produce

Speech parts

1. produce - Noun

2. produce - Verb

Meaning

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.

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.

To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

agricultural products.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bring forth make create develop bring about form present effect provide cause bear supply build grow fashion
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Antonyms

destroy ruin result base basis bull
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Hypernyms

make change create food display exhibit

Hyponyms

apple orange corn tiller have result

Phrases with the word

produce an original work produce the desired result produce again be unable to produce produce writing produce crops

Derivatives

produced producing

Examples

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all. Ambrose

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. Aristotle

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. Henry James

The trees with most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit. Brazilian Proverb

Not all the flowers of a tree produce fruit. Mauritania Proverb

You cannot produce one human being without uniting two bodies. Cameroon Proverb

Close letter words and terms

prodromus prodrop prodrug produce a copy of produce again produce an original work