produce
/pɹəˈd͡ʒuːs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.78 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
Transitive verb
verb
To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
Transitive verb
verb
Example Sentences
- "[chapter XIII, page 264:] […] the greatest jurist that his country had produced. […] [chapter XVI, page 644:] At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind."
- "Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants."
- "For example, Mary Lou Morris, past president of the Environment Institute of Australia, has been her country′s delegate to a number of global environmental conferences and helped to produce the Australian National Heritage Charter."
- "The Agreement criminalizes end-user piracy and requires Australia to authorize the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of counterfeit and pirated goods and the equipment used to produce them."
- "We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy."
- "He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcōder. Middle English produce English produce From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: produce, prōdūcō
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.