,
lengthen, lengthen out, let out, love apple, mad apple, make,
make a hit, make clear, make plain, make up, manage, manifest,
manufacture, marshal, mass-produce, materialize, mature, mean,
melodramatize, mold, mould, mount, multiply, muster up, net,
net income, net receipts, novelize, occasion, offer, open,
open a show, originate, output, overproduce, packaged goods,
pamphleteer, parade, parent, patch together, pay, perform,
perpetrate, piece together, pieplant, plead, polish off, potato,
potherbs, prefabricate, premiere, prepare, present, preview,
proceeds, procreate, product, production, profits, prolong,
prolongate, prompt, propagate, protract, provide, pull, pull off,
put away, put forth, put on, put out, put together, put up, raise,
rally, realize, rear, receipt, receipts, receivables, render,
represent, reproduce, returns, reveal, revenue, rhubarb, roll out,
royalties, run up, scenarize, secern, second crop, secrete, secure,
set afloat, set forth, set on foot, set the stage, set up, shape,
show, show forth, sire, spark, spawn, spin out, spotlight, spud,
stage, star, start, stone fruit, strain, stretch, stretch out,
string out, succeed, supply, suppose, take, take and do,
take care of, take-in, takings, tater, tauten, tear, tense,
theatricalize, think up, throughput, throw on paper, tighten,
tinned goods, token, tomato, trot out, truck, try out, turn out,
turn the trick, unearned income, unfold, up and do, vegetables,
vintage, volume-produce, water, wave, weep, white potato, whomp up,
work, work out, work up, wreak, write, yield
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