Dictionary Definition
produce n : fresh fruits and vegetable grown for
the market [syn: green goods,
green
groceries, garden
truck]
Verb
1 bring forth or yield; "The tree would not
produce fruit" [syn: bring
forth]
2 create or manufacture a man-made product; "We
produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making
toys for two centuries" [syn: make, create]
3 cause to occur or exist; "This procedure
produces a curious effect"; "The new law gave rise to many
complaints"; "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor" [syn:
bring
about, give
rise]
4 bring out for display; "The proud father
produced many pictures of his baby"; "The accused brought forth a
letter in court that he claims exonerates him" [syn: bring
forth]
5 bring onto the market or release; "produce a
movie"; "bring out a book"; "produce a new play" [syn: bring on,
bring
out]
6 cultivate by growing, often involving
improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux
region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma";
"We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: grow, raise, farm]
7 come to have or undergo a change of (physical
features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed
abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body";
"Well-developed breasts" [syn: grow, develop, get, acquire]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
- defn English
Pronunciation
- (RP): prədyo͞os', /pr@"dju:s/
- /prəˈdjuːs/
- To make or manufacture.
- The factory will produce 10,000 lawn chairs.
- To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.
- By 2008, travellers must produce their passport when crossing from Canada to the USA.
- (media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an
audience or to the public.
- Spielberg produced that movie.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
make or manufacture
- Arabic: (’ántaja)
- Chinese: 制造 (zhìzào)
- Dutch: produceren, maken
- Finnish: tuottaa, valmistaa, tehdä
- French: produire
- German: produzieren, herstellen
- Hungarian: gyártani
- Italian: produrre
- Japanese: 生産する (せいさんする, seisan surú)
- Korean: 만들다 (mandeulda)
- Marathi: उतप।दन
- Portuguese: produzir
- Russian: производить (proizvodít’)
- Spanish: producir
- Swedish: producera
- Telugu: ఉత్పత్తి చేయు (utpatti chaeyu), తయారు చేయు (tayaaru chaeyu)
make available to
- Dutch: voorleggen, beschikbaar stellen
- Hungarian: bemutatni
sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc)
- Dutch: produceren, maken
- Finnish: tuottaa
- German: produzieren
- Kurdish:
Noun
- defn English
Pronunciation
- (RP): prŏd'yo͞os, /"prQdju:s/
- /ˈprɒdjuːs/
- (US) /ˈpɹoʊ.djuːs/
Synonyms
- (items produced by manufacture): products
Translations
items produced by manufacture
fruit and vegetables for sale
Italian
Verb form
produce- third-person singular indicative present of produrre
Romanian
Etymology
producerePronunciation
Verb
- to produce
Conjugation
ro-conj-duce proSpanish
Verb form
produce- third-person singular indicative present of producir
- second-person singular imperative of producir
Extensive Definition
Produce is a general American term for a group of
farm-produced goods,
generally limited to fruits and vegetables. More specifically,
the term "produce" often implies that the foods are fresh and
generally in the same state as where they were harvested. In
supermarkets the
term is also used to refer to the section where fruits and
vegetables are kept. Produce is the main product sold by greengrocers, farmers'
markets, and fruit markets.
Price
Look-Up Codes (stickers) in the United
States are as follows:
- Beginning with a 3 or 4: produce is conventionally grown, with the use of pesticides and/or artificial fertilizers.
- Beginning with a 9: produce is grown organically, without pesticides etc.
- Beginning with an 8: GMO produce, contains genetically modified material.
Seasonal Produce
Although in the United States most produce is available year-round, produce is at its best and cheapest in the season it is harvested. Seasonality of produce depends on the region. Below is a general list of seasonality for United States produce.Spring fruits are apricots, pineapple,
strawberries, and mango. Spring vegetables for spring are peas
(sugar snap and snow) and more delicate cabbages including mustard
greens, baby lettuce, baby spinach and watercress. Also in season
are artichoke, asparagus, avocado, new potatoes, rhubarb. Summer
fruits include some berries (blackberries, blueberries,
raspberries) and stone fruit (nectarines, peaches, and plums) as
well as melons. Summer vegetables include beets, corn, cucumber,
eggplant, green beans, tomatoes, zucchini.
Autumn fruits includes apples, grapes, figs,
pears, and pomegranates. Autumn vegetables include many cultivars of wild cabbage
(broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, collards, endives, and
kale). Root vegetables (garlic, ginger, parsnips, turnips and yams)
and winter squash (acorn squash, butternut squash and pumpkins) are
also in season. Corn is in season and peas, seasonal in spring, are
also seasonal in late autumn.
Winter fruits include citrus (clementines,
grapefruit, oranges, and lemons) and pomegranates. Winter
vegetables include hardier cabbages (kale, leeks, raddicchio, and
Brussels sprout). Also seasonal in winter are some root vegetables
(rutabaga, turnips, and radishes) as well as winter squash.
Some produce, such as onions, lettuce and
spinach, are seasonal year-round.
produce in Japanese: 農産物
produce in Simple English: Produce
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Irish potato, Kraut, accomplish, achieve, act, adduce, advance, affect, aftermath, allege, array, assemble, attain, aubergine, author, avails, baked goods, be a gas, be
a hit, be productive, beans, bear, bear fruit, bearing, beget, betoken, bill, bomb, box office, brandish, breathe, breed, bring about, bring forth,
bring forward, bring into being, bring into view, bring off, bring
on, bring out, bring to bear, bring to effect, bring to fruition,
bring to light, bring to notice, bring to pass, bring up, build, bumper crop, cabbage, canned goods, cast, cause, citrus fruit, coin, collaborate, commissions, commit, compass, compose, compound, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, construct, consummate, continue, create, credit, credits, crop, cultivate, dangle, dash off, deal with,
deliver, demonstrate, deploy, develop, devise, discharge, disclose, dispatch, display, disposable income,
dispose of, distribute, dividend, dividends, divulge, do, do the job, do the trick, do to,
drag out, dramatize,
draw, draw on, draw out,
dream up, drupe, earned
income, earnings,
editorialize,
effect, effectuate, eggplant, elaborate, elongate, embody, enact, engender, engineer, erect, establish, evidence, evince, evoke, evolve, excrete, execute, exhibit, experience
imaginatively, expose to view, express, extend, extrude, fabricate, fail, fancy, fantasize, fashion, father, feature, fetch, fictionalize, flaunt, flop, flourish, food items, form, formulate, found, frame, free-lance, fructify, fruit, fruit cocktail, fruit
compote, fruit soup, fudge together, fulfill, furnish, gains, gate, gate receipts, generate, gestate, get, get up, ghost, ghostwrite, give birth to,
give occasion to, give origin to, give out, give rise to, give
sign, give token, go and do, green goods, greens, groceries, grocery, gross, gross income, gross
receipts, grow, harvest, hatch, headline, highlight, ideate, illuminate, imagine, inaugurate, incarnate, income, indicate, indite, induce, industrialize, inflict, initiate, institute, intake, introduce, invent, knock off, knock out,
lactate, legumes, lengthen, lengthen out, let
out, love apple, mad apple, make, make a hit, make clear, make
plain, make up, manage,
manifest, manufacture, marshal, mass-produce, materialize, mature, mean, melodramatize, mold, mould, mount, multiply, muster up, net, net income, net receipts,
novelize, occasion, offer, open, open a show, originate, output, overproduce, packaged goods,
pamphleteer,
parade, parent, patch together, pay, perform, perpetrate, piece together,
pieplant, plead, polish off, potato, potherbs, prefabricate, premiere, prepare, present, preview, proceeds, procreate, product, production, profits, prolong, prolongate, prompt, propagate, protract, provide, pull, pull off, put away, put
forth, put on, put out, put together, put up, raise, rally, realize, rear, receipt, receipts, receivables, render, represent, reproduce, returns, reveal, revenue, rhubarb, roll out, royalties, run up, scenarize, secern, second crop, secrete, secure, set afloat, set forth,
set on foot, set the stage, set up, shape, show, show forth, sire, spark, spawn, spin out, spotlight, spud, stage, star, start, stone fruit, strain, stretch, stretch out, string
out, succeed, supply, suppose, take, take and do, take care of,
take-in, takings,
tater, tauten, tear, tense, theatricalize, think up,
throughput, throw on
paper, tighten, tinned
goods, token, tomato, trot out, truck, try out, turn out, turn the
trick, unearned income, unfold, up and do, vegetables, vintage, volume-produce,
water, wave, weep, white potato, whomp up,
work, work out, work up,
wreak, write, yield