Produce

Quick meaning: Produce is a verb meaning (transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.

Meaning

(transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To make or yield something.
2. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
3. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
4. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
5. (music) To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
6. That which is produced.
7. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.

Example Sentences

We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.

Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.

He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.

Besides, some of the rejected dimuons were produced in collisions downstream of the target region (in the beam dump or in the hadron absorber, for instance).

Word Forms

• produces
• producing
• produced

Synonyms for produce

Depending on context, synonyms include make, generate, yield, create, cause, contrive.

Antonyms for produce

Common opposites include destroy, ruin.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include make, create, develop, raise, acquire, get.

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