different between production vs series

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French production, from Latin productio, productionem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). See produce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???d?k??n/

Noun

production (countable and uncountable, plural productions)

1. The act of producing, making or creating something. [from 15th c.]

2. The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration. [from 15th c.]
3. The act of being produced.

4. The total amount produced.
5. The presentation of a theatrical work.

6. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.

7. That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).

8. The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
9. (zoology) An extension or protrusion.
10. (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)

11. (programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
12. (Scotland, law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.

Derived terms

• productionise, productionize
• production line

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????? (purodakushon)

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin productio, productionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.dyk.sj??/

Noun

production f (plural productions)

1. production

Related terms

• produire
• produit

Further reading

• “production” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin seri?s, from serere (“to join together, bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??.?i?z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??iz/, /?si?iz/
• Homophones: Siri's, Siris, Ceres

Noun

series (plural series)

1. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

   Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence

2. (broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

   Synonyms: show, program

3. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums ${\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{a_{i}}}$ of a given sequence a_i.

4. (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

5. (zoology) An unranked taxon.
7. (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
8. (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
9. (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

Usage notes

• (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.

Synonyms

• serie (obsolete)

Derived terms

• in series
• (media, television) TV series
• (electrical) series-wound

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shir?zu)

Translations

Adjective

series (not comparable)

1. (electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit.

   Antonym: parallel

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• reises, ressie, seiser

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s???i.?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se??i.es/

Verb

series

1. second-person singular conditional form of ser

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

series

1. Plural form of serie

Interlingua

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Latin

Etymology

From ser? (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se.ri.e?s/, [?s???ie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.ri.es/, [?s???i?s]

Noun

seri?s f (genitive seri??); fifth declension

1. a row
2. a succession
3. a series
4. a chain

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• series in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• series in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• series in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

series

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of seriar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of seriar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?jes/, [?se.?jes]

Etymology 1

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Etymology 2

Verb

series

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of seriar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of seriar.

Swedish

Noun

series

1. indefinite genitive singular of serie