Definitions for produce
prəˈdus, -ˈdyus; ˈprɒd us, -yus, ˈproʊ dus, -dyuspro·duce

Princeton's WordNet(3.33 / 15 votes)Rate this definition:

1. produce, green goods, green groceries, garden truckverb

   fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market

2. produce, bring forthverb

   bring forth or yield

   "The tree would not produce fruit"

3. produce, make, createverb

   create or manufacture a man-made product

   "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"

4. produce, bring about, give riseverb

   cause to happen, occur or exist

   "This procedure produces a curious effect"; "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"

5. produce, bring forthverb

   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"

6. grow, raise, farm, produceverb

   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"

7. produce, bring on, bring outverb

   bring onto the market or release

   "produce a movie"; "bring out a book"; "produce a new play"

8. grow, develop, produce, get, acquireverb

   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"

Wiktionary(3.00 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. producenoun

   Items produced.

2. producenoun

   Amount produced.

3. producenoun

   Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.

4. producenoun

   Offspring.

5. producenoun

   Livestock and pet food supplies.

6. produceverb

   To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.

7. produceverb

   To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.

8. produceverb

   To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.

9. produceverb

   To extend an area, or lengthen a line.

10. Etymology: From produco, from pro + duco.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Producenoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Product; that which any thing yields or brings.

   You hoard not health for your own private use,
   But on the publick spend the rich produce. Dryden.

   2. Amount; profit; gain; emergent sum or quantity.

   In Staffordshire, after their lands are marled, they sow it with barley, allowing three bushels to an acre. Its common produce is thirty bushels. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   This tax has already been so often tried, that we know the exact produce of it. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 20.

2. To PRODUCEverb

   Etymology: produco, Lat. produire, Fr.

   1. To offer to the view or notice.

   Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons. Isa. xli. 21.

   2. To exhibit to the publick.

   Your parents did not produce you much into the world, whereby you avoided many wrong steps. Jonathan Swift.

   3. To bring as evidence.

   It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,
   To be produc’d against the Moor. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   4. To bear; to bring forth, as a vegetable.

   This soil produces all sorts of palm-trees. George Sandys.

   5. To cause; to effect; to generate; to beget.

   Somewhat is produced of nothing; for lyes are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. Francis Bacon.

   They by imprudence mix’d
   Produce prodigious births of body or mind. John Milton.

   Thou all this good of evil shalt produce. John Milton.

   Clouds may rain, and rain produce
   Fruits in her soften’d soil. John Milton.

   Observing in ourselves, that we can at pleasure move several parts of our bodies; the effects also, that natural bodies are able to produce in one another, occurring every moment to our senses, we both these ways get the idea of power. John Locke.

   Hinder light but from striking on porphyre, and its colours vanish, it no longer produces any such ideas; upon the return of light, it produces these appearances again. John Locke.

   This wonder of the sculptor’s hand
   Produc’d, his art was at a stand. Addison.

Webster Dictionary(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Produceverb

   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

2. Produceverb

   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

3. Produceverb

   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. Produceverb

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

5. Produceverb

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

6. Produceverb

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

7. Produceverb

   to extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle

8. Produceverb

   to yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results

9. Producenoun

   that which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors

10. Producenoun

    agricultural products

11. Etymology: [L. producere, productum, to bring forward, beget, produce; pro forward, forth + ducere to lead. See Duke.]

Freebase(3.25 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Produce

   Produce is a generalized term for a group of farm-produced crops and goods, including fruits and vegetables More specifically, the term "produce" often implies that the products are fresh and generally in the same state as where they were harvested. In supermarkets the term is also used to refer to the section where fruit and vegetables are kept. Produce is the main product sold by greengrocers, farmers' markets, and fruit markets. In some parts of the world, including the United States, produce is marked with small stickers bearing price look-up codes. These four or five digit codes are a standardized system intended to aid checkout and inventory control in produce markets.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Produce

   prō-dūs′, v.t. to bring forward: to make longer: to bring forth: to bear: to exhibit: to yield: to bring about: to cause: (geom.) to extend.—v.i. to yield: to create value.—ns. Prod′uce, that which is produced: product: proceeds: crops: yield; Prod′uce-brok′er, a dealer in natural products, esp. foreign or colonial; Produc′er; Producibil′ity.—adj. Produc′ible, that may be produced: that may be generated or made: that may be exhibited.—n. Produc′ibleness.—adj. Produc′tile, capable of being drawn out in length. [L. producĕre, -ductum—pro, forward, ducĕre, to lead.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. produce

   To create.

   They did produce the food that was necessary for the family to live sustainably.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 12, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Agriculture
   • Change
   • Cultivate

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'produce' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #906

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'produce' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1212

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'produce' in Verbs Frequency: #68

Anagrams for produce »

1. crouped

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of produce in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of produce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of produce in a Sentence

1. Dmitry Polishchuk:

   We plan to further increase the fleet, by as much as even a thousand cars. We can produce the first thousand cars fairly quickly within one and half and two years, this is needed to check changes quickly in the algorithms we are making.

2. Nervous Flyers Bunn:

   Anybody who’s got anxiety in their lives when they get on a plane is more likely to produce post-traumatic stress.

3. Alexei Sharshkov:

   Piglets go on to produce a new generation of sport pigs. They don't get eaten, how could you eat a competitor who is known around the world?

4. Dane Davis:

   Contract negotiations are particularly important this year. If we see disruptions (to output), it could push the market into deficit and produce a strong driver to prices.

5. Nattapong Nithi-Uthai:

   There should be designated places for every single item to go. If things are piled up somewhere, they can leak into the ocean, producers should also be made responsible for taking back the single-use plastic they produce ... This might make them think twice about producing single-use packaging.

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