produceverb [ T ]
uk/prəˈdʒuːs/us/prəˈduːs/produce verb [ T ] (MAKE)
B1 to make something or bring something into existence:
When animals produce young, they give birth to them:
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- Plutonium is a fuel used to produce nuclear energy.
- $4 million worth of souvenirs and gift items have been produced for the event.
- The meat produced from a pig is called pork, bacon, or ham.
- The government has produced a series of leaflets designed to extend public awareness of the dangers of AIDS.
- New York City produces 10500 tons of residential waste each day.
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Creating and producing
- bear fruit idiom
- bring
- bring sth out
- churn sth out
- cobble
- craft
- mass-produce
- on the go idiom
- overproduce
- patch sth together
- phase
- pump
- raise
- rush
- throw
- turn sth in
- turn sth out
- uncreative
- unleash
- unproductive
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produce verb [ T ] (CAUSE)
B2 to cause a reaction or result:
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- Cars produce a lethal cocktail of gasses.
- Their methods of assessment produce some unusual results.
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Causing things to happen
- -ization
- -ize
- actuation
- agent
- awaken (sth) in sb
- be associated with sth
- beget
- draw
- equal
- fuel
- instigate
- instigator
- introduce
- lie
- plant
- rise
- usher
- usher sth in
- wreak
- wrought
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produce verb [ T ] (FILM/MUSIC)
to organize the practical and financial matters relating to the preparation of a film, play, or television or radio programme
to be in charge of making a musical recording and to be responsible for the arrangement of the music, the combination of the different instruments or voices and the general sound of it
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Cinema & theatre: production, direction & recording
- audition
- auteur
- computer-animated
- direct
- director
- dress rehearsal
- editor
- effect
- filmmaker
- make
- moviemaker
- picturize
- prop
- rehearsal
- run-through
- set
- setting
- stage
- staging
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produce verb [ T ] (BRING OUT)
C1 to bring something out from somewhere and show it:
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- The company produced receipts in substantiation of its claim.
- He opened his suitcase and produced a large box of chocolates.
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Showing and demonstrating
- act
- act sth out
- attest
- barometer
- bespeak
- bring
- bring sth forward
- flicker
- manifestation
- prove
- put up sth
- radiate
- revealing
- says something about sb/sth idiom
- signify
- speak
- strike
- suggest
- token
- wear
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produce verb [ T ] (RESULT IN)
to result in or discover something, especially proof:
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Causing things to happen
- -ization
- -ize
- actuation
- agent
- awaken (sth) in sb
- be associated with sth
- beget
- draw
- equal
- fuel
- instigate
- instigator
- introduce
- lie
- plant
- rise
- usher
- usher sth in
- wreak
- wrought
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producenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈprɒdʒ.uːs/us/ˈprɑː.duːs/C2 food or any other substance or material that is grown or obtained through farming:
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Farming - general words
- agrarian
- agriculture
- arable
- corn earworm
- crop
- cultivate
- farming
- food security
- harrow
- homestead
- PYO
- rabi
- reap
- rick
- seed
- slash-and-burn
- subsistence farming
- the Agrarian Revolution
- thrash
- till
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