What does "produce" mean?
Produce: Your parents did not produce you much into the world. Swift.
Additional senses
- 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. Sandys. [They] produce prodigious births of body or mind. Milton. The greatest jurist his country had produced. Macaulay.
- 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. Sir T. Browne.
- 7.(Geom.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.
- 8.To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.
- 9.That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors; hence, specifically, agricultural products.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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