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# produce

«produce» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make or grow something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#m1)

2) Produce (said PROD-yoos) is fruit and vegetables that farmers grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#m2)

3) To produce is to show or bring out: she produced a ticket from her bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#m3)

4) To produce a film, show or play is to organise and pay for making it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#x1)
- The farm sells fresh produce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#x2)
- Each hen produces 1 egg a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#x3)
- How many cars are produced in a week? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#x4)
- Plants produce oxygen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#x5)
- Bees produce honey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#x6)
- The magician produced a coin from behind my ear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#x7)
- Our class produced a short play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#x8)
- Buy local produce at the market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#x9)
- Gaea also produced the mountains, and Pontus (the sea). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/#x10)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/10/)
- [Chatbots can produce made-up cases, books or quotes that sound real; even experts must check them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/6/)
- [In Europa Universalis 5 each location produces one raw material and trade flows to the markets that pull hardest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/6/)
- [Countries trade because none can make everything well, so each sells what it is good at producing and buys the rest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/11/)
- [Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.736/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «produce» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/produce/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.