PRODUCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does production mean? 

• PRODUCTION (noun)
  The noun PRODUCTION has 8 senses:

1. the act or process of producing something

2. a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television

3. an artifact that has been created by someone or some process

4. (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law

5. the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)

6. a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated

7. (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale

8. the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services

  Familiarity information: PRODUCTION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRODUCTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act or process of producing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the production of white blood cells

Hypernyms ("production" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "production"):

devising; fashioning; making (the act that results in something coming to be)

foliation (the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves)

canalisation; canalization (the production of a canal or a conversion to canals)

growing ((electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state)

steel production (making steel from pig iron)

rainmaking (activity intended to produce rain)

Derivation:

produce (bring onto the market or release)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

have you seen the new production of Hamlet?

Hypernyms ("production" is a kind of...):

presentation (the act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it)

Meronyms (parts of "production"):

coup de theatre (a sensational bit of stagecraft)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "production"):

staging; theatrical production (the production of a drama on the stage)

Derivation:

produce (bring onto the market or release)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An artifact that has been created by someone or some process

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

product; production

Context example:

they export most of their agricultural production

Hypernyms ("production" is a kind of...):

creation (an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "production"):

end product; output (final product; the things produced)

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

fruit; yield (an amount of a product)

piece of work; work (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing)

turnery (products made on a lathe)

output; outturn; turnout (what is produced in a given time period)

newspaper; paper (the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher)

magazine (product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object)

job (an object worked on; a result produced by working)

brainchild; inspiration (a product of your creative thinking and work)

deliverable (something that can be provided as the product of development)

by-product; byproduct; spin-off (a product made during the manufacture of something else)

book (a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge)

book; volume (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the appellate court demanded the production of all documents

Hypernyms ("production" is a kind of...):

exhibition (the act of exhibiting)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

produce (bring out for display)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

output; production; yield

Context example:

production was up in the second quarter

Hypernyms ("production" is a kind of...):

indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "production"):

pick; picking (the quantity of a crop that is harvested)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

she tends to make a big production out of nothing

Hypernyms ("production" is a kind of...):

display (behavior that makes your feelings public)

Sense 7

Meaning:

(economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he introduced more efficient methods of production

Hypernyms ("production" is a kind of...):

industry; manufacture (the organized action of making of goods and services for sale)

Domain category:

economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "production"):

boring; drilling; oil production (the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum)

sericulture (the production of raw silk by raising silkworms)

quarrying (the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry)

excavation; mining (the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth)

generation (the production of heat or electricity)

cultivation (the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale))

cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))

breeding (the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization)

capacity (the maximum production possible)

output; yield (production of a certain amount)

underproduction (inadequate production or less than expected)

overproduction; overrun (too much production or more than expected)

mass production (the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques))

brewing (the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("production" is a kind of...):

creation; creative activity (the human act of creating)

 Context examples 

But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Treatment to block production of adrenal hormones.

(Adrenal Blockade, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of these processes results in suppression of the production of proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin 6.

(Acai Berry Juice, NCI Thesaurus)

The light-switchable cells are designed to compensate for the lower insulin production or reduced insulin response found in diabetic individuals.

(Researchers Develop Insulin-Producing Cells Activated by Light for Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers took several steps to compare the energy efficiency and environmental effects of corn production and processing for food and for biofuel.

(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)

The drug combination essentially shuts down tumor cell ATP production.

(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)

Sargramostim binds to specific cell surface receptors, modulating the proliferation and differentiation of a variety of hematopoietic progenitor cells with some specificity towards stimulation of leukocyte production.

(Aerosol Sargramostim, NCI Thesaurus)

This prevents arterial vasoconstriction by AT II and inhibits the production of aldosterone by AT II.

(Aliskiren, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with MUC2-KLH may result in the production of antibodies as well as elicit a cytotoxic T- lymphocyte (CTL) response against tumor cells expressing MUC2.

(MUC-2-KLH Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Administration of MUC1-KLH vaccine/QS21 may result in both the production of antitumor antibodies and the stimulation of a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response against tumor cells expressing the MUC1 antigen.

(MUC1-KLH Vaccine/QS21, NCI Thesaurus)