▪ I. proˈducing, vbl. n.
[f. produce v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb produce; production.
| 1627 Rawley in Bacon's Sylva To Rdr., The producing of many noble works and effects. 1691 Locke Lower. Interest (1692) 16 Trade then is necessary to the producing of Riches, and Money necessary to the carrying on of Trade. 1707 Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 35 Generation is but the Producing and Manifestation of an Animal..form'd a few days after the Creation of the Sun. |
▪ II. proˈducing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That produces; productive.
| 1827 Hutton Course Math. I. 50 Multiply the producing terms of one line, and the produced terms of the other line, continually, and take the result for a dividend. a 1871 Grote Eth. Fragm. i. (1876) 26 The producing cause of pleasures or of pains. 1884 U.S. Tenth Census X. 13 ‘Shale oil’ was found at a depth of 751 feet, and in November, 1871, producing sand was struck at 1,110 feet. 1907 Q. Rev. July 208 Hordes of mendicants live upon the producing classes. 1920 Stage Year Bk. 51 One or two of the bigger and better producing firms had begun to look higher. 1927 Petroleum Devel. & Technol. in 1926 (A.I.M.E. Petroleum Div.) 202 Where it occurs, naturally no complete travel from the injection well to the producing wells is had. 1932 New Yorker 23 July 2/2 (Advt.), Rockland Producing Company ‘Death Takes a Holiday’: Fri., July 22. 1976 Daily Tel. 3 Dec. 5/5 So far..most of Mexico's producing wells have been on land or in the relatively calm and shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico. |