Produce vs. Develop — What's the Difference?

Produce is a generalized term for many farm-produced crops, including fruits and vegetables (grains, oats, etc. are also sometimes considered produce).

Grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate

Make or manufacture from components or raw materials

Start to exist, experience, or possess

Cause (a particular result or situation) to happen or exist

Treat (a photographic film) with chemicals to make a visible image

Show or provide (something) for consideration, inspection, or use

Bring (a piece) into play from its initial position on a player's back rank

Administer the financial and managerial aspects of (a film or broadcast) or the staging of (a play, opera, etc.)

To bring from latency to or toward fulfillment

Extend or continue (a line)

To expand or enlarge

Agricultural and other natural products collectively

To aid in the growth of; strengthen

To bring forth; yield

To improve the quality of; refine

To create by physical or mental effort

To cause to become more complex or intricate; add detail and fullness to; elaborate

To manufacture

(Music) To elaborate (a theme) with rhythmic and harmonic variations.

To cause to occur or exist; give rise to

To bring into being gradually

To bring forth; exhibit

To set forth or clarify by degrees

To act or operate as producer for

To come to have gradually; acquire

(Mathematics) To extend (an area or volume) or lengthen (a line).

To become affected with; contract

To make or yield products or a product

To influence the behavior of toward a specific end

To manufacture or create economic goods and services.

To cause (a tract of land or a building) to serve a particular purpose

Farm products, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, considered as a group.

To make available and effective to fulfill a particular end or need

(transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.

To convert or transform

(transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.

(Games) To move (a chess piece) to or toward a more strategic position.

To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.

To process (a photosensitive medium such as exposed film) in order to produce a photographic image.

(mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.

To produce (a photographic image) by use of a photosensitive medium or by printing from a digital file.

(obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.

To grow by degrees into a more advanced or mature state

(music) To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.

To increase or expand

That which is produced.

To improve; advance

Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.

To come gradually into existence or activity

Offspring.

To come gradually to light; be disclosed

(Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.

To progress from earlier to later stages of a life cycle

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

To progress from earlier to later stages of evolution

To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain.

To acquire secondary sex characteristics. Used especially of a girl.

To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.

To discover, find out; to uncover.

To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.

(intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.

To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.

(ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.

To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.

(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.

To extend; - applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.

(transitive) To create.

To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.

(transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.

That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors

(transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.

Fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market

To place one's pieces actively.

Bring forth or yield;

To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.

Create or manufacture a man-made product;

(math) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

Cause to occur or exist;

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.

Bring out for display;

To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.

Bring onto the market or release;

To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.

Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques;

To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);

To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.

To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.

To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.

Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation;

Work out;

Gain through experience;

Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);

Come into existence; take on form or shape;

Change the use of and make available or usable;

Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses;

Create by training and teaching;

Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest;

Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment;

Become technologically advanced;

Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development;

Generate gradually;

Grow emotionally or mature;

Make visible by means of chemical solutions;

Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry

Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions;

Move into a strategically more advantageous position;

Elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme;

Happen;

Expand in the form of a series;