Definition: produce

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

produce
     n : fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market [syn: green
         goods, green groceries, garden truck]
     v 1: bring forth or yield: "The tree would not produce fruit"
          [syn: bring forth]
     2: create or manufacture a man-made product: "We produce more
        cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys
        for two centuries" [syn: make, create]
     3: cause to occur or exist: "This procedure produces a curious
        effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints";
        "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor" [syn: bring
        about, give rise]
     4: bring out for display: "The proud father produced many
        pictures of his baby"; "The accused brought forth a letter
        in court that he claims exonerates him" [syn: bring forth]
     5: bring onto the market or release, as of an intellectual
        creation: "produce a movie"; "bring out a book"; "produce
        a new play" [syn: bring on, bring out]
     6: cultivate by growing; often involves improvements by means
        of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces
        great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We
        grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: grow, raise,
         farm]
     7: come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and
        attributes); "He grew a beard"; The patient developed
        abdominal pains"; I got funny spots all over my body";
        "Well-developed breasts" [syn: grow, develop, get, acquire]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Produce \Pro*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Produced; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Producing.] [L. producere, productum, to bring
   forward, beget, produce; pro forward, forth + ducere to lead.
   See Duke.]
   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.                                --Swift.

   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. 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. --Sir T. Browne.

   7. (Geom.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or
      solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.

Produce \Pro*duce"\, v. i.
   To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects,
   consequences, or results.

Produce \Prod"uce\ (?; 277), n.
   That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product;
   yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural
   labors; hence, specifically, agricultural products.