product

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈpɹɒd.əkt/
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/ˈpɹɒd.əkt/ · /ˈpɹɒd.ʌkt/ · /ˈpɹɑ.dəkt/ · /ˈpɹɑ.dʌkt/ · /ˈpɹɔd.əkt/ · /ˈprɔɖəkʈ/ · /prɔɖɛkʈ/ · [pɾɒ̈ːɖe̞kʈ]

Definition of product

11 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Anything that is produced; a result.
    “The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.”
    “To whom thus Michael: These are the product / Of those ill-mated marriages thou sawest;”
    “These institutions are the products of enthusiasm; they are the instruments of wisdom.”
    “The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Anything that is produced; a result.
    “The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.”
    “To whom thus Michael: These are the product / Of those ill-mated marriages thou sawest;”
    “These institutions are the products of enthusiasm; they are the instruments of wisdom.”
    “The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)Anything that is produced; a result.
    “They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.”
  3. (countable, uncountable)Anything that is produced; a result.
    “Skill is the product of hours of practice.  His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue.”
  4. (countable, uncountable)Anything that is produced; a result.
    “This is a product of lime and nitric acid.”
  5. (countable, uncountable)Anything that is produced; a result.
    “The product of 2 and 3 is 6.  The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.”
  6. (countable, uncountable)Anything that is produced; a result.
  7. (countable, uncountable)Anything that is produced; a result.
    “Product innovation is needed to meet changes in society and its requirements for particular types of banking product.”
    “This sort of relationship can improve quality of transportation and can help in negotiations between transportation providers and transportation product users.”
    “You can't create a stellar software product unless you know what it is supposed to do. You must work with the stakeholders to create the product scope.”
  8. (countable, uncountable)A commodity offered for sale.
    “That store offers a variety of products.  We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.”
  9. (US, countable, slang, uncountable)A commodity offered for sale.
    “I got some product here — you buying?”
  10. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of beauty product: any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc. Often specifically a preparation used to hold one's hair in a desired arrangement.
    “Wash excess product out of your hair.”
    “He puts his fingers in Miller’s hair, which is greasy with product.”

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To produce.
    “The probate of a Testament is the producting and insinuating of it before the Ecclesiastical Judge […]”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Latin prōductusder.…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Latin prōductusder. Middle English product English product From Middle English product, from Latin prōductus, perfect participle of prōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.

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