generate

[Gen·er*ate]

Generate means produce or create. A good stock pick might generate cash, and a good idea might generate the basis for an Oscar winning film.

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

Verb
make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don''t recognize them"

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bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"

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

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give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year''s crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"

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.

Generate

Gen"er*ate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Generated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Generating.] [L. generatus, p. p. of generare to generate, fr. genus. See Genus, Gender.] 1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species. 2. 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.

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

Generation

Gen`er*a"tion , n. [OE. generacioun, F. g'82n'82ration, fr.L. generatio.] 1. The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals. 2. Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc. 3. That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring. 4. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.

This is the book of the generations of Adam.

Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations.

All generations and ages of the Christian church.

5. Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

Thy mother's of my generation; what's she, if I be a dog?

6. (Geom.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc. 7. (Biol.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction. &hand; There are four modes of generation in the animal kingdom: scissiparity or by fissiparous generation, gemmiparity or by budding, germiparity or by germs, and oviparity or by ova. Alternate generation (Biol.), alternation of sexual with asexual generation, in which the products of one process differ from those of the other, -- a form of reproduction common both to animal and vegetable organisms. In the simplest form, the organism arising from sexual generation produces offspiring unlike itself, agamogenetically. These, however, in time acquire reproductive organs, and from their impregnated germs the original parent form is reproduced. In more complicated cases, the first series of organisms produced agamogenetically may give rise to others by a like process, and these in turn to still other generations. Ultimately, however, a generation is formed which develops sexual organs, and the original form is reproduced. -- Spontaneous generation (Biol.), the fancied production of living organisms without previously existing parents from inorganic matter, or from decomposing organic matter, a notion which at one time had many supporters; abiogenesis.

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

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Usage Examples

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

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Other Usage Examples

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.