produce

English

Etymology

From Latin produco (“I lead forth or forward, bring forward, draw or strech out, extend, prolong, conduct, etc., bring forth, bear, etc.”), from pro (“forth, forward”) + duco (“I lead, bring.”)

Pronunciation

• (RP) prədyo͞os', IPA: /prəˈdjuːs/, SAMPA: pr@"dju:s
• (US) prədo͞os', IPA: /prəˈdus/, SAMPA: pr@"du:s

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Verb

produce (third-person singular simple present produces, present participle producing, simple past and past participle produced)

1. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture.

   The factory will produce 10,000 lawn chairs.

   This machine produces millkshakes.

2. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.

   By 2008, travellers must produce their passport when crossing from Canada to the USA.

3. (transitive) (media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.

   Spielberg produced that movie.

4. (mathematics) To extend an area, or to lengthen a line

Derived terms

• producer

Related terms

• product
• production

Translations

to make or manufacture

Arabic: أنتج (ar) ('ántaja) Chinese: Mandarin: 制造 (zh) (zhìzào), 生產 (zh), 生产 (zh) (shēngchǎn) Croatian: proìzvesti (hr) Dutch: produceren (nl), maken (nl) Esperanto: produkti (eo) Finnish: tuottaa (fi), valmistaa (fi), tehdä (fi) French: produire (fr) Galician: producir (gl), xerar (gl) German: produzieren (de), herstellen (de) Hungarian: gyárt (hu) Interlingua: producer (ia) Italian: produrre (it) Japanese: 生産する (ja) (せいさんする, seisan-surú) Khmer: ផលិត (km) (phor lit) Korean: 만들다 (ko) (mandeulda)

Latvian: ražot (lv), taisīt;  (lv) Lithuanian: gaminti (lt) Lojban: zbasu (jbo), cupra (jbo) Marathi: उतप।दन Polish: wytwarzać (pl), produkować (pl) Portuguese: produzir (pt) Romanian: produce (ro), face (ro) Russian: производить (ru) (proizvodít’) impf., произвести (ru) (proizvestí) pf. Spanish: producir (es) Swedish: producera (sv) Telugu: ఉత్పత్తి చేయు (utpatti chaeyu), తయారు చేయు (tayaaru chaeyu) Turkish: üretmek (tr) Zazaki: pêrotene

to make available to

Bulgarian: предоставям (bg) Dutch: voorleggen, beschikbaar stellen Finnish: esittää (fi)

Hungarian: bemutat (hu) Italian: fornire (it) Lojban: jarco (jbo)

to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)

Croatian: producírati (hr) Dutch: produceren (nl), maken (nl) Finnish: tuottaa (fi) German: produzieren (de) Italian: produrre (it)

Kurdish: ده‌رهێنان Mandarin: 制作 (cmn) (zhìzuò) 监制 (cmn) (jiānzhì) Spanish: realizar (es) Telugu: నిర్మించు (nirminchu)

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Ido: produktar

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: prŏd'yo͞os, IPA: /ˈprɒdjuːs/, SAMPA: /"prQdju:s/
• (US) IPA: /ˈpɹoʊ.dus/

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Noun

produce (uncountable)

1. Items produced.
2. Amount produced.
3. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit.

   This grocery store sells some wonderful fresh produce as well as dried, canned, and frozen fruit and vegetables.

4. Offspring
5. (Australian) Livestock and pet food supplies.

Synonyms

• (items produced): products

Translations

items produced

Dutch: produkt (nl) n. Finnish: tuotanto (fi), tuotteet (fi) pl. German: Produkt (de) n. Italian: prodotto (it)

Lojban: selcupra (jbo), selzbasu (jbo) Scottish Gaelic: toradh (gd) m. Telugu: ఉత్పత్తి (utpatti)

amount produced

Finnish: tuotanto (fi) Italian: prodotto (it)

Scottish Gaelic: toradh (gd) m.

harvested agricultural goods collectively

Dutch: waar (nl) f., waren (nl) f. pl. Finnish: tuotteet (fi) pl. Irish: meas (ga) m. Italian: prodotti (it) pl.

Lojban: stagi (jbo) Portuguese: hortifrutigranjeiros (pt) pl. Scottish Gaelic: toradh (gd) m.

offspring — see offspring

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Spanish: producto

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: support · bit · Indian · #825: produce · drawn · field · street

External links

• produce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• produce in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• produce at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• crouped

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Interlingua

Verb

produce

1. present of producer
2. imperative of producer

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Italian

Verb

produce

1. third-person singular indicative present of produrre

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Latin

Verb

prōdūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of prōdūcō

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin prōdūcere, present active infinitive of prōdūcō.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [proˈdu.tʃe]

Verb

a produce 3rd conj.

1. (transitive) to produce

Conjugation

produce (third conjugation)

infinitive			a produce
gerund			producând
past participle			produs
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	produc	produci	produce	producem	produceți	produc
	imperfect	produceam	produceai	producea	produceam	produceați	produceau
	simple perfect	produsei	produseși	produse	produserăm	produserăți	produseră
	pluperfect	produsesem	produseseși	produsese	produseserăm	produseserăți	produseseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să produc	să produci	să producă	să producem	să produceți	să producă
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		produ			produceți
	negative		nu produce			nu produceți

Derived terms

• produs

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Spanish

Verb

produce (infinitive producir)

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of producir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of producir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of producir.