Product
['prɒdʌkt] or ['prɑdʌkt]
Definition
(noun.) an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; 'they improve their product every year'; 'they export most of their agricultural production'.
(noun.) a quantity obtained by multiplication; 'the product of 2 and 3 is 6'.
(noun.) a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances; 'skill is the product of hours of practice'; 'his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue'.
(noun.) a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction; 'a product of lime and nitric acid'.
Typed by Eugenia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.
(n.) The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
(v. t.) To produce; to bring forward.
(v. t.) To lengthen out; to extend.
(v. t.) To produce; to make.
Checker: Terrance
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Produce, yield, proceeds, returns.[2]. Result, effect, work, fruit, production, performance.
Typist: Osborn
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fruit, result, issue, consequence, effect, emanation, work
ANT:Cause, principle, power, motive, energy, operation, action, tendency, law
Inputed by Alphonso
Definition
n. that which grows or is produced: work: composition: effect: (arith.) the result of numbers multiplied together: (Milt.) offspring.—v.t. Product′ (rare) to produce.—ns. Productibil′ity capability of being produced; Produc′tion act of producing: that which is produced: fruit: product: (pol. econ.) creation of values: (zool.) extension protrusion: (pl.) in Scots law written documents produced in support of the action or defence.—adj. Produc′tive having the power to produce: generative: fertile: efficient.—adv. Produc′tively.—ns. Produc′tiveness Productiv′ity.
Edited by Linda
Examples
- Various methods were resorted to in order to keep mold and insects from spoiling the product. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The product is shipped out as soon as it is completed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thus, while the force was reduced nearly one-half, the quantity of product was more than doubled. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Would not matter solidifying after fusion form a glass, a vitreous, rather than a crystalline product? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Undoubtedly the change was mainly a product of contemporary conditions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Again, it is conjectured that bismuth is the end-product of the thorium series. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- By increasing the number of cylinders the product was rapidly added to, each cylinder printing on one side 2,000 sheets per hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For many precious generations the new-lit fires of the human intelligence were to be seriously banked down by this by-product. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In his place has come the factory hand, nearly all footwear being now a product of machinery, and this of greatly varied and effective character. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Another and cheaper product experimented with is the pith of the cornstalk, which is much lighter than the cocoanut fiber and serves the same purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 1840 Fritzsch obtained from indigo a product which he called Aniline, from Anil, the Portuguese for indigo. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The finished product is delivered to a belt-driven coiling reel on which it is wound. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Man first discovered by observation or accident that certain stones were melted or softened by fire, and that the product could be hammered and shaped. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Seeing the need for some means of increasing the demand for honey, a small honey business was started to dispose of the product of customers who had no market. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 1828 Wohler produced urea from inorganic substances, which was the first example of the synthetic production of organic compounds, and it was for many years the only product so formed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- So old an art, and so great and continuous a need for its products necessarily must have resulted in much development and progress. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Guns sold better than all other products. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Ordinarily a combination of products best serves the ends of the physician. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- An enormous quantity of sodium carbonate, or soda, as it is usually called, is needed in the manufacture of glass, soap, bleaching powders, and other commercial products. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A tube is inserted into the mouth of the retort, to carry off the products of the distillation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- They lived on the natural products of the land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This was a vegeto-animal substance, having peculiarities of animal products. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It shows that as inventions multiply, so does the demand for their better and cheaper products increase. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He found that when cows were deprived of food containing fat they still continued to give milk yielding cream or fatty products. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You have been so brotherly as to propose to me to fall in here and take my place among the products of your perseverance and sense. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Among the more familiar products of coal tar or petroleum are moth balls, carbolic acid, benzine, vaseline, and paraffine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The other point is that it is a part of wisdom to utilize the products of past history so far as they are of help for the future. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Warnings of frosts and of freezing weather have enabled the growers of such products to protect and save large quantities of valuable plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was the united products of infinitesimal vegetable causes, and these were neither stems, leaves, fruit, blades, prickles, lichen, nor moss. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Checker: Uriah