producen.
/ˈprɒdjuːs/, /ˈprɒdʒuːs/, U.S. /ˈprɑˌdus/, /ˈproʊˌdus/ 1. The action or fact of producing; production of something specified. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production
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outbearinga1425
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procreation1578
generating1579
edition1605
producement1613
elaboration1617
flowering1634
pullulation1641
factory1664
development1794
output1841
output1887
1562 Linlithgow Sheriff Court 18 Aug. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) The quhilk day William..tuik instrument vpon the produce of the said retour in iugement.
1642 D. Lakin Miraculous Cure of Prusian Swallow-knife i. 101 May not there be lodged in our bodies a matter fitted for the produce of that metall, which ye native heate deficient in some power, may be the cause that it doth not appeare in its making.
1782 E. Hargrove Hist. Knaresbrough (ed. 3) 6 This place is remarkable for the produce of a delicious apple.
1845 W. Phillips Let. 22 Apr. in F. Douglass Narr. Life Frederick Douglass (1995) Pref. p. xv A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar.
1966 P. J. Arnold in Physical Educ. Yearbk. 17 The promise of a still further extension of the use of automation in the produce of goods is likely to reduce the necessity for physical powers still more.
1971 H. Kamen Iron Cent. ii. vi. 221 The dedication of the manorial economy to the produce of grain for a (usually external) market.
2. The amount produced, yielded, or derived; the proceeds; the return, yield.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > amount produced or manufactured
produce1650
supply1744
make1749
output1841
turn1870
production1878
turn-out1879
throughput1884
run1926
the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product > produce, yield, or return
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production1878
1650 C. D. Let. 26 Sept. in S. Hartlib Legacy (1655) 104 The produce of this way will be rarely under ten quarters, not rarely sixteen, or twenty, and the same for most Grains.
1680 W. Freeman Let. 6 Sept. (2002) 181 The crop must fall very short if itt makes but 120 hhds., viz. 60 to my share, which if there be but 40 more, I shal receive noe more, which wil be a very inconsiderable produce.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 78 They sow it with Barly, allowing 3 Bushels of Seed to an Acre: Its common produce is 30 Bushel.
1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 20. ⁋4 This Tax has already been so often tried, that we know the exact Produce of it.
1774 N.-Y. Gaz. & Weekly Mercury 14 Mar. 4/2 (advt.) He is determined not to contract for a Salary, but a Share in the Produce of the Works.
1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 241 Not only the interest, but the produce, of the real and personal estate, was to be applied by such trustees.
1831 Examiner 141/1 They had sold their shoes,..and were getting lushy with the produce.
1871 J. S. Phillips Explorer's Compan. 299 A weight of 400 grains [in assaying ores]..is divided into hundredths and again into eighths of one unit of such percentages to represent the market ‘produce’.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 647/1 Despite bad seasons..cultivation extended, and in 1895 the vineyards covered 300,000 acres, the produce being 88,000,000 gallons.
1963 R. G. Wesson Soviet Communes viii. 182 In Siberian communes it was found that those without machinery had a produce of 193 rubles per worker; those with one tractor or more, 402 rubles.
3.
a. More specifically: a thing (or things collectively) produced as a natural growth or as a result of action or effort; product, fruit. Also figurative. Now rare except as merged with 4.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product
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fodmea1325
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geniture?1440
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nursling1591
bantling1593
excrement1600
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issuea1616
procedure1626
creature1651
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parturition1659
outbirth1663
sequel1669
brat1678
operation1774
outgoing1850
fruitling1876
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 112 And no man will doubt such payment, that sees a visible Cargo upon the Iland of 10200 l. and the produce of the Plantation to boot.
1688 G. Burnet Some Lett. Table of Contents sig. A8 The Sloth and Lasiness of the Neapolitans, hinders their making those advantages of the produce of the Country which they might.
1700 J. Dryden To J. Driden in Fables 98 You hoard not Health, for your own private Use; But on the Publick spend the rich Produce.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 33 Two Pieces of dry Flesh and some Corn, such as is the Produce of their Country.
1844 Times 22 Feb. 5/2 This elaborate piece of workmanship is the produce of the factory of Mr. Carse.
1850 E. C. Gaskell Well of Pen-Morfa i After her child was born, she..made a scanty living by the produce of her bees.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 253 A bowl of dried rose leaves, the only produce of the garden.
1960 A. Koestler Lotus & Robot 278 The produce of the cotton mills is cheaper than homespun khadi.
1995 Mideast Mirror (Nexis) 29 Aug. It currently gets about the same amount from Iraq, half the value of which it pays for in the form of agricultural and industrial produce.
b. Result, effect; the product or consequence of something.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun]
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worka1382
workinga1382
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product1651
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eventuation1813
sequent1838
sequence1853
causatum1879
sequela1883
ramification1925
1698 V. Alsop Vindic. Faithful Rebuke v. 82 But to affirm that this Punishment was the Produce of that Sin, is more than he can prove, and therefore should have been more than he had asserted.
1721 W. Claggett Looking-glass for Elder Clarke 16 Is not this pernicious Consequence, the natural Produce of your Reasonings?
1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. x. 95 If it were..possible..that every free Act of Choice were the Produce or the Effect of a free Act of Choice; yet even then..no one Act of Choice would be free, but every one necessary.
1792 Lady Wallace Let. to Capt. W. Wallace (ed. 2) 131 Bigotry, the natural produce of ignorance.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 498 It was the produce of an honest heart, a clear conscience, and a manly mind.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 230 Such the days of faith, And such their produce to encourage mine!
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 135 He felt that they..resented an exactitude which was the produce of a leisure not within their reach.
1993 M. Marmé in L. C. Johnson Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China i. 39 Insofar as Suzhou's rise from prominence to eminence was the work of the state, it was the produce of ad hoc decisions taken to exploit existing opportunities for imperial advantage.
c. Offspring, progeny.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring
seedOE
offspringOE
begottena1325
birtha1325
issuea1325
burgeoninga1340
fruit of the loinsa1340
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progeniturec1487
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increase1552
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spawn1590
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teeming1599
pullulation1641
prolifications1646
educt1677
produce1823
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang (at cited word) The young of any given horse or mare is its produce, whether colts or fillies; but, in a wider sense of the word, would imply any of that get, however old.
1838 W. Yarrell Let. Nov. in C. Darwin Corr. (1986) II. 141 I then obtained a brown male, killed all the white males, and left him with 4 wives; the produce was white, black, brown and fawn colour'd.
1845 W. Youatt Dog (1858) iv. 104 The Artois dog..is a produce of the shock-dog and the pug.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. vii. 502 Comte de Saxe..was..the produce of the fair Aurora von Königsmark.
1909 Times 22 Nov. 18/2 Every autumn a number of yearlings from Sledmere are sent to the Doncaster sales; particular interest attaches to them, as they are the produce of the best sires and dams in the country.
2003 A. Hunter Amer. Classic Pedigrees viii. 280 She was the produce of two inbred parents who, in a further oddity, were both inbred to mares rather than stallions.
4. Agricultural and natural products collectively, as opposed to manufactured goods. Also in raw produce. Now the principal sense.
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the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farm produce
yearc1384
yieldingc1405
yieldc1440
birtha1500
newinga1549
stock and teind1574
yieldance1641
produce1725
produit net1774
cropa1825
farm store1848
out-take1866
agriproduct1969
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > [noun]
raw material1612
crudity1626
raw produce1832
stock1873
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. Introd. 6 The..British product..whether we mean its produce as the growth of the country, or its manufactures, as the labour of her people.
1738 Georgia Colonial. Rec. III. 422 None..have been able to raise sufficient Produce to maintain their Families in Bread-kind only.
1795 H. T. Colebrooke Remarks Husbandry & Commerce Bengal v. 98 Unless his neighbours are desirous of cultivating the article for which the buildings are made, and of selling him the raw produce, his works will be idle.
1821 Deb. Congr. U.S. 28 Dec. (1855) I. 46 When a farmer obtains his judgement against this very merchant, for the sale of his produce, the force of his execution may be arrested for three months.
1832 H. Martineau Demerara ii. 15 The cry for higher bounties on West India produce.
1865 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 84 The payments..tempted the farmers to sell to them their produce.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 808/1 The Spaniards..held that this trade should be confined to an exchange of colonial raw produce for home manufactures.
1989 Which? Jan. 5/3 It will have to be indicated clearly to the consumer when fresh produce contains residues of post-harvest treatments.
2003 Daily Tel. 19 Nov. 11/5 Asda and Tesco have both claimed their policy is to source British produce wherever possible.
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1904 Col. C. F. Hadden Let. 5 July (O.E.D. Archive) A gun carriage brought to produce is broken up, and steel, brass, etc., separated, and disposed of as so much metal.
Compounds
General attributive (chiefly in sense 4), as produce broker, produce business, produce market, produce merchant, produce trade, etc.
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1822 Times 17 June 3/1 (advt.) Its retired and at the same time central situation..may suit a ship and insurance or a produce broker, being in the immediate line of the Exchange and Custom-house.
1826 Times 26 Apr. 3/2 The produce market in Mincing-lane.
1841 in C. Cist Cincinnati in 1841 (advt.) Produce, Forwarding, and Commission Merchants.
1872 1st Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1871–2 161 B. F. Rugg, who was then engaged in the produce trade,..undertook to carry out a plan for controlling the Boston butter market.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Oct. 6/2 Instead of the £500 being paid money down, it should be £500 of tithe money, or rather £500 of produce money, so that it should represent very much the same quantity of stuff.
1899 Scribner's Mag. 25 55/2 A Missourian, in the produce business.
1909 Daily Chron. 19 May 3/3 An industrious hard-working young man, starting as a produce dealer in a small way in the disturbed epoch of the Civil War, drifts into the oil trade.
1959 Times 12 Mar. 19/6 Our produce trade made a useful contribution to our revenue.
1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 123 Produce hauler, a trucker who transports fruits, vegetables and other produce.
1991 J. Garreau Edge City i. 22 The produce market features everything from ohba leaves to pears flown in from Japan.
2004 News Herald (Port Clinton, Ohio) (Nexis) 3 June 3 a Strawberries will be in season and found at area fruit farms and produce stores until mid-July.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
producev.
/prəˈdjuːs/, /prəˈdʒuːs/, U.S. /prəˈd(j)us/, /proʊˈd(j)us/ 1. † c. transitive. To extend in duration; to prolong, lengthen. Obsolete.† d. transitive. To stretch out in space. Obsolete.
a. transitive. Anatomy, Botany, and Zoology. To extend or develop in a longitudinal direction; usually in passive. Frequently with into.
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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 10v And þai ar produced [?c1425 Paris ladde downe]..fro þe commissurez of laude vn to þe middes of þe bones of þe templez.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 48v Þe bones of þe temples..producen [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. produceþ; ?c1425 Paris leden forth; L. producunt] ane addicioun towarde þe addicioun of þe bone þat is cleped os petrosum.
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. ii. App. 175 The Bottom, is either Reduced towards the Top, as in Ground-Ivy; or Produced upon the Stalk, as in Poplar, Bay, &c.
1736 R. Nesbitt Human Osteogeny ii. 96 At three months the coronide process is visible..but the inside of the bone is not produced higher than the cavities for the dentes molares.
1877 C. Darwin Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised (ed. 2) vi. 169 An insect with the extremity of its abdomen produced into a sharp point alights on the flower.
1881 Nature 11 Aug. 337/1 Each eyebrow is produced into a flexible horn-like prominence.
1966 New Phytologist 65 44 Spore in face view of basically square shape.., but with an apex produced as a short spine.
1997 Invertebr. Biol. 116 41/2 Well-developed gymnocyst produced into tubercles and/or spines proximally.
b. transitive. Geometry. To extend (a line) in length; to continue (a line) beyond the original end points.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [verb (transitive)] > lengthen
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protend?a1475
lengthen1555
extend1569
produce1570
prolong1574
elongate1578
carry1587
run1630
continue1667
to run outa1670
prolongate1671
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > line > linearize [verb (transitive)] > extend
subtend?a1560
produce1570
product1756
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 5v To produce [L. protrahere] a right line finite, straight forth continually.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 27 Parallel Lines..produced infinitely on both sides, do never..concur.
1750 J. Turner Math. Exercises i. 23 It is evident that the Line DE, produced, will pass thro the Extremity F of the Diameter.
1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 290 When one side of a triangle is produced, the outward angle is greater than either of the two inward opposite angles.
1869 J. Tyndall Notes 9 Lect. on Light 16 The reflected rays are here divergent; but on being produced backwards, they intersect at the principal focus behind the mirror.
1935 A. H. G. Palmer & K. S. Snell Mechanics ix. 187 PC produced meets AB at D.
1982 Amer. Math. Monthly 89 597 E is constructed by producing the line C′B′.
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the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > cause to endure, sustain, or prolong
lengOE
drawOE
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lengtha1300
drivec1300
tarryc1320
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dretch1393
conservea1398
to draw (out) in, into, at, or on lengtha1400
prorogue1419
prolongc1425
aroomc1440
prorogate?a1475
protend?a1475
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to draw out1542
sustentate1542
linger1543
defer1546
pertract1548
propagate1548
protract1548
linger1550
lengthen1555
train1556
detract?a1562
to make forth (long, longer)1565
stretch1568
extend1574
extenuate1583
dree1584
wire-draw1598
to spin out1603
trail1604
disabridge1605
produce1605
continuate1611
out-length1617
spin1629
to eke out1641
producta1670
prolongate1671
drawl1694
drag1697
perennate1698
string1867
perennialize1898
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iii. i. 675 Perhaps, our stay will be Beyond our will produc't . View more context for this quotation
1634 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (new ed.) sig. ¶4 v The E silent..serveth onely to produce the Voael precedent.
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §43 There goes a great deal of providence to produce a mans life unto threescore. View more context for this quotation
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1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 243 Hed. O, his legge was too much produc'd. Ana. And his hat was carried skiruily.
2. † c. transitive. To bring into, to, etc., a specified condition; to advance, promote. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To bring forward or out, to present to view or notice; to show or provide (something) for consideration, inspection, or use; to exhibit; spec. to bring (a witness or evidence) before a court of law.
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society > communication > manifestation > offering for inspection or consideration > offer for inspection or consideration [verb (transitive)]
i-taechec888
to lay … beforec1000
showlOE
givec1175
to lay outc1440
produce1459
propose1548
cite1549
product1563
broach1573
offer1583
to hold up1604
to bring in1608
project1611
to bring ona1715
to trot out1838
to bring up1868
muster1904
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or make use of [verb (transitive)] > bring or put into use
travaila1382
to bring inc1384
employ1429
inveigh1547
innovate1548
to put into (also in) practice1553
to lay to1560
induct1615
produce1697
take1732
unlimber1867
phase1949
1459–60 Burgh Court Bk. Newburgh f. 1v Dauid Anderson askyt lawchfulday to produs his wytnas anentis the forwryttyn action.
1499 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1888) XI. 435 To comper..to produce his takkis and rychtes of the kingis landis of Murray gif he ony has.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 667/1 I produce wytnesses, je produys tesmoyngs.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. vi. 16 They also produced to sight and viewe of him certaine harnesses or armours, whereat he also meruailed much.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 230 I..am moreouer sutor, that I may Produce his body to the Market-place. View more context for this quotation
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. v. §5 Joseph Scaliger who first..produced them into the light out of Georgius Syncellus.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 51 Produce the Plough, and yoke the sturdy Steer. View more context for this quotation
1729 in New Jersey Archives XI. 183 Any Person importing Masts into Great Britain, to be intituled to the Bounty or Praemium, must produce a Certificate.
1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 16/1 The books must be produced, as we cannot receive parole evidence of their contents.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 224 So saying, he produced, from the hawking pouch already mentioned, the stiffened hand.
1877 Act 40 & 41 Vict. c. 60 §5 Any person..may, on producing..a copy of his authorisation..enter by day such canal boat.
1898 Times 26 Nov. 5/6 If the Court wished for some further evidence..he would be prepared to produce a witness who had seen and conversed with Mr. Druce on several occasions after the day of his alleged death.
1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies v. 62 He produced from under his coat a gardenia, slightly browned at the edges.
1997 Sunday Times 26 Oct. i. 15/3 The prosecution has produced a string of expert medical witnesses to back up claims that Matthew died of severe head trauma.
2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane x. 228 He produced a photocopy and read from it.
b. transitive. To introduce (frequently with to or into); spec. to bring (a performer) before the public; (reflexive) to come forward; to appear in public. Now rare except as merged with 2d.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > expose to public view [verb (transitive)]
to put forth?c1225
to hit out1579
to set a-sunshining1601
to put forward1611
to hold out1613
expose1623
theatrizea1679
produce1686
parade1765
to bring forward1783
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > introduce
enseam1607
to introduce into the acquaintance of1659
produce1686
run1897
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > perform [verb (transitive)] > bring (performer) before the public
produce1864
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxv. 158 Orpheus was he which produced [Fr. introduict] and celebrated the first sacrifices vnto Liber Pater.
1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. 106 The first that produced them into the Christian World was the Earl of Mirandula.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 214 They had an extraordinary desire to produce me.
1709 J. Swift Project Advancem. Relig. 13 The pert..Demeanor of several young Stagers in Divinity, upon their first producing themselves into the World.
1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) V. 169 Plato..was studious of all occasions of producing him to the public.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 27. ⁋8 Hilarius received me with an appearance of great satisfaction, produced me to all his friends.
1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy vi I wish they had antigallican spirit enough to produce themselves in their own genuine English dress.
1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife I. vi. 71 They [sc. girls] were always ready to sing and to play, but did not take the pains to produce themselves in conversation.
1864 Standard 31 Dec. 6/3 There is a stringent competition going forward amidst musical managers as to who shall produce her [sc. a singer].
1885 Cent. Mag. May 61/1 Olive could see that she produced herself quite as well as one of these gentlemen had foretold the other that she would.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > furtherance > further [verb (transitive)]
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to bring onc1230
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speeda1300
nourishc1300
avaunt1393
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pasture?a1439
advantage?1459
promove1475
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conduce1518
to set forth1528
to set forward(s)1530
to take forth1530
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help1559
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foster1571
shoulder1577
to put forward1579
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foment1596
hearten1598
to put on1604
fomentate1613
succeed1613
expeditea1618
producea1618
maturate1623
cultivate1641
encourage1677
push1693
forward1780
progress1780
admove1839
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. J. Bertaut Parl. Vertues Royall in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Divine Weekes & Workes (1621) 866 Till with advantage gracious Heav'ns produce Their Wished Counsails into act and use.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iii. ii. 100 in Wks. II The Art..Is by the Brotherhood of the Rosie Crosse, Produc'd vnto perfection.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. viii. 233 Trebonius..was wholly a new man and the creature of Caesar's power, who produced him through all the honors of the State, to his late consulship of three months.
d. transitive. To bring (a performance) before the public; to administer the staging of (a play, opera, etc.) or the financial and managerial aspects of (a film, broadcast, etc.); to supervise the making of (a musical recording), esp. by determining the overall sound. Also occasionally intransitive.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > perform [verb (transitive)] > put on a performance
representa1438
present1573
to bring out1818
mount1828
produce1836
stage1924
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (transitive)] > supervise production
produce1897
1836 C. Dickens Let. 25 Aug. (1965) I. 171 A farce in two acts..to be produced at the Saint James's Theatre on the first of October.
1877 Times 12 Mar. 11/1 She..purchased from Mr. Spicer for £100 the sole right of acting and producing the play in question in the United Kingdom.
1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 13 Feb. 170/1 Like all plays under Mr. Barrett's management, ‘The Daughter of Babylon’ is excellently produced.
1912 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures 329 The Hepworth Manufacturing Company..recently has produced several powerful and excellent film-plays.
1923 Radio Times 28 Sept. 23/3 The whole production produced and directed by Mr. R. E. Jeffrey, who has adapted this well-known play for wireless transmission.
1925 Scribner's Mag. July 10/2 The..opera..is being produced at a cost of approximately $75,000.
1937 ‘M. Innes’ Hamlet, Revenge! i. i. 17 I'm producing. And I've built a sort of Elizabethan stage.
1959 Lima (Ohio) News 24 Sept. One of the Lima groups wrote and produced a radio show titled ‘Hi Time’ last year.
1973 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 25 Apr. 14/4 [He] heard the group perform at a prison talent show..and offered to produce the album.
1994 Folk Roots Mar. 19/1 The band's new album, produced at Studio Xippi..is eagerly awaited in the next few months.
2006 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 31 Jan. a1 The work became the poster for ‘Pacific Vibrations’, the 1969 surf film produced by Severson.
3. To bring into being or existence.
a. transitive. gen. To bring (a thing) into existence from its raw materials or elements, or as the result of a process; to give rise to, bring about, effect, cause, make (an action, condition, etc.).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth
doeOE
makelOE
to bring forthc1175
farrow?c1225
childc1350
fodmec1390
raise1402
spring?1440
upbringc1440
breed1526
procreate1546
hatch1549
generate1556
product1577
deprompt1586
produce1587
spire1590
sprout1598
represent1601
effer1606
depromea1652
germinate1796
output1858
c1475 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 299 Lord omnipotent, fader of oure creacyoun, All thing producyng only by volunte.
a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1965) II. 8 For God was eternaly..and of His fre will He maid the waurld and producit all creatur.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vi. 93 The One is the Producer or yeelderfoorth, the Vnderstanding is the thing produced or yeeldedfoorth.
1622 C. Fitzgeffry Elisha 14 Double affection..produceth doubled lamentation.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 155 There are few Crimes that may not be produced by Anger.
1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §94 That Eternal Invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.
1748 D. Hume Ess. (ed. 3) xviii. 193 Art may make a Suit of Clothes. But Nature must produce a Man.
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman iv. 129 To use an apt French turn of expression, she is going to produce a sensation.
1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. (1879) ii. ix. 52 Steam is produced by heating water by coal.
1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. iii. 87 Certain..insects produce a noise by rubbing one of their abdominal rings against another.
1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 136/2 The coal was cut in large blocks..the small coal was..produced by the friction of the blocks.
1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent ii. 14 There were red, coppery gleams..on the broad back of Mr. Verloc's overcoat, where they produced a dull effect of rustiness.
1984 A. Smith Mind iii. vii. 115 Amputations above the right knee produce more phantom limb sensation than corresponding amputations on the left knee.
2005 Windsor (Ont.) Star (Nexis) 3 Dec. b1 There was no way..something so small could produce a sound so rich and melodious.
b. transitive. Of a person, animal, plant, etc.: to give birth to or bear (offspring); to yield (seed, fruit, etc.); to generate by a natural process. Also occasionally intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > by growth or development > grow, sprout, or bear fruit [verb (transitive)] > bring forth, produce, or bear
bearOE
makea1325
showc1330
yielda1400
producea1513
carry1577
hatch1592
throw1738
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)]
kenc825
begeteOE
strenec893
raisec1175
breeda1250
kenec1275
felefolda1300
engendera1325
tiddera1325
multiplyc1350
genderc1384
producea1513
procreatea1525
propagate1535
generate1552
product1577
kind1596
traduce1599
pullulate1602
traduct1604
progenerate1611
store1611
spawna1616
spawna1617
reproduce1650
propage1695
to make a baby1911
the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (transitive)] > develop
producea1513
breed1544
bud1568
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to
bearOE
whelpc1175
kindle?c1225
hatcha1350
yeana1387
calvea1425
producea1513
dam1577
cast1587
rewhelp1605
render1607
store1611
drop1662
warp1738
kit1758
kitten1824
throw1824
cub1864
a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1965) II. 70 Bot it requiris be necessite the operacioun of the man to produce and gener the man.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCxvv He may not be sayd to be the holy goost, whiche is produced of ye father & the sone.
1614 W. Jones Mysterie of Christes Natiuitie sig. B4v Aarons rod did bud and beare Almonds, when a spotlesse Virgin did produce a Child.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 125 Eunuchs..are smooth, and produce not a Beard.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 687 Who..by imprudence mixt, Produce prodigious Births of bodie or mind. View more context for this quotation
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. i. 7 Every Creature is produced by its own Kind.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 54 The goat produces but two at a time.
1836 Times 9 June 5/2 A dwarf, who is herself but 30 inches high, and yet has produced a child of the ordinary size.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §28 The anthers..produce pollen, and the carpels..produce ovules.
1902 D. McDonald Garden Compan. Ser. I. 38 It is these early blooms that..produce the finest pods.
1976 ‘A. Garve’ Home to Roost ii. 26 She had naturally expected to start a family... There was no apparent physical reason why we shouldn't produce.
1999 BBC Good Food Apr. 52/1–3 Certain breeds have their own characteristics, such as Morans or Croad Langshans which produce eggs with chocolate-coloured shells.
2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) ix. 205 The mixed-race factor would certainly shake up the gene pool... What happened if she produced some ruddy-haired throwback for me?
c. transitive. Of a country, region, process, etc.: to give forth, yield, furnish, supply; (of a person or community) to grow, raise. Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide, afford, or yield
givec1200
providec1425
supporta1449
utter1547
yield1548
offer1550
afforda1568
servea1577
award1582
presenta1586
produce1585
deliver1605
officiate1667
furnish1754
to throw up1768
scale1853
the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth > yield or produce naturally
fruita1382
engendera1393
breeda1398
gendera1398
yielda1400
proferc1425
to bring out1545
generate1563
produce1585
brooda1625
to send forth1626
propagate1699
pan1873
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > bring in (a revenue)
raise1389
levy1469
to pull in?1529
to fetch again1535
to bring in?1548
yield1573
produce1585
answer1596
in1609
render1687
net1758
rent1775
realize1777
earn1847
recoup1868
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivate plants or crops [verb (transitive)]
tilla1325
raisec1384
uprearc1400
nourisha1500
cherish1519
dig1526
dress1526
govern1532
manure?c1550
rear1581
nurse1594
tame1601
crop1607
cultive1614
cultivate1622
ingentle1622
tend1631
make1714
peck1728
grow1774
farm1793
culture1809
side-dress1888
double-crop1956
produce2006
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. x. 44 b A great countrey of vines producing [Fr. produisant] great aboundance of good wines.
1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 128 Considering ye severall Countrys wch produce wooll.
1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 242 These Mines produce Yearly for the Kings fifth Part, Forty Thousand Pieces of Silver, each valued at Thirteen Ryals.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. i. 68 England hath of late produced great Philosophers.
1765 J. Fothergill Considerations Relative to N. Amer. Colonies 39 In the colder Regions, the Earth produces its Stores with Difficulty.
1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 244 The other goods produced me about one hundred dollars.
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes (1859) I. 379 Near London, the Thames..produces Barbel in great quantities.
1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xlvi. 348 The earth produces in an abundance unknown to other regions.
1915 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 25 Aug. 4/1 Anything will grow in this state and will produce a profit, too, for the grower.
1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p.xi./2 Three multi-million dollar mines now are producing.
1987 M. Flanagan Trust i. 5 The investment will produce income.
2006 N.Y. Times Mag. 16 Apr. 71/1 (advt.) The province is one [of] the most important food baskets of South Africa. It produces a third of the country's maize.
d. transitive. To compose or create (a work of art, literature, etc.); to bring (a creative endeavour) to fruition.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > fashion, shape, or form
i-schapeOE
shapeOE
markc1330
forge1382
kneadc1400
frame?1518
fashion?1553
labour1578
appropriate1594
to shape out1600
elaborate1611
produce1611
moulda1616
fabric1623
coin1627
timber1646
laborate1662
condition1853
1611 J. Donne in T. Coryate Crudities sig. d3 And thou This Booke, greater then all, producest now.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients sig. A2v I had produced..my observations of the manner of painting in use among the ancients.
1716 J. Addison To Sir G. Kneller 9 This wonder of the sculptor's hand Produced, his art was at a stand.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §122 When the solid is produced from the drawing by the artist's own hand.
1827 Times 1 Nov. 3/1 It is evidently impossible to produce a work upon such a subject, which shall not rouse the disapprobation..of some parties.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §4. 297 Not a single book of any real value,..was produced north of the Alps during the fifteenth century.
1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 263 The fine old fellow who had produced more bad pictures than any other two Academicians in the whole of St. John's Wood.
1967 Daily Herald (Chicago) 12 Apr. 8/5 Kingsley Amis has produced a novel at once entertaining, exciting, moving and challenging.
1996 China Post (Taipei) 14 June 10/5 Once again they have produced an album which is bound to be a crowdpleaser.
e. transitive. To make (an object) by physical labour; (now spec.) to make or manufacture (a product or commodity) from components or raw materials.In Economics sometimes merging with 3c.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > manufacture or produce [verb (transitive)]
i-wurchec888
makeeOE
workOE
dighta1175
outworka1325
forge1382
tiffa1400
fabricate1598
elaborate1611
produce1612
manufacture1648
to work off1653
output1858
productionize1939
1612 W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia xi. 85 in J. Smith Map of Virginia Now wee so quietly followed our businesse, that in 3 monthes we made 3 or 4 last of pitch and tarre, and sope ashes, produced a triall of glasse.
1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator III. xvii. 307 The useful Invention of the Spying-Glass, or Telescope, was produced by a Spectacle-Maker.
1769 B. Franklin London 643 Manufactures are only another shape into which so much Provisions and Subsistence are turned as were equal in value to the Manufactures produced.
1844 Times 11 May 3/3 A weaving factory, producing shirt cloth.
1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. ii. §10. 18 However much we manage to produce, there are still many other things which we want to acquire.
1889 Harper's Mag. July 256/1 Plate-glass has only recently been attempted in this country, and there are but four large establishments making it, but they produce enormous quantities.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 6 Sept. 9/1 The true principle is to produce for one's self what one can best produce, and with the product buy elsewhere that which others can best produce.
1947 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 30 Apr. 12/5 The factory produced 28 engines that actually would run.
1987 N. F. Dixon Our own Worst Enemy (1988) vii. 79 The increasing complexity of modern aircraft made them far more costly to produce.
2004 C. P. Shaw Whisky (new ed.) 103/1 As well as Columba Cream, the company produces Murray's Scottish Highland Liqueur.
f. intransitive. slang. To produce or come up with the goods, money, or results.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > be efficacious [verb (intransitive)]
workOE
availa1400
makea1400
prevaila1400
to hit the nail upon (or on) the headc1450
effect1592
serve1593
to tickle it1601
take1611
executea1627
to have force (to do)1713
answer1721
to take place1789
to do the trick1819
to hit (also go to, touch, etc.) the spot1836
produce1881
to press (also push) the button1890
to come through1906
to turn the trick1933
to make a (also the) point1991
1881 G. McDonald Coney Island (MS) iii. i. 2 The penalty that any lady of color pays for the society of a popular artist is, that she must produce.
1935 N.Y. Herald-Tribune 3 Dec. 23/7 He was ‘fired’ as head coach at Texas A. and M. College at the tag end of the 1933 schedule—unable to ‘produce’ in his five-year stretch there.
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 226 Ring me. And you'd better produce.
1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 64/3 One queen's ‘husband’ asked her to ‘produce’ for four of his friends and stabbed her when she declined.
1995 Times 25 Sept. 26/4 There is competition for places and Stan has to produce not because he is an £8.5-million player but because he is in our team.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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