Produce vs Present - What's the difference?
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To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
* Macaulay
* 1856 , , Volume 3,
* 1999 , Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification , Volume 3, CSIRO Publishing,
* 2000 , Jane McGary, Environment: Australia and New Zealand'', Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, ''Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension ,
* 2006 , Office of the United States Trade Representative, National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: 2006 ,
* 2006 November 21, Kenya National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): Parliamentary Debates ,
* 2008 , Primary Australian History: Book F , R.I.C. Publications,
* 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,
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
* 2006 , Tom Smart, Lee Benson, In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation ,
* 2007 , Transit Cooperative Research Program TRCP Report 86: Public Transportation Passenger Security Inspections: A Guide for Policy Decision Makers ,
(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'', '' ,
* 2001 , Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films ,
* 2011 , Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 ,
(mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
(obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
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 ,
* 1861 , William Westgarth, Australia: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition ,
* 1999 , Bruce Brown, Malcolm McKinnon, New Zealand in World Affairs, 1972-1990 ,
* 2008 , Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings, Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices ,
Offspring.
(Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.
Relating to now, for the time being; current.
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, title= Located in the immediate vicinity.
(obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
*, II.5.1.v:
(obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
* Shakespeare
* Massinger
(dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
(obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
* Dryden
A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions.
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, title= (military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 71:
(reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
* Bible, Job i. 6
To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
* Alexander Pope
To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
* 1927 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes :
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To put on, stage (a play etc.).
(military) To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
(reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
(medicine) To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.
(medicine) To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
* Cowper
To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
As nouns the difference between produce and present
is that produce is items produced while present is present tense.As a verb produce
is to yield, make or manufacture; to generate.As an adjective present is
present (that what''/''which is in the place talked about ).produce
English
Verb
(produc)- the greatest jurist his country had produced
page 510,
- At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind.
page 72,
- Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.
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- 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.
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.
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- We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.
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- He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.
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- 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).
- It was necessary for the prisoner to produce a witness to prove his innocency.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- In 1940, he co-wrote the script for Broken Strings , an independently produced film in which he starred as a concert violinist.
page 570,
- This beautifully produced film was introduced in 2003.
- to produce a side of a triangle
- to produce a man's life to threescore
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Noun
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- All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yard produce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- A farm supervisor is employed to coordinate the planting and harvesting of produce by volunteers.
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, productsReferences
Statistics
*External links
* * *present
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic or pedantic) *Etymology 1
(wikipedia present) From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) praesent-, praesens present participle of .Adjective
(-)- The barbaric practice continues to the present day.
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- Amongst this number of cordials and alteratives I do not find a more present remedy than a cup of wine or strong drink, if it be soberly and opportunely used.
- a present pardon
- An ambassadordesires a present audience.
- a present wit
- to find a god so present to my prayer
Antonyms
* (in vicinity) absentDerived terms
* all present and correct * at present * at the present time * present company excepted * presently * present participle * present tenseDerived terms
* no time like the present * present-dayEtymology 2
From (etyl) presenten'', from (etyl) ''presenter'', from (etyl) ''presentare'' "to show", from (etyl) ''praesent-, praesens'' present participle of ''praeesse "to be in front of".Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“A very welcome, kind, useful present , that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”}}
Verb
(en verb)- to present an envoy to the king
- In the diocese of Gloucester in 1548 two inhabitants of Slimbridge were presented for saying that holy oil was ‘of no virtue but meet to grease sheep’.
- Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the lord.
- So ladies in romance assist their knight, / Present the spear, and arm him for the fight.
- I do begin to realize that the matter must be presented in such a way as may interest the reader.
citation, passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented' to citizens affects what they choose, society should ' present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
- The theater is proud to present the Fearless Fliers.
- Well, one idea does present itself.
- The patient presented with insomnia.
- Anne Robinson presents "The Weakest Link".
- She was presented with an honorary degree for her services to entertainment.
- My last, least offering, I present thee now.
- I presented my compliments to Lady Featherstoneshaw.