Generate

['dʒenəreɪt] or ['dʒɛnəret]

Definition

(verb.) bring into existence; 'The new manager generated a lot of problems'; 'The computer bug generated chaos in the office'; 'The computer generated this image'; 'The earthquake generated a tsunami'.

(verb.) produce (energy); 'We can't generate enough power for the entire city'; 'The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity'.

Checked by Cecily--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

(v. t.) To cause to be; to bring into life.

(v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.

(v. t.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.

Checker: Rosalind

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Beget, procreate, engender, breed, propagate.[2]. Produce, form, make.

Typed by Elvin

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Engender, produce, propagate, originate, beget, breed

ANT:Stifle, extinguish, terminate

Edited by Davy

Definition

v.t. to produce: to bring into life: to originate.—adj. Gen′erable that may be generated or produced.—ns. Gen′erant (math.) a line point or figure that produces another figure by its motion; Generā′tion a producing or originating: a single stage in natural descent: the people of the same age or period: offspring progeny race: (pl.) genealogy history (B.); Generā′tionism traducianism.—adj. Gen′erātive having the power of generating or producing.—ns. Gen′erātor begetter or producer: the principal sound in music; Gen′erātrix (geom.) the point line or surface which by its motion generates another magnitude.—adjs. Genet′ic -al pertaining to genesis or production.—adv. Genet′ically.—ns. Gen′etrix Gen′itrix a female parent; Gen′itor a progenitor; Gen′iture birth.—Alternation of generations a complication in the life-history of plants when the organism produces offspring unlike itself but giving rise in turn to forms like the original parents; Spontaneous generation the origination of living from non-living matter: abiogenesis.

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Examples

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