Produce vs Work - 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.
Employment.
#Labour, occupation, job.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand / That you yet know not of.
#*Bible, 2 (w) xxxi. 21
#*:In every work that he beganhe did it with all his heart, and prospered.
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, title= #The place where one is employed.
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Effort.
#Effort expended on a particular task.
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##Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
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#(lb) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
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, title= #(lb) A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit.
Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
(lb) Product; the result of effort.
# The result of a particular manner of production.
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# Something produced using the specified material or tool.
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#(lb) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:to leave no rubs or blotches in the work
#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:The work some praise, / And some the architect.
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#*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work , a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
#(lb) A fortification.
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The staging of events to appear as real.
(lb) Ore before it is dressed.
:(Raymond)
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
# Followed by in'' (or ''at , etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
# Followed by as . Said of one's job title
#* , chapter=17
, title= # Followed by for . Said of a company or individual who employs.
# Followed by with . General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
To effect by gradual degrees.
* Addison
To embroider with thread.
To set into action.
To cause to ferment.
To ferment.
* Francis Bacon
To exhaust, by working.
To shape, form, or improve a material.
To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
To provoke or excite; to influence.
To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
To cause to work.
To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (figuratively) To influence.
To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
To move in an agitated manner.
* Addison
To behave in a certain way when handled;
(transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
* {{quote-book, passage=So sad it seemed, and its cheek-bones gleamed, and its fingers flicked the shore; / And it lapped and lay in a weary way, and its hands met to implore; / That I gently said: “Poor, restless dead, I would never work you woe; / Though the wrong you rue you can ne’er undo, I forgave you long ago.”
, author=Robert W. Service
, title=(Ballads of a Cheechako), chapter=(The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike), year=1909}}
(obsolete) To hurt; to ache.
* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), ''(w, Le Morte d'Arthur), Book XXI:
In transitive terms the difference between produce and work
is that produce is to make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection while work is to cause to work.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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
(-)page 151,
- All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yard produce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.
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.
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.
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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
* * *work
English
(wikipedia work)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) worc, weorc, . English cognates include bulwark, energy, erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright.Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo , meaning "vortex", and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work .}}
See http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055.
Synonyms
* (employment) See also * (productive activity) See alsoDerived terms
* artwork * at work * body of work * bodywork * breastwork * bridgework * busy work * casework * clockwork * derivative work * dirty work * dreamwork * earthwork * field work, fieldwork * finger work * firework * fretwork * groundwork * guesswork * hard work * handiwork * homework * housework * ironwork * leg work, legwork * lifework * masterwork * needlework * openwork * overwork * paintwork * paperwork * patchwork * piece of work * piecework * public works * reference work * road work, roadwork * schoolwork * shift work, shiftwork * spadework * teamwork * waterworks * waxwork * wickerwork * woodwork * work ethic * work of art * worklist * workly * workout * workplace * workroom * workshop * workstation * workstead * workupSee also
* -ingReferences
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- I work''' in a national park; she '''works''' in the human resources department; he mostly '''works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
- I work as a cleaner.
- she works''' for Microsoft; he '''works for the president
- I work''' closely with my Canadian counterparts; you '''work''' with computers; she '''works with the homeless people from the suburbs
- he worked''' his way through the crowd; the dye '''worked''' its way through; using some tweezers, she '''worked the bee sting out of her hand
- So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains / Of rushing torrents and descending rains, / Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, / Till by degrees the floating mirror shines.
- the working of beer when the barm is put in
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about
- A ship works in a heavy sea.
- confused with working sands and rolling waves
- ‘I wolde hit were so,’ seyde the Kynge, ‘but I may nat stonde, my hede worchys so—’
