Produce



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• n. 产品, 农产品
• ［英］ n. 产品, 农产品 ( something that has been produced)
• ［类］ envelope : letter / crate : produce ( 信封里装信 / 柳条箱里装农产品)
• ［记］ pro（向前）＋duce（引导） -> 引出的产品

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (produced; producing)

• Etymology: Middle English (Scots), from Latin producere, from pro- forward + ducere to lead — more at tow
• Date: 15th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to offer to view or notice
  • 2. to give birth or rise to ; yield
  • 3. to extend in length, area, or volume <produce a side of a triangle>
  • 4. to make available for public exhibition or dissemination: as
    • a. to provide funding for <search for backers to produce the film>
    • b. to oversee the making of <will produce their new album>
  • 5.
    • a. to cause to have existence or to happen ; bring about
    • b. to give being, form, or shape to ; make; especially manufacture
  • 6. to compose, create, or bring out by intellectual or physical effort
  • 7. to cause to accrue
• intransitive verb
  • to bear, make, or yield something
• ? producible adjective

II. noun

• Date: 1695
• 1.
  • a. something produced
  • b. the amount produced ; yield
• 2. agricultural products and especially fresh fruits and vegetables as distinguished from grain and other staple crops
• 3. the progeny usually of a female animal

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