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Definition of Generate

1. Verb. Bring into existence. "The earthquake generated a tsunami"

2. Verb. Give or supply. "The estate renders some revenue for the family"

3. Verb. Produce (energy). "The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity"

4. Verb. Make children. "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

Definition of Generate

1. 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.

Definition of Generate

1. Verb. (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To procreate, beget. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Generate

1. to bring into existence [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Medical Definition of Generate

1. 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. 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. To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order. Origin: L. Generatus, p. P. Of generare to generate, fr. Genus. See Genus, Gender. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Generate

generalizes generalizing generall generally generally accepted accounting practices generalness generals generals of the army generalship generalships

generalties generalty generant generants generatable generate (current term) generated generated occlusal path generates generating

generation generation X generation effect generation gap generation gaps generation loss generation time generational generationally generationer

Literary usage of Generate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1860)
"A constituent member, or element, of a General Study (Studium generate). This third sense is the subject of this discussion; the others, however, ..."

2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1878)
"The nature of the changes through which an electric current is able to generate a nervous impulse. Action of the Constant Current. There now comes before us ..."

3. The Travels of Ludovico Di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and by Lodovico de Varthema, John Winter Jones, George Percy Badger (1863)
"THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW ELEPHANTS generate. The said elephant, when he wishes to generate, goes into a secret place, that is, into the water in certain ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Ur amounts of elements which generate the same quantity of electricity in combining. It is perhaps necessary to observe that the electrolytic reactions ..."

5. A Treatise on Electric Law: Comprising the Law Governing All Electric by Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce (1907)
"Public use — Dam to utilize water power to generate electricity, for street railway — Right ... Use both public and private — Plant to generate electricity. ..."

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