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verb

Produce v. t. (past & past part. produced; pres. part. producing)

1.

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court. "Produce your cause, saith the Lord." "Your parents did not produce you much into the world."

2.

To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain. "This soil produces all sorts of palm trees." "(They) produce prodigious births of body or mind." "The greatest jurist his country had produced."

3.

To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.

4.

To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.

5.

To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.

6.

To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.

7.

(Geom.) To extend; applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.

Produce v. i. To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.

noun

Produce n. That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors; hence, specifically, Agricultural products.

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"Produce" Quotes from Famous Books

... his argument was not exactly in line with the impression he wished to produce; in fact, it was only a weak repetition of what he had begun the argument with, but somehow, like Elizabeth, that was the main fact in the case which absorbed his attention. He was dissatisfied with it, but could ...

— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger

... of material triumphs, whether for the one or for the other, is worse than idle, unless the men of the two countries shall remain, or shall become, greater than the mere things that they produce, and shall know how to regard those things simply as tools and materials for the attainments of the highest purposes of their being. Ascending, then, from the ground-floor of material industry toward the regions in which these purposes are to be wrought out, it is for each nation to consider how ...

— Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists • James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, William Ewart Gladstone, John Henry Newman and Leslie Steph

... temperature between 60 deg. and 100 deg. relaxes the muscles of the stomach and is apt to produce nausea, especially if the effect of bulk be added to that of temperature. Lukewarm water seems to excite an upward peristalsis of the intestines and ...

— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

... expressly to produce the state of feeling which marked that disastrous day, the 20th of June, 1792. It frequently happens that nations, like individuals, rush wildly upon the very dangers they apprehend, and select such courses ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... distiller is one like the above, but larger, and having a small donkey engine and circulating pump attached thereto. As a rule these distillers are vertical, but larger apparatus are arranged horizontally. To give our readers some general idea of size, weight, and produce of water, we may say that a plain cylindrical distiller, mounted on a square filter case, measuring 3 ft. 9 in. high, weighing 41/2 cwt., will distill twelve gallons per hour. A larger size, measuring 6 ft. 2 in. ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various

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