Dictionary

productor en · NOUN

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 prōdūcō Latin prōductusder. Middle English product English product Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English productor From product + -or.

Meanings

1. Synonym of producer.
   • But, although love may be the original productor of many co-existent passions, these arise from subsequent causes, and are never to be considered as other than collateral effects, which a peculiarity of circumstances alone can produce, and which a fortuitous change may increase or annul. 1811 October 14, “Charltoniana. On Love.”, in The Washingtonian, volume II, number 65, Windsor, Vt.:
   • ’Twas Tarlton whose great spleene and working braine / Was the productor of this monster first, / Who for some priuat wrong he did sustaine, / An inward hate, and bosome treason nurst, / Against his Prince, which afterwards did burst / Into these open flames from whence did grow, / As hatefull Ills as euer age could show. 1628, [Francis Hubert], The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second, King of England Together with the Downefall of the Two Vnfortunate Fauorits, Gauestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Poëm., London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Roger Michell, page 103:
   • The thoughts of men are the productors of all iniquity, the common parents of all prophaness. 1655, John Bisco, The Grand Triall of True Conversion. Or, Sanctifying Grace Appearing and Acting First and Chiefly in the Thoughts.: A Treatise Wherein These Two Mysteries Are Opened. […], London: […] M.S. for G. Evesden, page 63:
   • […]with i = 1,2 the patch index, u the primary productors, v the herbivores, w the predators, a the primary productor growth rate, bᵢ the natural mortality of the herbivores, c is the mortality rate of the predators, a₁ and a₂ the strength of the interactions between primary productors and herbivores, and between herbivores and predators, respectively. 2003, Bernard Cazelles, Lewi Stone, Gérard Boudjema, “Phase Synchrony induced by Environmental Perturbations in Chaotic Populations”, in Vincenzo Capasso, editor, Mathematical Modelling & Computing in Biology and Medicine: 5th ESMTB Conference 2002, page 263:
   • For the firſt then I offer this Argument, That if thoſe Impoſitions we lay upon Foreign Commodities, do not leſſen their Importation, Expence, or Demand here, their Prices alſo Advancing proportionably, then the Impoſition doth not affect the Productors, but the Expenders: But we find that those Merchandizes Imported, are not leſſened in their Importation, Expence, or Demand, and have not failed to reach a proportionable Advance; therefore ’tis plain, that ſuch Impositions lie wholly on the Expenders, and do not affect the Productors. 1695, a Merchant, A Discourse of the Duties on Merchandize, More Particularly That on Sugars, Occasionally Offer’d, in Answer to a Pamphlet, Intituled, The Groans of the Plantations, &c. […], London, page 22:
   • Senator Cain. You are just going further than the President in that every phase of human endeavor where a particular need cannot be filled, that is, if the private productors do not volunteer, you think the Government should undertake that function? 1949, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Eighty-First Congress, First Session on S. 138, S. 685, S. 686, S. 709, S. 712, S. 724, and S. 757, Bills Pertaining to General House Legislation, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 588:
   • Non-invasive isolates were stable biofilm productors. There was no correlation between adherence and biofilm production among invasive isolates. Invasive isolates were also unstable biofilm productors. 2016, Aleksandra Šmitran, Ina Gajić, LJiljana Božić, Lazar Ranin, “Adherence and Biofilm Production of Streptococcus pyogenes”, in Dharumadurai Dhanasekaran, Nooruddin Thajuddin, editors, Microbial Biofilms: Importance and Applications, InTech, →ISBN, page 63:
   • The propodite productors in Penaeus are homologous with the propodite productor in Astacus, Pandalus, and Callinectes. 1959, Joseph H. Young, Morphology of the White Shrimp Penaeus setiferus (Linnaeus 1758) (Fishery Bulletin), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 80:
   • This work is used in biosynthesis and somehow transforms the productors; from these, organic matter is transferred to respiratory systems (both in autotrophic or eterotrophic organisms). 1994, Annali di botanica, page 69:
   • Apart from meals, it is a destroyer of arteries and a productor of sclerosis of the connective tissues throughout the body. 1903, Proceedings of the Annual Sessions of the National Fraternal Congress, page 174:
   • This somewhat paradoxical circumstance—and all the farmers expenses were shown to be strictly analogous, was fully accounted for by the taxes on the articles consumed by all workmen and labourers from the mines to the farm-yard; including, of necessity, the productors of the tools which their workmen employ. 1836 January 1, “Romford Agricultural Association”, in The Essex Standard; and Colchester, Chelmsford, Maldon, Harwich Manningtree, Witham, Halsted, Braintree, Romford, Sudbury, Hedingham, Coggeshall, Bishop’s-Stortford, Dunmow, Saffron-Walden, Southend, and General County Advertiser, number 261, Colchester: John Taylor, Jun.; Chelmsford: Henry Thomas Biddell:

Forms

Relateds

productress · productrix

Synonyms

producer