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PRODUCT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commodities offered for sale
Example:
that store offers a variety of products
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):
commodity; good; trade good (articles of commerce)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "product"):
piece goods; yard goods (merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard)
top of the line (the best (most expensive) in a given line of merchandise)
inventory; stock (the merchandise that a shop has on hand)
software package; software product (merchandise consisting of a computer program that is offered for sale)
dreck; schlock; shlock (merchandise that is shoddy or inferior)
release (merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film))
refill (a commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents)
number (an item of clothing)
business line; line; line of business; line of merchandise; line of products; product line (a particular kind of product or merchandise)
irregular; second (merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name)
ironmongery (the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop)
generic (any product that can be sold without a brand name)
feature (an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles)
contraband (goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law)
cargo; consignment; freight; lading; load; loading; payload; shipment (goods carried by a large vehicle)
Holonyms ("product" is a part of...):
mercantile establishment; outlet; retail store; sales outlet (a place of business for retailing goods)
Derivation:
produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An artifact that has been created by someone or some process
Example:
they export most of their agricultural production
Synonyms:
product; production
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):
creation (an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "product"):
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)
end product; output (final product; the things produced)
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)
Derivation:
produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A quantity obtained by multiplication
Example:
the product of 2 and 3 is 6
Synonyms:
mathematical product; product
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):
quantity (the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "product"):
factorial (the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer)
multiple (the product of a quantity by an integer)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The set of elements common to two or more sets
Example:
the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things
Synonyms:
Cartesian product; intersection; product
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):
set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances
Example:
his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):
consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)
Derivation:
produce (cause to happen, occur or exist)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction
Example:
a product of lime and nitric acid
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):
chemical; chemical substance (material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "product"):
hydrolysate (a product of hydrolysis)
filtrate (the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb product
Context examples:
A medical device is any product used to diagnose, cure, or treat a condition, or to prevent disease.
(Medical Device Safety, Food and Drug Administration)
Researchers estimated prices of 657 standardised food products using the 2011 International Comparison Program survey that focused on 176 countries.
(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)
A single day seemed to have changed him from the highest product of modern civilization to the most desperate savage in South America.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It can be used as baby or ''teen'' leaf in salad bags, as bunched products, and in spring mixes for fresh-market consumption.
(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Such events can be intervention related, dose related, route related, patient related, or caused by an interaction with other product(s) or procedure(s).
(Adverse Event Following Immunization, NCI Thesaurus)
The findings revealed a diet based on the consumption of terrestrial proteins—plants, animal proteins, and dairy products—where seafood was absent.
(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)
A category specifying that a product is marketed as a medical food under the statutory definition found in section FDA regulation 21 C.F.R. 101.9(j)(8).
(Medical Food Marketing Category, NCI Thesaurus)
The study and treatment of cancers with chemicals, biological products or immunotherapy.
(Medical Oncology, NCI Thesaurus)
It is a feeling, a sentiment, a something based upon illusion and not a product of the intellect at all.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A date determined by appropriate stability testing of the medical product lot, batch, or item, after which the product may not meet the appropriate regulatory agencies requirements.
(Medical Product Expiration Date, NCI Thesaurus)
