PRODUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does produce mean? 

• PRODUCE (noun)
  The noun PRODUCE has 1 sense:

1. fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market

  Familiarity information: PRODUCE used as a noun is very rare.

• PRODUCE (verb)
  The verb PRODUCE has 7 senses:

1. bring forth or yield

2. create or manufacture a man-made product

3. cause to happen, occur or exist

4. bring out for display

5. cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques

6. bring onto the market or release

7. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

  Familiarity information: PRODUCE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRODUCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

garden truck; green goods; green groceries; produce

Hypernyms ("produce" is a kind of...):

food; solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "produce"):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

eater (any green goods that are good to eat)

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Derivation:

produce (cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques)

• PRODUCE (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bring forth or yield

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

bring forth; produce

Context example:

The tree would not produce fruit

Hypernyms (to "produce" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "produce"):

bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have (cause to be born)

sporulate (produce spores)

crank out; grind out (produce in a routine or monotonous manner)

manufacture (produce naturally)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

producer (something that produces)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Create or manufacture a man-made product

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

create; make; produce

Context example:

The company has been making toys for two centuries

Verb group:

create; make (create by artistic means)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "produce"):

laminate (create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material)

overproduce (produce in excess)

bootleg (produce or distribute illegally)

generate (produce (energy))

generate; give; render; return; yield (give or supply)

extrude; squeeze out (form or shape by forcing through an opening)

smelt (extract (metals) by heating)

reproduce (make a copy or equivalent of)

preassemble; prefabricate (to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings)

fudge together; throw together (produce shoddily, without much attention to detail)

print; publish (put into print)

confect (make or construct)

proof (make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset)

burn; cut (create by duplicating data)

elaborate (produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product)

breed (cause to procreate (animals))

make over; redo; refashion; remake (make new)

prefabricate (produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally)

underproduce (produce below capacity or demand)

output (to create or manufacture a specific amount)

pulsate; pulse (produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses)

custom-make; customise; customize; tailor-make (make to specifications)

dummy; dummy up (make a dummy of)

turn out (produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery)

machine (make by machinery)

churn out (produce something at a fast rate)

put out (put out considerable effort)

clap together; clap up; slap together (make hastily and carelessly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue produce the movie

Derivation:

producer (someone who manufactures something)

product (commodities offered for sale)

product (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to happen, occur or exist

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

bring about; give rise; produce

Context example:

the new President must bring about a change in the health care system

Hypernyms (to "produce" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "produce"):

induce; induct (produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes)

lead; leave; result (produce as a result or residue)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

product (a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Bring out for display

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

bring forth; produce

Context example:

The accused brought forth a letter in court that he claims exonerates him

Hypernyms (to "produce" is one way to...):

display; exhibit; expose (to show, make visible or apparent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "produce"):

turn on (produce suddenly or automatically)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

production ((law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

farm; grow; produce; raise

Context example:

We raise hogs here

Hypernyms (to "produce" is one way to...):

cultivate (foster the growth of)

Domain category:

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "produce"):

keep (raise)

overproduce (produce in excess; produce more than needed or wanted)

carry (bear (a crop))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They produce rye in the field

Derivation:

produce (fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Bring onto the market or release

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

bring on; bring out; produce

Context example:

produce a new play

Cause:

appear (come into sight or view)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "produce"):

offer (produce or introduce on the stage)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

producer (someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work))

production (the act or process of producing something)

production (a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

acquire; develop; get; grow; produce

Context example:

Well-developed breasts

Hypernyms (to "produce" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

acquire; develop; evolve (gain through experience)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "produce"):

teethe (grow teeth; cut the baby teeth)

cut (have grow through the gums)

get up; work up (develop)

pupate (develop into a pupa)

pod (produce pods, of plants)

leaf (produce leaves, of plants)

stool; tiller (grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers)

sprout; stock (put forth and grow sprouts or shoots)

spring (develop suddenly)

regrow (grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption)

feather; fledge (grow feathers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Emma was obliged to ask what they had told her, though fearful of its producing Mr. Elton.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When she woke late in the afternoon, Lucy's first movement was to feel in her breast, and, to my surprise, produced the paper which Van Helsing had given me to read.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

What this additional fortnight was to produce to her beyond the pleasure of sometimes seeing Henry Tilney made but a small part of Catherine's speculation.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Hannah 'felt in her bones' that it was going to be an unusually fine day, and she proved herself a true prophetess, for everybody and everything seemed bound to produce a grand success.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I exclude extremes, of course; and a very close resemblance in all those points would be the likeliest way to produce an extreme.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The next day produced little or no alteration in the state of the patient; she certainly was not better, and, except that there was no amendment, did not appear worse.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Tests that produce pictures of areas inside the body.

(Medical Imaging, NCI Dictionary)

How strange, I thought, that the same cause should produce such opposite effects!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Insulin is a hormone your body produces to help you turn sugar from food into energy for your body.

(Metabolic Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

I should certainly have produced it, but that I met the woman's look, and saw her very slightly shake her head, and form “No!” with her lips.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)