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.
He declined to predict when Digital would produce a workstation based on that product.
The testing is the result of an executive order by President Reagan two years ago directing the government to produce a drug-free workplace.
A significantly weaker pound may be needed to produce the former.
He also disputes analysts who say the Robins bid results from American Home's desperate need to produce new products to replace Inderal.
We have significantly good ensembles, quite apart from LCDT or Rambert Dance: Lloyd Newson's DV8; Phoenix Dance; Kim Brandstrup's Arc Dance (with no subsidy), Laurie Booth and Russell Maliphant, Yolande Snaith, all produce fine work.
One of the grievances in Lithuania, for instance, is that the Lithuanians are short of food because half of what they produce is shipped to the Russian republic.
Just as the October 1987 "meltdown" in the stock market did not produce an economic recession (as we correctly predicted at the time), so the present strength in the stock market does not necessarily mean that the economy will avoid recession.
Movie mogul Raymond Chow recalls his initial response to a suggestion he produce a film called "Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles." "It's quite impossible!
"It is one of the points of the reform that is positive." Wilk said government policy had mandated that Autosan produce for the domestic bus market and for the Soviet Union at prices that were not profitable.
The group, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, is struggling to produce a treatyin time for a mid-November summit in Paris.
The new plant, which may be operational by mid-1990, initially would produce the Cray-3, a supercomputer still being developed.
It was expected to produce heavy snow during the weekend in the mountains of Washington, Oregon and northern California.
"If you go to (the networks) with a best-selling novel and a star, you'll produce it.
The lunglike membrane on top of the film has to be custom designed to the respiration rate of each type of produce held in the box, and it requires good refrigeration for optimum performance.
Future developments might produce a binding substance that clings to abnormal genetic material associated with an overactive BCL2 rather than the messenger, he said.
Under terms, ASK will make and market natural gas-powered cogeneration power systems designed to produce electricity at less cost than a utility would charge a small business.
The staff will produce seven hours of live news, weather and markets coverage every week day, and several half-hour summaries daily.
A day earlier, their request focused on how long Miss Levin had to be choked to produce pinpoint hemorrhaging on her eyelids.
Their other targets include three North Carolina Democrats whose districts always produce squeakers.
That led futures traders to predict that Brazil would produce more soybeans for export, thereby boosting world supplies and lowering cash and futures market prices.
"We don't want to produce throwaway cars.
An HSBC victory would produce a better capitalised bank than Lloyds combined with Midland.
The world's top maker of ceramic packages for integrated circuits will produce more cheerful news when it produces interim results today.
General Motors Corp.'s Saturn subsidiary is planning to produce 10 models by 1994 and possibly expand its current one-plant operation, a trade journal said today.
Mr Hosokawa has so far refused LDP demands to ask his former aide, who handled his financial affairs, to testify in parliament and has been unable to produce receipts showing he repaid the Y100m.
Even with a trade agreement, the Soviets would enjoy few immediate benefits because their industries do not now produce much that could compete on world markets.
Carolyn Lipson-Walker, whose doctoral dissertation is titled "Shalom Y'all: The Folklore and Culture of Southern Jews," said Southern Jews have fused their social and religious practices to produce a dual culture.
More generally, every passenger can expect to produce a pound of liquid during a flight, In the unlikely event that a lavatory should fill up, sensors warn the cabin crew, which then shuts the lavatory down.
Dole and his campaign aides are likely to produce polls, charts, graphs, senators, and an academician or two to explain why Bush can't possibly win the presidential race in the fall.
Its main role is to produce enriched uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons.