production

production
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Making or bringing about
Nouns
1. production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, erection, edification; coinage; organization; putting together, establishment; workmanship, performance, operation; achievement, completion, authorship, publication, works. See action, preparation.
2. (something produced) product, output; edifice, building, structure, fabric; invention, composition; writing, book, painting, music; flower, fruit, work, handiwork; chef d'œuvre, opus.
3. productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance; pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication; fertilization. See reproduction.
4. producer, creator, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, maker; contractor; construction worker, road gang, carpenter, etc.
5. (act or process of producing) manufacture, manufacturing, fabrication; mass production, assembly line; automation, robotics.
6. factory, plant, mill, foundry, works. See business.
Verbs — produce, perform, operate, do, make, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive; mass-produce, hammer out, manufacture, turn out; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, rear, erect, put together; set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish, complete, perfect. Slang, churn out. See utility.
Adjectives — produced, producing, productive; formative; fabricated, manufactured, synthetic, artificial, man-made, handmade or -crafted, machinemade, hand-built; technocentric.
Quotations — Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production (Winston Churchill).
Antonyms, see destruction, uselessness.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The act of producing]
Syn. origination, creation, authoring, reproduction, yielding, giving, bearing, rendering, giving forth, increasing, augmentation, accrual, return, procreation, occasioning, generation, engendering, fructification, fruiting, blooming, blossoming; see also making .
2. [The amount produced]
Syn. crop, result, stock; see product 2 .
3. [Something produced]
Syn. product, composition, theatrical performance, motion picture, movie.
• make a production out of*,
Syn. fuss over, elaborate, exaggerate; see overdo 1 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
manufacture, creation, fabrication, generation, formation, assembly, construction, invention, outpost.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. Something produced by human effort: product. See MAKE. 2. The amount or quantity produced: output, yield. See BIG. 3. Something that is the result of creative effort: composition, opus, piece, work. See MAKE.

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