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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishproduce, fromLatinprōdūcō(“to lead forth”), fromprō-(“forth, forward”) +dūcō(“to lead, bring”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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produce (third-person singular simple presentproduces,present participleproducing,simple past and past participleproduced)

  1. (transitive) Tobring forth, toyield,make,manufacture, orotherwisegenerate.
    Synonyms:make,generate,yield,create;see alsoThesaurus:create
    Antonyms:destroy,ruin
    • 1851,Thomas Babington Macaulay,The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London:Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,→OCLC:
      [chapter XIII,page 264:][…] the greatest jurist that his country hadproduced.[…] [chapter XVI,page 644:] At Rome the news from Irelandproduced a sensation of a very different kind.
    • 1999, Steven O. Shattuck,Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification‎[1], volume 3, CSIRO Publishing, page72:
      Many of these caterpillars have special glands thatproduce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.
    • 2000, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, quoting Jane McGary,Environment: Australia and New Zealand‎[2], quoted inRoutledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension, page567:
      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 toproduce the Australian National Heritage Charter.
    • 2006, Office of the United States Trade Representative,National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: 2006‎[3], page29:
      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 toproduce them.
    • 2006 November 21, Kenya National Assembly,Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): Parliamentary Debates‎[4], page3805:
      We discovered that theyproduce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.
    • 2008,Primary Australian History: Book F‎[5], R.I.C. Publications, page43:
      He had wanted toproduce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.
    • 2010, Carlos Laurenço, Hermine K. Wöhri, edited by Helmut Satz, Sourav Sarkar, and Bikash Sinha,The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures‎[6], Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 785,Measuring DimuonsProduced in Proton-Nucleus Collisions in the NA60 Experiment at the SPS, page280:
      Besides, some of the rejected dimuons wereproduced in collisions downstream of the target region (in the beam dump or in the hadron absorber, for instance).
  2. (intransitive) To make or yield something.
    • 1968, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business,Hearings, page550:
      Now it is also my understanding, I believe I am correct in this, that either one or two other manufacturers did notproduce this year, which also created a certain shortage.
  3. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
    Synonyms:present,offer
    • 1810,Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings, volume 8:
      It was necessary for the prisoner toproduce a witness to prove his innocency.
    • 1961 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, inTrains Illustrated, page635:
      The bottom of the barrel was scraped on August 22 when Shrewsbury had toproduce Taunton2-6-0 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.
    • 2006, Tom Smart, Lee Benson,In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation‎[7], page262:
      LDS securityproduced 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.
    • 2007, Transit Cooperative Research Program,TRCP Report 86: Public Transportation Passenger Security Inspections: A Guide for Policy Decision Makers‎[8], page22:
      The plaintiff alleges that he was unlawfully detained at the airport by state troopers and threatened with arrest unless heproduced identification and his travel documents.
  4. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
    • 1982 January 30, “Imported Producers Spread Early Sound to Global Markets”, inBillboard‎[9], pageM-16:
      David Tickle flew in to Melbourne toproduce 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.
    • 1989 February 12, Jim Fauntleroy, Ron Romanovsky, “'Music Is My Way Of Activism'”, inGay Community News, volume16, number30, page10:
      I was just talking with someone in Bowling Green, Ohio who mightproduce us.
    • 2001, Donald Bogle,Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films‎[10], page56:
      In 1940, he co-wrote the script forBroken Strings, an independentlyproduced film in which he starred as a concert violinist.
    • 2011, Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa,The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012‎[11], page570:
      This beautifullyproduced film was introduced in 2003.
  5. (mathematics) Toextend anarea, orlengthen aline.
    toproduce a side of a triangle
  6. (obsolete) To draw out; toextend; tolengthen orprolong.
    • 1642,Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, inReligio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published1656,→OCLC,page90:
      And truely there goes a great deale of providence toproduce a mans life unto threeſcore;[…]
  7. (music) Toalter usingtechnology, as opposed to simply performing.
    highlyproduced sound
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Translations
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to make or manufacture
to make available to
to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)
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Etymology 2

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From the verb.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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produce (uncountable)

Grocery storeproduce aisle.
  1. That which is produced.
    Synonyms:output,proceeds,product,yield
  3. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.
    • 1852, F. Lancelott,Australia As It Is: Its Settlements, Farms and Gold Fields‎[12], page151:
      All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yardproduce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.
    • 1861, William Westgarth,Australia: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition‎[13], page54:
      Taking a retrospect, then, of fourteen years preceding 1860, and making two periods of seven years each, the value of the exports of theproduce or manufactures of this country to Australia has been, for the annual average of the first seven years, 1846-52, 2½ millions sterling; while for the second period, 1856-59, the annual average has been 11 millions.
    • 1999, Bruce Brown, Malcolm McKinnon,New Zealand in World Affairs, 1972-1990‎[14], page291:
      While it is true that New Zealand′s economic stake in the region [of Oceania] remained relatively small when compared with the major markets for New Zealandproduce in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe, it nevertheless remained the region through which trade must pass on its way to these larger markets.
    • 2008, Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings,Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices‎[15], page230:
      A farm supervisor is employed to coordinate the planting and harvesting ofproduce by volunteers.
  4. Offspring.
    • 1865,The Turf and the Racehorse:
      With regard to the mare that has proved herself of the first class during her racing career, let us contrast the probable success of herproduce[…]
  5. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.
Usage notes
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Frequently used in the collocationproduce aisle, since c. 1960, specifically in the sense “fruits and vegetables”.[1]

Hypernyms
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Translations
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that which is produced
harvested agricultural goods collectively
offspring—seeoffspring

References

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  1. ^Why do you call it “the produce aisle”?

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Galician

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Verb

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produce

  1. inflection ofproducir:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative

Interlingua

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Verb

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produce

  1. present ofproducer
  2. imperative ofproducer

Italian

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Verb

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produce

  1. third-personsingularpresentindicative ofprodurre

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Latin

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Verb

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prōdūce

  1. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative ofprōdūcō

Noun

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prōduce

  1. ablativesingular ofprōdux

Romanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinprōdūcere,Frenchproduire.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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a produce (third-person singular presentproduce,past participleprodus,third-person subjunctiveproducă) 3rd conjugation

  1. (transitive) toproduce

Conjugation

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    conjugation ofproduce (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
infinitiveaproduce
gerundproducând
past participleprodus
numbersingularplural
person1st person2nd person3rd person1st person2nd person3rd person
indicativeeutuel/eanoivoiei/ele
presentproducproduciproduceproducemproducețiproduc
imperfectproduceamproduceaiproduceaproduceamproduceațiproduceau
simple perfectproduseiproduseșiproduseproduserămproduserățiproduseră
pluperfectprodusesemproduseseșiproduseseproduseserămproduseserățiproduseseră
subjunctiveeutuel/eanoivoiei/ele
presentsăproducsăproducisăproducăsăproducemsăproducețisăproducă
imperative—tu——voi—
affirmativeproduproduceți
negativenuproducenuproduceți

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Spanish

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Verb

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produce

  1. inflection ofproducir:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative
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