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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.
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