different between produce vs instruct

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?d?c? (“to lead forth”), from pr?- (“forth, forward”) + d?c? (“to lead, bring”). The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?dyo?os?, IPA^(key): /p???dju?s/, /p???d??u?s/
• (General American) enPR: pr?do?os?, IPA^(key): /p???dus/
• Rhymes: -u?s
• Hyphenation: pro?duce

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?d'yo?os, IPA^(key): /?p??dju?s/, /?p??d??u?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?o?.dus/, /?p??.dus/
• Hyphenation: prod?uce

Verb

produce (third-person singular simple present produces, present participle producing, simple past and past participle produced)

1. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
2. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
3. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
4. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.

5. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

     to produce a man's life to threescore

6. (music) To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.

Derived terms

• reproduce

Related terms

Synonyms

• (To yield, make or manufacture; to generate): bring forth, come up with

Antonyms

• (to make or manufacture): destroy, ruin

Translations

Noun

produce (uncountable)

1. That which is produced.

   Synonyms: output, proceeds, product, yield

2. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.
3. Offspring.
   • 1865, The Turf and the Racehorse

     With regard to the mare that has proved herself of the first class during her racing career, let us contrast the probable success of her produce […]

4. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.

Usage notes

Frequently used in the collocation produce aisle, since c. 1960, specifically in the sense “fruits and vegetables”.

Hypernyms

• (items produced): output, products

Translations

References

Further reading

• produce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• produce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• produce at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• crouped

Interlingua

Verb

produce

1. present of producer
2. imperative of producer

Italian

Verb

produce

1. third-person singular indicative present of produrre

Latin

Verb

pr?d?ce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pr?d?c?

Noun

pr?duce

1. ablative singular of pr?dux

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?d?cere, present active infinitive of pr?d?c?, French produire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pro?du.t?e]

Verb

a produce (third-person singular present produce, past participle produs) 3rd conj.

1. (transitive) to produce

Conjugation

Derived terms

• produc?tor
• producere
• produs

Related terms

• produc?ie

Spanish

Verb

produce

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of producir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of producir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of producir.

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nstr?ctus, perfect passive participle of ?nstru? (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?st??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

instruct (third-person singular simple present instructs, present participle instructing, simple past and past participle instructed)

1. (transitive) To teach by giving instructions.

   Synonyms: educate, guide

   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene 3,^[1]

     Supply me with the habit and instruct me

     How I may formally in person bear me

     Like a true friar.

   • 1682, Aphra Behn, The False Count, London: Jacob Tonson, Act III, Scene 2, p. 33,^[2]

     What a dishonour’s this, to me, to have so Dull a Father, that needs to be instructed in his Duty.

   • 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 156, 14 September, 1751, in Volume 5, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 177,^[3]

     […] the design of tragedy is to instruct by moving the passions,

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 10,^[4]

     […] I should deem you a man sore sick, it may be, yet not so sick but that an instructed and watchful physician might well hope to cure you.

   • 1974, Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, New York: William Morrow, Part 4, Chapter 29, p. 353,^[5]

     At the Laundromat I instruct Chris on how to operate the drier, start the washing machines […]

2. (transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do.

   Synonyms: command, direct, order

   Usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise"

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act III, Scene 1,^[6]

     What, shall a child instruct you what to do?

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 39,^[7]

     All the servants were instructed to address her as “Mum,” or “Madam” […]

   • 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: Ballantine, 1997, Chapter 5, p. 195,^[8]

     Observing that the Christ Child’s nose was running, she deftly wiped it; then she held the handkerchief in place, while instructing him to “blow.”

Related terms

Translations

Noun

instruct (plural instructs)

1. (obsolete) Instruction.

Adjective

instruct (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Arranged; furnished; provided.
   • c. 1615, George Chapman (translator), Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 4, p. 62,^[9]

     For he had neither ship, instruct with oares,

     Nor men to fetch him from those stranger shores.

2. (obsolete) Instructed; taught; enlightened.
   • 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, London: John Starkey, Book 1, lines 438-441, p. 24,^[10]

     Who ever by consulting at thy shrine

     Return’d the wiser, or the more instruct

     To flye or follow what concern’d him most,

     And run not sooner to his fatal snare?

Anagrams

• unstrict