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PRODUCE

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market

Synonyms:

garden truck; green goods; green groceries; produce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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"):

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

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)

Derivation:

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

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

Well-developed breasts

Synonyms:

acquire; develop; get; grow; produce

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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"):

cut (have grow through the gums)

get up; work up (develop)

pupate (develop into a pupa)

teethe (grow teeth; cut the baby teeth)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Create or manufacture a man-made product

Example:

The company has been making toys for two centuries

Synonyms:

create; make; produce

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Verb group:

create; make (create by artistic means)

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

put out (put out considerable effort)

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

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)

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)

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

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)

overproduce (produce in excess)

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

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:

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

Example:

We raise hogs here

Synonyms:

farm; grow; produce; raise

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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 4

Meaning:

Bring forth or yield

Example:

The tree would not produce fruit

Synonyms:

bring forth; produce

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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 5

Meaning:

Cause to happen, occur or exist

Example:

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

Synonyms:

bring about; give rise; produce

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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 6

Meaning:

Bring out for display

Example:

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

Synonyms:

bring forth; produce

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

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 7

Meaning:

Bring onto the market or release

Example:

produce a new play

Synonyms:

bring on; bring out; produce

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

There are two mesothoriums produced in thorium decay.

(Mesothorium, NCI Thesaurus)

A sebaceous gland in the eyelid that produces a specific type of sebum.

(Meibomian Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

Yet a bad effect was produced.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Such opposition, as these feelings produced, was more than Anne could combat.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This bacteria hydrolyzes esculin, produces acid from xylose and is urease and catalase negative.

(Actinomyces israelii, NCI Thesaurus)

Different members of this gene family may produce different actin cytoskeletal architectures.

(Actin Branching Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Another entreaty that she would be serious, however, produced the desired effect; and she soon satisfied Jane by her solemn assurances of attachment.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Silent or hormonally non-functioning ACTH producing adenomas have also been described.

(ACTH-Producing Pituitary Gland Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

I cannot even render faithfully the effect it produced on me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The effect produced upon him was one of great sadness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)