produce en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- prədyo͞osʹ yod-coalescence
- (General-American) audio
- /pɹəˈdus/
- /pɹəˈdjuːs/ non-yod-coalescence
- /pɹəˈd͡ʒuːs/ yod-coalescence
- prədo͞osʹ
- (Australia) audio
- (US) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcōder. Middle English produce English produce From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”).
Meanings
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(transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
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: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:Besides, some of the rejected dimuons were produced in collisions downstream of the target region (in the beam dump or in the hadron absorber, for instance).
2010, Carlos Laurenço, Hermine K. Wöhri, edited by Helmut Satz, Sourav Sarkar, and Bikash Sinha, The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures, Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 785, Measuring Dimuons Produced in Proton-Nucleus Collisions in the NA60 Experiment at the SPS, page 280:[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: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: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: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:
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(intransitive) To 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:
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(transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
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: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 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: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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(transitive) To 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: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:
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To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
to produce a side of a triangle
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(obsolete) To 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:
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To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
highly produced sound
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| producing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| produced | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| produced | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| produces | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
hyperproduce · coproduce · interproduce · reproduce · exec-produce · misproduce · preproduce · executive produce · producement · handproduce · mass-produce · outproduce · underproduce · overproduce
Descendants
Relateds
producible · producer · productive · product · production
Synonyms
innate · forthbring · offer · create · contrive · make · evolve · produce · bring forth · develop · form · create · present · yield · ferment · forge · gin up · cause · spawn · engender · make · generate · generate
Translations (152)
io produktar (to make or manufacture) · km ផលិត (to make or manufacture) · cs vyrobit (to make or manufacture) · ang forþberan (to make or manufacture) · fi tuottaa (to make or manufacture) · yi אַרויסגעבן (to make or manufacture) · sk produkovať (to make or manufacture) · lv pagatavot (to make or manufacture) · th ผลิต (to make or manufacture) · vi chế tạo (to make or manufacture) · ro face (to make or manufacture) · vi sản xuất (to make or manufacture) · hu bemutat (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · sl izdelati (to make or manufacture) · alt эдип салар (to make or manufacture) · ckb دەرھێنان (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · te తయారు చేయు (to make or manufacture) · kum этмек (to make or manufacture) · he ייצר \ יִצֵּר (to make or manufacture) · es producir (to make or manufacture) · de produzieren (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · ko 만들다 (to make or manufacture) · grc φύω (to make or manufacture) · ca produir (to make or manufacture) · lv taisīt (to make or manufacture) · it realizzare (to make or manufacture) · mi whakanaonao (to make or manufacture) · nl beschikbaar stellen (to make available to) · is pródúsera (to make or manufacture) · lv izgatavot (to make or manufacture) · zza pêrotene (to make or manufacture) · cmn 监制 (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · ru произвести́ (to make or manufacture) · kum салмакъ (to make or manufacture) · sh proìzvesti (to make or manufacture) · gl xerar (to make or manufacture) · nl produceren (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · hu megmutat (to make available to) · uk ви́робити (to make or manufacture) · hu előállít (to make or manufacture) · el παράγω (to make or manufacture) · eo produkti (to make or manufacture) · pl produkować (to make or manufacture) · ky өндүрүү (to make or manufacture) · bg продуци́рам (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · bg предоста́вям (to make available to) · ja 生産する (to make or manufacture) · grc τίκτω (to make or manufacture) · is pródúsa (to make or manufacture) · nl produceren (to make or manufacture) · yue 生產 /生产 (to make or manufacture) · de herstellen (to make or manufacture) · tg истеҳсол кардан (to make or manufacture) · fa فراوردن (to make or manufacture) · hu színre visz (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · ang forþbringan (to make or manufacture) · sv producera (to make or manufacture) · lt gaminti (to make or manufacture) · cmn 生產 /生产 (to make or manufacture) · yue 製造 /制造 (to make or manufacture) · om oomishuu (to make or manufacture) · te ఉత్పత్తిచేయు (to make or manufacture) · hu elővesz (to make available to) · txb täm- (to make or manufacture) · cmn 制作 (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · hu benyújt (to make available to) · sh проѝзвести (to make or manufacture) · zdj utoa (to make or manufacture) · sk vyrábať (to make or manufacture) · sl proizvajati (to make or manufacture) · nl maken (to make or manufacture) · hu termel (to make or manufacture) · gl producir (to make or manufacture) · sl izdelovati (to make or manufacture) · be прадукава́ць (to make or manufacture) · fi tehdä (to make or manufacture) · ko 생산하다 (to make or manufacture) · lv ražot (to make or manufacture) · ar صَنَعَ (to make or manufacture) · de produzieren (to make or manufacture) · sa जनयति (to make or manufacture) · cmn 制造 (to make or manufacture) · be вы́тварыць (to make or manufacture) · uk продукува́ти (to make or manufacture) · la prōdūcō (to make or manufacture) · be вырабля́ць (to make or manufacture) · sh произво̀дити (to make or manufacture) · ja 製造する (to make or manufacture) · pl wytwarzać (to make or manufacture) · mk произведе (to make or manufacture) · tl magprodukto (to make or manufacture) · mk произведува (to make or manufacture) · it produrre (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · ru производи́ть (to make or manufacture) · is útvega (to make available to) · bg израбо́твам (to make or manufacture) · it fornire (to make available to) · is framleiða (to make or manufacture) · is framleiða (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · hu gyárt (to make or manufacture) · fr produire (to make or manufacture) · be вытвара́ць (to make or manufacture) · sh producírati (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · lol bota (to make or manufacture) · hu bemutat (to make available to) · lv izstrādāt (to make or manufacture) · mi whakaputa (to make or manufacture) · te నిర్మించు (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · hy արտադրել (to make or manufacture) · kum юрютмек (to make or manufacture) · la prōdō (to make or manufacture) · ang forþlǣdan (to make or manufacture) · it produrre (to make or manufacture) · hu létrehoz (to make or manufacture) · bg израбо́тя (to make or manufacture) · pl wytworzyć (to make or manufacture) · mi whakanao (to make or manufacture) · zdj utooa (to make or manufacture) · hu felmutat (to make available to) · fi valmistaa (to make or manufacture) · fa تولید کردن (to make or manufacture) · fi tuottaa (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · cs produkovat (to make or manufacture) · fi esittää (to make available to) · ang ācennan (to make or manufacture) · bg произведа́ (to make or manufacture) · uk виробля́ти (to make or manufacture) · nl maken (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · arz انتج (to make or manufacture) · sl proizvesti (to make or manufacture) · khb ᦵᦣᧆᦉᦱᧂᧉ (to make or manufacture) · ko 제조하다 (to make or manufacture) · ro produce (to make or manufacture) · ga táirg (to make or manufacture) · lv producēt (to make or manufacture) · sk vyrobiť (to make or manufacture) · bg произве́ждам (to make or manufacture) · mhr ышташ (to make or manufacture) · sh proizvòditi (to make or manufacture) · tg тавлид кардан (to make or manufacture) · la pariō (to make or manufacture) · hi उत्पादन करना (to make or manufacture) · az istehsal etmək (to make or manufacture) · de vorlegen (to make available to) · be вы́рабіць (to make or manufacture) · ia producer (to make or manufacture) · cs vyrábět (to make or manufacture) · es realizar (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)) · nl voorleggen (to make available to) · ar أَنْتَجَ (to make or manufacture) · pt produzir (to make or manufacture) · tr üretmek (to make or manufacture)