Generate meaning

jĕn'ə-rāt'
To bring into being; cause to be.

To generate hope.

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To produce in great quantities.

An office that generates a lot of paperwork.

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To produce (offspring); beget; procreate.
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To trace out or form ( a curve, plane, or figure) by the motion of a point, line, or plane.
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To originate or produce by a physical, chemical, mechanical, electronic, or mathematical process.

To generate electricity, software that generates graphs.

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To generate is defined as to produce, create or cause to be.

An example of to generate is turning on a heater, making a room warm.

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To engender (offspring); procreate.
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To form (a geometric figure) by describing a curve or surface.
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To produce (a program) by instructing a computer to follow given parameters with a skeleton program.
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To bring into being; give rise to.

Generate a discussion.

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To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.

Generate heat.

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To engender offspring; procreate.
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To bring into being; give rise to.

The discussion generated an uproar.

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To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.

Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat.

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They generated many offspring.

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(mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.

Rotating a circle generates a sphere.

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(intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
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In generative grammar, to construct (a sentence, for example) through the successive application of linguistic operations, rules, and conditions.
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Origin of generate

From Latin generātus, perfect passive participle of generō (“beget, procreate, produce”), from genus (“a kind, race, family”); see genus.

Sentence Examples

  • We're building a bigger battery to store the energy we generate from the river, but … Kelli shrugged.

  • Set this keyboard to generate a scatter plot.

  • In these processes the electric current is used solely to generate heat, either to induce chemical reactions between admixed substances, or to produce a physical (allotropic) modification of a given substance.

  • The breath directed horizontally across the open end, impinged against the sharp inner edge of the pipes, creating the regular series of pulses which generate the sound waves within the tubes.

  • Nowak, however, found later that he could generate it where the turpentine failed to induce suppuration; he believes that it may arise quite apart from the influence of the organisms of suppuration, that it is not a biological product of the micro-organisms of disease, and also that it has nothing to do with emaciation.

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