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)

Verb

To give something a shape and definition.

* 1932 , The American Scholar , page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa

The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}

To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.

* Prior

Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.

* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC

, title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal , passage=Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner. }}

(of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.

To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

* Shakespeare

Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.