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Producing

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.

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vb. (present participle of produce English)

Usage examples of "producing".

What has such an adhesive to act upon if there is absolutely no given magnitude of real earth to which it may bind particle after particle in its business of producing the continuous mass?

Middle Ages a measure of stability had been achieved between the coinages of Christendom and the Islamic world, one producing silver, the other gold.

Actuality the abstract: we must not confuse it with the other actualization, strictly so called, that which is contrasted with the power producing actualization.

Universe, engendering the universal things and weaving variety into their being, never at rest from producing an endless sequence of comeliness and shapeliness, a living pastime.

Anything incomplete must be sequent upon these, and take its completion from the principles engendering it which, like fathers, labour in the improvement of an offspring born imperfect: the produced is a Matter to the producing principle and is worked over by it into a shapely perfection.

In the process he refined the technique of marble carving, producing smooth planes that depicted skin, female skin especially, with great realism and the hint, more than the hint, of eroticism.

Generalised fevers, for example, were caused by putrefying humours throughout the body, producing heat, whereas localised illnesses stemmed from toxic humours in individual organs, leading to swelling, or hardening, or pain.

Some idea of Chinese success in this field is given by one calculation, that, in the eleventh century, China was already producing 70 per cent of the iron that would be manufactured in Great Britain at the beginning of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century.

Irnerius had done for Roman law producing a convenient synthesis appropriate for academic consumption.

As technology improved, however, the cost of producing books dropped and it became safer to publish more copies by the latter half of the sixteenth century edition sizes of 2,000 and more were common.

Overall, the picture he paints is of the universities as part of the scientific revolution but without producing any great names of their own or major innovations.

This constant struggle, he thought, goes back and forth as times change, producing progress in both spheres, the social and the individual.

Herder said, had its own history, producing a characteristic consciousness and a particular form of art and literature, not to mention its very language.

No less dangerous was the possibility that female slaves would be found sexually attractive by their masters, producing mixed-blood offspring and a new type of social problem.

Neanderthals were around in the Ice Age, and produced no art that we know of, strongly suggests that they were intellectually incapable of producing such artefacts.