produce

CEFRA2

/pɹəˈd͡ʒuːs/

verb · noun

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In plain English

01
verb
To make, grow, or create something.
02
noun
Fresh fruit and vegetables sold as food.

Examples

Each way of sleeping is likely to produce a different kind of adult.
The market is full of farm produce.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/ˈpɹoʊ.dus/
/pɹəˈdjuːs/

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verb

Extra meanings

To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
To make or yield something.
To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.

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In context

Bad seed must produce bad corn.
to produce a side of a triangle
highly produced sound

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[chapter XIII, page 264:] […] the greatest jurist that his country had produced. […] [chapter XVI, page 644:] At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind.
1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC
Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.
1999, Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification, volume 3, CSIRO Publishing, page 72
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 to produce the Australian National Heritage Charter.
2000, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, quoting Jane McGary, Environment: Australia and New Zealand, quoted in Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension, page 567
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 to produce them.
2006, Office of the United States Trade Representative, National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: 2006, page 29
We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.
2006 November 21, Kenya National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): Parliamentary Debates, page 3805

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Origin

verb

From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”).

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verb

The factory can blank over a thousand cars each day using its new assembly line.