Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Produced"

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

produced
adj : that is caused by; "if...such a change is produced
by...insulin comas or electroshocks"; "the emotional
states produced by this drug"


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