Definition of "produce" []

• To bring forth; yield: a plant that produces pink flowers. (verb-transitive)
• To create by physical or mental effort: produce a tapestry; produce a poem. (verb-transitive)
• To manufacture: factories that produce cars and trucks. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to occur or exist; give rise to: chemicals that produce a noxious vapor when mixed. (verb-transitive)
• To bring forth; exhibit: reached into a pocket and produced a packet of matches; failed to produce an eyewitness to the crime. (verb-transitive)

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• "It is entirely to be ascribed to the supplanting, _in the national subsistence, of a large part of home produce by an equally large part of foreign produce_."
• "When Carlyle, in the strength of his reaction against morbid introspective Byronism, cried aloud to all men in their several vocation, '_Produce, produce; be it but the infinitesimallest product, produce_,' he meant to include production as an element inside the art of living, and an indispensable part and parcel of it."
• "To produce it, there must be, not only the _capacity_ to _produce_ it, in the nerves, but also the"