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/prədˈus/ /prˈoʊdus/ Listen

verb

Produce v. t. (past & past part. produced; pres. part. producing)

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." "Your parents did not produce you much into the world."

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." "(They) produce prodigious births of body or mind." "The greatest jurist his country had produced."

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.

7.

(Geom.) To extend; applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.

Produce v. i. To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.

noun

Produce n. That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors; hence, specifically, Agricultural products.

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"Produce" Quotes from Famous Books

... childbed, he had one son; a fact which he sedulously concealed from the world of Paris by keeping the unhappy boy—who was now some eighteen or nineteen years old—a perpetual exile in England. Monsieur de Vaudemont did not wish to pass for more than thirty, and he considered that to produce a son of eighteen would be to make the lad a monster of ingratitude by giving the lie every hour to his own father! In spite of this precaution the Vicomte found great difficulty in getting a third ...

— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... the South for a crime which they were the last people on earth to dream of committing is, of course, a power to be used—but with caution. The first execution of a Southern leader on such an idiotic charge would produce a revolution of sentiment. The people are ...

— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon

... horses, told me these hanks of yarn were first spun and then dyed by the good wives, preparatory to being sent to the loom. She showed me some of this home- spun cloth, which really looked very well. It was a dullish dark brown, the wool being the produce of a breed of black sheep. This cloth is made up in different ways for ...

— The Backwoods of Canada • Catharine Parr Traill

... a distance. Do I accept it? Certainly not. She must prove and re-prove before I yield a point. But if I am still a sceptic, I have at least ceased to be a scoffer. We are to have a sitting this evening, and she is to try if she can produce any mesmeric effect upon me. If she can, it will make an excellent starting-point for our investigation. No one can accuse me, at any rate, of complicity. If she cannot, we must try and find some subject who will be like Caesar's ...

— The Parasite • Arthur Conan Doyle

... manager was again guilty of an unprofessional action. He whistled softly under his breath. A very respectable client he had always considered Mr. Stephen Laverick, but he had certainly never suspected him of being able to produce at a pinch such evidence of means. Laverick smoothed out the notes and laid them upon ...

— Havoc • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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