produce

present singular third person produces · participle present producing · participle past produced · past produced

1. transitiveTo bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.

   We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.

   2006 November 21, Kenya National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): Parliamentary Debates, page 3805

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   [chapter XIII, page 264:] […] the greatest jurist that his country had produced. […] [chapter XVI, page 644:] At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind.

   1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

   Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.

   1999, Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification, volume 3, CSIRO Publishing, page 72

   For example, Mary Lou Morris, past president of the Environment Institute of Australia, has been her country′s delegate to a number of global environmental conferences and helped to produce the Australian National Heritage Charter.

   2000, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, quoting Jane McGary, Environment: Australia and New Zealand, quoted in Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension, page 567

   The Agreement criminalizes end-user piracy and requires Australia to authorize the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of counterfeit and pirated goods and the equipment used to produce them.

   2006, Office of the United States Trade Representative, National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: 2006, page 29

   He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.

   2008, Primary Australian History: Book F, R.I.C. Publications, page 43

   Synonyms: make, generate, yield, create, bring forth, cause, contrive, create · Antonyms: destroy, ruin

2. intransitiveTo make or yield something.

   Now it is also my understanding, I believe I am correct in this, that either one or two other manufacturers did not produce this year, which also created a certain shortage.

   1968, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business, Hearings, page 550

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

   It was necessary for the prisoner to produce a witness to prove his innocency.

   1810, Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings, volume 8

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   The bottom of the barrel was scraped on August 22 when Shrewsbury had to produce Taunton 2-6-0 No. 6312 to work the 8.10 p.m. from Paddington between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury; the stranger was in trouble in the early hours of the next morning at Hollinswood, but managed to reach Shrewsbury.

   1961 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 635

   LDS security produced identification information, photographs, and videotape of an anti-Mormon preacher who they said called himself Emmanuel and was often seen around Temple Square, especially at conference time.

   2006, Tom Smart, Lee Benson, In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation, page 262

   The plaintiff alleges that he was unlawfully detained at the airport by state troopers and threatened with arrest unless he produced identification and his travel documents.

   2007, Transit Cooperative Research Program, TRCP Report 86: Public Transportation Passenger Security Inspections: A Guide for Policy Decision Makers, page 22

   Synonyms: present, offer

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

   This beautifully produced film was introduced in 2003.

   2011, Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012, page 570

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   David Tickle flew in to Melbourne to produce the quad-platinum (in Australia) LP “True Colors” and the triple gold single “I Got You”— both of which shot the band to international prominence.

   1982 January 30, “Imported Producers Spread Early Sound to Global Markets”, in Billboard, page M-16

   I was just talking with someone in Bowling Green, Ohio who might produce us.

   1989 February 12, Jim Fauntleroy, Ron Romanovsky, “'Music Is My Way Of Activism'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 10

   In 1940, he co-wrote the script for Broken Strings, an independently produced film in which he starred as a concert violinist.

   2001, Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, page 56

5. mathematicsTo extend an area, or lengthen a line.

   to produce a side of a triangle

6. obsoleteTo draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.

   And truely there goes a great deale of providence to produce a mans life unto threeſcore; […]

   1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, page 90

7. entertainmentTo alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.

   highly produced sound

1. uncountableThat which is produced.

   Synonyms: output, proceeds, product, yield

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

   A farm supervisor is employed to coordinate the planting and harvesting of produce by volunteers.

   2008, Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings, Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices, page 230

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   All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yard produce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.

   1852, F. Lancelott, Australia As It Is: Its Settlements, Farms and Gold Fields, page 151

   Taking a retrospect, then, of fourteen years preceding 1860, and making two periods of seven years each, the value of the exports of the produce or manufactures of this country to Australia has been, for the annual average of the first seven years, 1846-52, 2½ millions sterling; while for the second period, 1856-59, the annual average has been 11 millions.

   1861, William Westgarth, Australia: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition, page 54

   While it is true that New Zealand′s economic stake in the region [of Oceania] remained relatively small when compared with the major markets for New Zealand produce in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe, it nevertheless remained the region through which trade must pass on its way to these larger markets.

   1999, Bruce Brown, Malcolm McKinnon, New Zealand in World Affairs, 1972-1990, page 291

3. uncountableOffspring.

   With regard to the mare that has proved herself of the first class during her racing career, let us contrast the probable success of her produce […]

   1865, The Turf and the Racehorse

4. AustraliauncountableLivestock and pet food supplies.