produce
part of speech
verb (produce, produces, produced, producing); noun (produce — uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) To produce is to make or grow something. tree →
2) Produce (said PROD-yoos) is fruit and vegetables that farmers grow. tree →
3) To produce is to show or bring out: she produced a ticket from her bag. tree →
4) To produce a film, show or play is to organise and pay for making it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: things made or grown, often at a rate; a factory produces items per hour; «produces … a day». In science: plants produce oxygen, cows produce milk, the Sun produces heat and light. In everyday life: the produce section of a supermarket, farmers' markets. In stories: a magician produced a rabbit from a hat.
examples
- The factory produces 500 toys a day. tree →
- The farm sells fresh produce. tree →
- Each hen produces 1 egg a day. tree →
- How many cars are produced in a week? tree →
- Plants produce oxygen. tree →
- Bees produce honey. tree →
- The magician produced a coin from behind my ear. tree →
- Our class produced a short play. tree →
- Buy local produce at the market. tree →
- Gaea also produced the mountains, and Pontus (the sea). tree →
note
«Produces … a day» gives a rate: total = rate × days. Trap: «produce» as a noun (vegetables) is the thing counted. Stress: verb pro-DUCE, noun PROD-uce. «Product» is the thing made, and in maths the answer to a multiplication.
In the corpora
- Nobody typed the chatbot's answers in one by one; each answer is produced fresh when you ask.
- Chatbots can produce made-up cases, books or quotes that sound real; even experts must check them.
- In Europa Universalis 5 each location produces one raw material and trade flows to the markets that pull hardest.
- Countries trade because none can make everything well, so each sells what it is good at producing and buys the rest.
- Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «produce» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.