production

Roget category 161

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.8. Causation
›› 1.8.3. Power in operation

#161. Production

noun

production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture — building, architecture, erection, edification — coinage — diaster^† — organization — nisus formativus [Lat.] — putting together etc. v. — establishment — workmanship, performance — achievement etc. (completion) 729.
flowering, fructification — inflorescence.
bringing forth etc. v. — parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics — geniture^† — gestation etc. (maturation) 673 — assimilation — evolution, development, growth — entelechy [Phil.] — fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy [Biol.], genesis, generation, epigenesis^†, procreation, progeneration^†, propagation — fecundation, impregnation — albumen etc. 357.
spontaneous generation — archegenesis^†, archebiosis^† — biogenesis, abiogenesis^†, digenesis^†, dysmerogenesis^†, eumerogenesis^†, heterogenesis^†, oogenesis, merogenesis^†, metogenesis^†, monogenesis^†, parthenogenesis, homogenesis^†, xenogenesis1^† — authorship, publication — works, opus, oeuvre.
biogeny^†, dissogeny^†, xenogeny^† — tocogony^†, vacuolization.
edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.

verb

produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture — weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel — build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up — establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute — achieve, accomplish etc. (complete) 729.
flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean^†, yean^†, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle — bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world.
make productive etc. 168 — create — beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate — procreate, progenerate^†, propagate — engender — bring into being, call into being, bring into existence — breed, hatch, develop, bring up.
induce, superinduce — suscitate^† — cause etc. 153 — acquire etc. 775.

adjective

produced, producing etc. v. — productive of — prolific etc. 168 — creative — formative, genetic, genial, genital — pregnant — enceinte, big with, fraught with — in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of — puerperal, puerperous^†.
digenetic^†, heterogenetic^†, oogenetic, xenogenetic^† — ectogenous^†, gamic^†, haematobious^†, sporogenous [Biol.], sporophorous [Biol.].
architectonic.

phrase

ex nihilo nihil [Lat.] — fiat lux [Lat.] — materiam superabat opus [Lat.] [Ovid]; nemo dat quod non habet [Lat.].

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