Meaning of GENERATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'jenu`reyt
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- [v] make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
- [v] bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"
- [v] produce (energy); "We can't generate enough power for the entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to to generate more electricity"
- [v] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | beget, bring forth, bring forth, engender, father, get, give, mother, render, return, sire, yield |
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| | See Also: | | bring on, come up, create, create, develop, induce, make, make, produce | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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. --Arbuthnot.
4. (Math.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the
motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
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| | Definition: | | To produce something according to an algorithm or program or set of rules, or as a (possibly unintended) side effect of the execution of an algorithm or program. The opposite of parse. [Jargon File] |
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| | Related Terms: | | accomplish, achieve, amplify, author, bear, beget, breed, breed true, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring to effect, bring to pass, call into being, cause, charge, coin, conceive, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up, copulate, create, crossbreed, design, develop, devise, discover, do, dream up, effect, effectuate, electrify, energize, engender, establish, evolve, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, found, frame, galvanize, gestate, get, get up, give being to, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, hatch, impose, improvise, inaugurate, inbreed, induce, initiate, inspire, institute, introduce, invent, loop in, make, make do with, make love, make up, manufacture, mature, mint, mother, mould, multiply, muster up, occasion, originate, outbreed, parent, perform, plan, plug in, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, provoke, put together, realize, reproduce, reproduce in kind, set afloat, set on foot, set up, shock, short, short-circuit, sire, spawn, step down, step up, stiffen, strike out, switch off, switch on, think out, think up, turn off, turn on, whip up, work, work up |
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