produce

Definitions

1. 1.Your parents did not produce you much into the world. Swift.
2. 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. 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. 4.To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.
5. 5.To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.
6. 6.To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore. Sir T. Browne.
7. 7.(Geom.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.
8. 8.To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.
9. 9.That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors; hence, specifically, agricultural products.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is your parents did not produce you much into the world. Swift called?
• What is to cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery called?
• What is to give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares called?
• What is to yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit called?
• What is to draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore. Sir T. Browne called?
• What is to extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle called?
• What is to yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results called?
• What is that which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors; hence, specifically, agricultural products called?