production

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=duc=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

production, n. [L. productio a lengthening, prolonging: cf. F. production. See Produce. ].

•  The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of lengthening out or prolonging.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Product; produce; fruit; work; performance; composition.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

production, n.
1 the act or an instance of producing; the process of being produced.
2 the process of being manufactured, esp. in large quantities (go into production).
3 a total yield.
4 a thing produced, esp. a literary or artistic work, a film, play, etc.

Idiom

production line a systematized sequence of mechanical or manual operations involved in producing a commodity.

Derivative

productional n.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L productio -onis (as PRODUCT)

THESAURUS

production

Nachtmusik, absolute music, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adaptation, adventure, aftermath, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, article, artifact, assembly, attainment, autograph, bearing, benefit, best seller, bill, blow, book, bound book, brainchild, build, building, bumper crop, carrying out, casting, chamber music, chamber orchestra, child, classic, coinage, coloring book, composition, computer printout, concoction, conformation, constitution, construction, consummation, copy, coup, creation, creature, crop, crowning achievement, dealings, debut, deed, definitive work, demonstration, descant, development, direction, discharge, dispatch, display, distillation, document, doing, doings, draft, drama, dress rehearsal, edited version, effect, effectuation, effort, electronic music, elongation, enactment, end product, end result, endeavor, engrossment, enterprise, entertainment, essay, essence, etude, execution, exercise, exhibit, exhibition, exploit, exposition, exposure, extension, extract, fabric, fabrication, fair copy, fait accompli, farewell performance, fashion, fashioning, feat, fiction, film, final draft, finished version, first draft, flesh show, flimsy, folio, forging, form, format, formation, forming, frame, fructification, fruit, fruition, fulfillment, gest, getup, go, great work, hand, handiwork, hardback, harmonization, harvest, holograph, implementation, incidental music, instrumental music, invention, issue, job, juvenile, juvenile book, lengthening, letter, limp-cover book, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, magnum opus, make, makeup, making, maneuver, manufacture, manufacturing, manuscript, masterpiece, masterwork, matter, measure, mintage, mise-en-scene, mission accomplished, mold, molding, motion picture, mounting, move, movie, moving picture, multiplication, new mintage, nocturne, nonbook, nonfiction, notebook, novel, oeuvre, offspring, opening, opera, operation, opus, opuscule, opusculum, orchestration, organic structure, organism, organization, original, origination, ostentation, outcome, outgrowth, output, overt act, paper, paperback, parchment, passage, pattern, patterning, penscript, performance, physique, picture book, piece, piece of writing, plan, play, playbook, pocket book, poem, prayer book, premiere, preparation, presentation, presentment, printed matter, printout, proceeding, proceeds, produce, producing, product, program music, projection, proliferation, prolification, prolongation, protraction, psalmbook, psalter, publication, pullulation, putting out, reading matter, realization, recension, rehearsal, representation, reproduction, res gestae, result, retrospective, ricercar, run-through, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second crop, second draft, serial, setting, setup, shape, shaping, show, showing, sketchbook, soft-cover, sonata, sonatina, songbook, stage management, stage presentation, staging, standard work, step, storybook, strain, stretch, stretching, string orchestra, string quartet, stringing out, stroke, structure, structuring, study, stunt, success, swan song, tectonics, tension, texture, the written word, theatrical performance, theme and variations, thing, thing done, tissue, title, tome, tour de force, trade book, transaction, transcript, transcription, trio, tryout, turn, turnout, typescript, undertaking, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, variation, varnishing day, vernissage, version, vintage, volume, walk-through, warp and woof, weave, web, work, works, writing, yield

ROGET THESAURUS

production

Cause

N cause, origin, source, principle, element, occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile, vera causa, author, mainspring, agent, leaven, groundwork, foundation, spring, fountain, well, font, fountainhead, spring head, wellhead, fons et origo, genesis, descent, remote cause, influence, pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum, key, proximate cause, causa causans, straw that breaks the camel's back, ground, reason, reason why, why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation, final cause, les dessous des cartes, undercurrents, rudiment, egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm, nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed, causality, causation, origination, production, caused, causal, original, primary, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, protogenal, radical, embryonic, embryotic, in embryo, in ovo, seminal, germinal, at the bottom of, connate, having a common origin, because, behind the scenes, causa latet vis est notissima, felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

Effect

N effect, consequence, aftergrowth, aftercome, derivative, derivation, result, resultant, resultance, upshot, issue, denouement, end, development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud, production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance, creature, creation, offspring, offshoot, firstfruits, firstlings, heredity, telegony, premices premises, owing to, resulting from, derivable from, due to, caused by, dependent upon, derived from, evolved from, derivative, hereditary, telegonous, of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently, as a consequence, in consequence, through, all along of, necessarily, eventually, cela va sans dire, thereby hangs a tale.

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

Length

N length, longitude, span, mileage, distance, line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius, lengthening, prolongation, production, protraction, tension, tensure, extension, line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league, chain, link, arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara, astronomical unit, AU, light- year, parsec, nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km, pedometer, perambulator, scale, long, longsome, lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched, lengthened, sesquipedalian, interminable, no end of, macrocolous, linear, lineal, longitudinal, oblong, as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow, unshortened &c (shorten), lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along, tandem, in a line, in perspective, from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe, fore and aft.

Manifestation

N manifestation, plainness, plain speaking, expression, showing, exposition, demonstration, exhibition, production, display, show, showing off, premonstration, exhibit, indication, publicity, disclosure, openness panchement, evidence, manifest, apparent, salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent, in the foreground, notable, pronounced, flagrant, notorious, arrant, stark staring, unshaded, glaring, defined, definite, distinct, conspicuous, obvious, evident, unmistakable, indubitable, not to be mistaken, palpable, self-evident, autoptical, intelligible, plain, clear, clear as day, clear as daylight, clear as noonday, plain as a pike staff, plain as the sun at noon-day, plain as the nose on one's face, plain as the way to parish church, explicit, overt, patent, express, ostensible, open, open as day, naked, bare, literal, downright, undisguised, exoteric, unreserved, frank, plain-spoken, candid (veracious), barefaced, manifested, disclosed, capable of being shown, producible, inconcealable, unconcealable, no secret, manifestly, openly, before one's eyes, under one's nose, to one's face, face to face, above board, cartes sur table, on the stage, in open court, in the open streets, in market overt, in the face of day, face of heaven, in broad daylight, in open daylight, without reserve, at first blush, prima facie, on the face of, in set terms, cela saute aux yeux, he that runs may read, you can see it with half an eye, it needs no ghost to tell us, the meaning lies on the surface, cela va sans dire, res ipsa loquitur, clothing the palpable and familiar, fari quae sentiat, volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the.