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Hrsanei Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Produce versus product

Hi.

What is the different between produce as a noun and product?

What would you say int he following contexts?

Ex. Dairy produce or dairy product.

Ex. Locally grown produce or locally grown product.

Thank you in advance for your help and explanation.
  

Top answer

Produce is a mass noun. It's uncountable and can't take the indefintite article: agricultural produce, dairy produce. A product can take, and usually does take, the indefintite article: This is a French product.

— Cool Breeze

  • Produce is a mass noun.
  • It's uncountable and can't take the indefintite article: agricultural produce, dairy produce.
  • A product can take, and usually does take, the indefintite article: This is a French product.
  • CB
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Produce is a mass noun. It's uncountable and can't take the indefintite article: agricultural produce, dairy produce.

A product can take, and usually does take, the indefintite article: This is a French product.

CB
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Produce usually means fruits and vegetables.

A product is just about anything that is for sale that is manufactured (produced). I wouldn't call lettuce a product, but a package of lettuce with a brand name on it would be.
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Thank you very much Vorpar for your answer and explanation.
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Thank you very much C. B. for your response and help.
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Interestingly, Longman dictionary presesnts both diary product and diary produce.

Dairy produce: http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/produce_2

Dairy product:
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"Do both of them convey the same meaning?"

Not exactly. They are used as described in the dictionary you have cited. By the way, it's dairy produce. That seems to be marked as British English. I didn't know that!

CB
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Thank you Cool Breeze for your response.

So I assume dairy produce is made at farm and dairy products are made in a factory.

Please let me know if I am wrong.

Thanks
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That accounts for only one meaning of the noun form of produce. Aside from referring to fruits and vegetables, it also means (ii) offspring, and (iii) something that is yielded or produced. I think that the questioner was referring to one of the latter two meanings.

Dairy produce would be correct if you were using it to mean "that which is produced by an actual diary" in which sense the
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