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Webster 1913 Edition
Generate
Gen′er-ate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Generated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Generating
.] 1.
To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender;
as, every animal
. generates
its own species2.
To cause to be; to bring into life.
Milton.
3.
To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.
Whatever
generates
a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate
milk. Arbuthnot.
4.
(Math.)
To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
Webster 1828 Edition
Generate
GEN'ERATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce a being similar to the parent. Every animal generates his own species.2.
To produce; to cause to be; to bring into life; as great whales which the waters generated.3.
To cause; to produce; to form. Sounds are generated where there is no air at all.
Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle, must likewise generate milk.
In music, any given sound generates with itself its octave and two other sounds extremely sharp, viz, its twelfth above or the octave of its fifth, and the seventeenth above.
Definition 2024
generate
generate
English
Verb
generate (third-person singular simple present generates, present participle generating, simple past and past participle generated)
- (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
- 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:
- In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
- The discussion generated an uproar.
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- (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
- Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat.
- (transitive) To procreate, beget.
- They generated many offspring.
- (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
- Rotating a circle generates a sphere.
- (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
- 1883, Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers
- Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.
- 1883, Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers
Synonyms
- (to bring into being): create
Antonyms
- (to bring into being): annihilate, extinguish
- (to produce as a result of a chemical or physical process): erase
Derived terms
- degenerate
- re-generate
Related terms
Translations
to bring into being
to produce as a result of a chemical or physical process
to procreate, beget
mathematics: to form a figure
External links
- generate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- generate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
generate
- second-person plural present of generare
- second-person plural present subjunctive of generare
- second-person plural imperative of generare
- feminine plural past participle of generare