Produce /(?)/

Pro·duce

Produce

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Produced; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
    — Isa. xli. 21.
    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.
    — Sandys.
    [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. To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle. (Geom.)

Produce

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

Produce

n.
  1. That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors