generate
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin generō (“beget, procreate, produce”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from genus (“a kind, race, family”, gener- in compounds) + -ō; see genus. Compare Italian generare, French générer (and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, gender (“engender, breed, copulate”)).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]generate (third-person singular simple present generates, present participle generating, simple past and past participle generated)
- (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
- The discussion generated an uproar.
- 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 126:
- The Ecclesiastical Commission was generated by Sir Robert Peel and bore the marks of Peel’s personality; bureaucratic, capable and cold.
- 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.
- (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.
Synonyms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “bring into being”): abrogate, annihilate, degenerate, extinguish, obliterate, ungenerate
- (antonym(s) of “produce as a result of a chemical or physical process”): erase
Coordinate terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]bring into being
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produce as a result of a chemical or physical process
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procreate, beget
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mathematics: form a figure
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Etymology 2
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin generātus, perfect passive participle of generō (“beget, procreate, produce”). See Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Adjective
[edit]generate (not comparable)
- (rare) generated, begotten
- 1965, R. A. Norris, God & World in Early Chrisian Theology, volume ii. 67:
- It poses the thorny problem of the status of the Logos. Is he generate or ingenerate?.. Justin replies that he is generate—but in a special sense.
- 1543 (1464), John Hardyng, Chronicle of John Hardyng, page 282:
- Edwarde his sonne & heire first generate..Crouned was in all royall estate.
Further reading
[edit]- “generate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “generate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Verb
[edit]generate
- inflection of generare:
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]generāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]generate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of generar combined with te
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