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Produce is a related term of composition.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between produce and composition

is that produce is (obsolete) to draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong while composition is (obsolete) consistency; accord; congruity.

As nouns the difference between produce and composition

is that produce is items produced while composition is the proportion of different parts to make a whole.

As a verb produce

is to yield, make or manufacture; to generate.

produce

English

Verb

(produc)
  • To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
  • * Macaulay
  • the greatest jurist his country had produced
  • * 1856 , , Volume 3, page 510,
  • At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind.
  • * 1999 , Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification , Volume 3, CSIRO Publishing, page 72,
  • Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.
  • * 2000 , Jane McGary, Environment: Australia and New Zealand'', Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, ''Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension , page 567,
  • 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.
  • * 2006 , Office of the United States Trade Representative, National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: 2006 , page 29,
  • The Agreement criminalizes end-user piracy and requires Australia to authorize the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of counterfeit and pirated goods and the equipment used to produce them.
  • * 2006 November 21, Kenya National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): Parliamentary Debates , page 3805,
  • We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.
  • * 2008 , Primary Australian History: Book F , R.I.C. Publications, page 43,
  • He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.
  • * 2010', Carlos Laurenço, Hermine K. Wöhri, ''Measuring Dimuons '''Produced in Proton-Nucleus Collisions in the NA60 Experiment at the SPS'', Helmut Satz, Sourav Sarkar, Bikash Sinha (editors) , ''The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures , Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 785, page 280,
  • Besides, some of the rejected dimuons were produced in collisions downstream of the target region (in the beam dump or in the hadron absorber, for instance).
  • To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
  • * 1810 , Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings: volume 8
  • It was necessary for the prisoner to produce a witness to prove his innocency.
  • * 2006 , Tom Smart, Lee Benson, In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation , page 262,
  • LDS security produced identification information, photographs, and videotape of an antiMormon preacher who they said called himself Emmanuel and was often seen around Temple Square, especially at conference time.
  • * 2007 , Transit Cooperative Research Program TRCP Report 86: Public Transportation Passenger Security Inspections: A Guide for Policy Decision Makers , page 22,
  • The plaintiff alleges that he was unlawfully detained at the airport by state troopers and threatened with arrest unless he produced identification and his travel documents.
  • (media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
  • * 1982 January 30, Imported Producers Spread Early Sound to Global Markets'', '' , page M-16,
  • 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.
  • * 2001 , Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films , page 56,
  • In 1940, he co-wrote the script for Broken Strings , an independently produced film in which he starred as a concert violinist.
  • * 2011 , Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 , page 570,
  • This beautifully produced film was introduced in 2003.
  • (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
  • to produce a side of a triangle
  • (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
  • to produce a man's life to threescore
    (Sir Thomas Browne)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Items produced.
  • Amount produced.
  • Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.
  • * 1852 , F. Lancelott, Australia As It Is: Its Settlements, Farms and Gold Fields , page 151,
  • All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yard produce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.
  • * 1861 , William Westgarth, Australia: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition , page 54,
  • Taking a retrospect, then, of fourteen years preceding 1860, and making two periods of seven years each, the value of the exports of the produce or manufactures of this country to Australia has been, for the annual average of the first seven years, 1846-52, 2½ millions sterling; while for the second period, 1856-59, the annual average has been 11 millions.
  • * 1999 , Bruce Brown, Malcolm McKinnon, New Zealand in World Affairs, 1972-1990 , page 291,
  • While it is true that New Zealand?s economic stake in the region [of Oceania] remained relatively small when compared with the major markets for New Zealand produce in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe, it nevertheless remained the region through which trade must pass on its way to these larger markets.
  • * 2008 , Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings, Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices , page 230,
  • A farm supervisor is employed to coordinate the planting and harvesting of produce by volunteers.
  • Offspring.
  • (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.
  • Usage notes

    Frequently used in the collocation , since c. 1960, specifically in the sense “fruits and vegetables”. Why do you call it “the produce aisle”?

    Hypernyms

    * (items produced) output, products

    References

    Statistics

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    composition

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
  • The general makeup of something.
  • (obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.
  • * , I.40:
  • It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it.
  • * 1630 , John Smith, True travels , in Kupperman 1988, p.50:
  • with an incredible courage they advanced to the push of the Pike with the defendants, that with the like courage repulsed, that the Turks retired and fled into the Castle, from whence by a flag of truce they desired composition .
  • (obsolete) An agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling.
  • * 1745 , Edward Young, Night-Thoughts , II:
  • Insidious death! should his strong hand arrest, / No composition sets the prisoner free.
  • (legal) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
  • A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
  • An essay.
  • (linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
  • A work of music, literature or art.
  • * 1818 , (Jane Austen), A letter dated 8 September 1818:
  • and how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard words, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment. Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.
  • (printing) Typesetting.
  • (label) Applying a function to the result of another.
  • (obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.
  • * Shakespeare
  • There is no composition in these news / That gives them credit.
  • Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
  • The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition .

    Synonyms

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