produce

1. (transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.Examples: "[chapter XIII, page 264:] […] the greatest jurist that his country had produced. […] [chapter XVI, page 644:] At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind."; "Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants."; "For example, Mary Lou Morris, past president of the Environment Institute of Australia, has been her country′s delegate to a number of global environmental conferences and helped to produce the Australian National Heritage Charter."Synonyms: make, generate, yield, create, bring forth, cause, contrive, createAntonyms: destroy, ruintransitive

2. (intransitive) To make or yield something.Examples: "Now it is also my understanding, I believe I am correct in this, that either one or two other manufacturers did not produce this year, which also created a certain shortage."intransitive

3. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.Examples: "It was necessary for the prisoner to produce a witness to prove his innocency."; "The bottom of the barrel was scraped on August 22 when Shrewsbury had to produce Taunton 2-6-0 No. 6312 to work the 8.10 p.m. from Paddington between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury; the stranger was in trouble in the early hours of the next morning at Hollinswood, but managed to reach Shrewsbury."; "LDS security produced identification information, photographs, and videotape of an anti-Mormon preacher who they said called himself Emmanuel and was often seen around Temple Square, especially at conference time."Synonyms: present, offertransitive

4. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.Examples: "David Tickle flew in to Melbourne to produce the quad-platinum (in Australia) LP “True Colors” and the triple gold single “I Got You”— both of which shot the band to international prominence."; "I was just talking with someone in Bowling Green, Ohio who might produce us."; "In 1940, he co-wrote the script for Broken Strings, an independently produced film in which he starred as a concert violinist."transitive

5. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.Examples: "to produce a side of a triangle"

6. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.Examples: "And truely there goes a great deale of providence to produce a mans life unto threeſcore; […]"obsolete