Produce

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: pro=duce

CIDE DICTIONARY

Produce, v. t. [L. producere, productum, to bring forward, beget, produce; pro forward, forth + ducere to lead. See Duke.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Produce your cause, saith the Lord."  [1913 Webster]

  "Your parents did not produce you much into the world."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "This soil produces all sorts of palm trees."  [1913 Webster]

  "[They] produce prodigious births of body or mind."  [1913 Webster]

  "The greatest jurist his country had produced."  [1913 Webster]
•  To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.  [1913 Webster]
•  To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.  [1913 Webster]
•  To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.  [1913 Webster]
•  To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]
•  To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.  [1913 Webster]

Produce, v. i. 

 To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.  [1913 Webster]

Produce, n. 

 That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Produce, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 bring forward for consideration, inspection, or use (will produce evidence).
2 manufacture (goods) from raw materials etc.
3 bear or yield (offspring, fruit, a harvest, etc.).
4 bring into existence.
5 cause or bring about (a reaction, sensation, etc.).
6 Geom. extend or continue (a line).
7 a bring (a play, performer, book, etc.) before the public. b supervise the production of (a film, broadcast, etc.).
--n.
1 a what is produced, esp. agricultural and natural products collectively (dairy produce). b an amount of this.
2 (often foll. by of) a result (of labour, efforts, etc.).
3 a yield, esp. in the assay of ore.

Derivative

producible adj. producibility n.

Etymology

ME f. L producere (as PRO-(1), ducere duct- lead)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Produce

Increase

N increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension, dilatation, increment, accretion, accession, development, growth, aggrandizement, aggravation, rise, ascent, exaggeration exacerbation, spread, flood tide, gain, produce, product, profit, increased, on the increase, undiminished, additional, crescendo, vires acquirit eundo.

Acquisition

N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.

VB acquire, get, gain, win, earn, obtain, procure, gather, collect, pick, pickup, glean, find, come upon, pitch upon, light upon, scrape up, scrape together, get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure, derive, draw, get in the harvest, profit, make profit, draw profit, turn a quick profit, turn to profit, turn to account, make capital out of, make money by, obtain a return, reap the fruits of, reap an advantage, gain an advantage, turn a penny, turn an honest penny, make the pot boil, bring grist to the mill, make money, coin money, raise money, raise funds, raise the wind, fill one's pocket, treasure up, realize, clear, produce, take, get back, recover, regain, retrieve, revendicate, replevy, redeem, come by one's own, come by, come in for, receive, inherit, step into a fortune, step into the shoes of, succeed to, get hold of, get between one's finger and thumb, get into one's hand, get at, take possession, come into possession, enter into possession, be profitable, pay, answer, accrue.

Merchandise

N merchandise, ware, commodity, effects, goods, article, stock, product, produce, staple commodity, stock in trade, cargo.

Cause

VB be the cause of, originate, give origin to, give rise, to, give occasion to, cause, occasion, sow the seeds of, kindle, suscitate, bring on, bring to bring pass, bring about, produce, create, set up, set afloat, set on foot, found, broach, institute, lay the foundation of, lie at the root of, procure, induce, draw down, open the door to, superinduce, evoke, entail, operate, elicit, provoke, conduce to, contribute, have a hand in the pie, have a finger in the pie, determine, decide, turn the scale, have a common origin, derive its origin.

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

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.

Productiveness

VB make productive, fructify, procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate, fecundate, fecundify, teem, multiply, produce, conceive.

Length

VB be long, stretch out, sprawl, extend to, reach to, stretch to, make a long arm, drag its slow length along, render long, lengthen, extend, elongate, stretch, prolong, produce, protract, let out, draw out, spin out, drawl, enfilade, look along, view in perspective, distend (expand).

Manifestation

VB make manifest, render manifest, bring forth, bring forward, bring to the front, bring into view, give notice, express, represent, set forth, exhibit, show, show up, expose, produce, hold up to view, expose to view, set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes, tell to one's face, trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light, display, demonstrate, unroll, lay open, draw out, bring out, bring out in strong relief, call into notice, bring into notice, hold up the mirror, wear one's heart upon his sleeve, show one's face, show one's colors, manifest oneself, speak out, make no mystery, make no secret of, unfurl the flag, proclaim, indicate, disclose, elicit, be manifest, appear, transpire, speak for itself, stand to reason, stare one in the face, rear its head, give token, give sign, give indication of, tell its own tale.