[
US
/ˈpɹoʊdus, pɹəˈdus/
]
VERB
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bring forth or yield
The tree would not produce fruit -
create or manufacture a man-made product
We produce more cars than we can sell
The company has been making toys for two centuries -
bring onto the market or release
bring out a book
produce a movie
produce a new play -
come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
I got funny spots all over my body
The patient developed abdominal pains
Well-developed breasts
He grew a beard -
bring out for display
The accused brought forth a letter in court that he claims exonerates him
The proud father produced many pictures of his baby -
cause to happen, occur or exist
These chemicals produce a noxious vapor
the new President must bring about a change in the health care system
This procedure produces a curious effect
The new law gave rise to many complaints -
cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
They produce good ham in Parma
We raise hogs here
The Bordeaux region produces great red wines
We grow wheat here
NOUN
- fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market
How To Use produce In A Sentence
- By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
- Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
- Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ... Making Light: Open thread 136
- Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's A Winner of the Victoria Cross
- He looked a bit worried when I sat down at the table and produced a bunch of inhalers, some pills, a bottle of cough syrup and some throat lozenges and proceeded to stuff them all into my mouth…
- Apart from paintings he produced a good deal of graphic work, including numerous book illustrations in lithograph and woodcut.
- Stoke's summer signing from Wolves could only produce a tame shot that went into the ground. The Sun
- While the alpine end of the sport needs only cold weather to produce skiable terrain, cross-country must have snow.
- Acrylamide is produced during cooking, particularly high-temperature processes such as frying and roasting. Times, Sunday Times
- Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives