Generate
['dʒenəreɪt] or ['dʒɛnəret]
Definition
(verb.) bring into existence; 'The new manager generated a lot of problems'; 'The computer bug generated chaos in the office'; 'The computer generated this image'; 'The earthquake generated a tsunami'.
(verb.) produce (energy); 'We can't generate enough power for the entire city'; 'The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity'.
Checked by Cecily--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Rosalind
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Beget, procreate, engender, breed, propagate.[2]. Produce, form, make.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Engender, produce, propagate, originate, beget, breed
ANT:Stifle, extinguish, terminate
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Definition
v.t. to produce: to bring into life: to originate.—adj. Gen′erable that may be generated or produced.—ns. Gen′erant (math.) a line point or figure that produces another figure by its motion; Generā′tion a producing or originating: a single stage in natural descent: the people of the same age or period: offspring progeny race: (pl.) genealogy history (B.); Generā′tionism traducianism.—adj. Gen′erātive having the power of generating or producing.—ns. Gen′erātor begetter or producer: the principal sound in music; Gen′erātrix (geom.) the point line or surface which by its motion generates another magnitude.—adjs. Genet′ic -al pertaining to genesis or production.—adv. Genet′ically.—ns. Gen′etrix Gen′itrix a female parent; Gen′itor a progenitor; Gen′iture birth.—Alternation of generations a complication in the life-history of plants when the organism produces offspring unlike itself but giving rise in turn to forms like the original parents; Spontaneous generation the origination of living from non-living matter: abiogenesis.
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Examples
- There is no need, therefore, to generate dialectical disputes about the final goal of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There is a spirituality about the face, however--she gently turned it towards the light--which the typewriter does not generate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The pyromagnetic generator is based on the same phenomenon; its aim being of course to generate electrical energy directly from the heat of the combustible. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The furnace to generate the steam consists of a spirit lamp. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In other words, the essential difference is that with Bell's telephone the sound-waves themselves generate the electric impulses, which are therefore extremely faint. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He fitted up an experimental boat with such an engine, and means upon the boat to generate the gas. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And now let us consider the happiness of the man, and also of the State in which a creature like him is generated. Plato. The Republic.
- I do not suppose all storms generated in the same manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A change in the character of the current generated by the dynamo is made by what is known as the transformer, in which the principle of the induction coil is made available. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The heat generated for ironing, for instance, is all utilized. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For it would try to understand the inner feeling which had generated what looks like a silly demand. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The ovens are highly insulated with a thick packing of best grade mineral wool, which reduces air leakage to a minimum and retains the heat generated for a long period. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- By that means, the gas is generated in a closed vessel, and forces itself into the water by its own elasticity. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Now human nature and the changing social forces it generates are the very material which fit least well into most little schemes of things. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This is done sometimes by employing the high-tension currents to drive a local dynamo which generates low-tension currents. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The electric transmission of power is effected by employing the source of power to drive a machine called a dynamo, which generates an electric current. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Misery generates hate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- EDISON'S NEW STORAGE BATTERY GENERICALLY considered, a battery is a device which generates electric current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is the law of inventions that one invention necessitates and generates another. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When the science of static electricity was thus far developed, with a machine for generating it and a collector to receive it, many experiments followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Sunbury generating plant consisted of an Armington & Sims engine driving two small Edison dynamos having a total capacity of about four hundred lamps of 16 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The simplicity of the method of generating acetylene gas from this substance by merely bringing it in contact with water has greatly stimulated invention in this field. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The water thus discharged passes through a diversion channel in the old bed of the Chagres River, generating, by an enormous electric plant, the power necessary for operating the locks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Remember that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Well may Mr. Hobson inquire, _Now, what provision is made for generating the motor power of progress in Collectivism? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These various electrical features are diagrammatically shown in Fig. 2, which also illustrates the connection with the generating plant. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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