Dictionary Definition
generate
Verb
1 bring into existence; "The new manager
generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in
the office" [syn: bring
forth]
2 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" [syn: render, yield, return, give]
3 produce (energy); "We can't generate enough
power for the entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to to
generate more electricity"
4 make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men
often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, bring
forth]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Verb
- To bring into being;
give rise to.
- The discussion generated an uproar.
- To produce as a
result of a chemical or physical process.
- Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat.
- To procreate.
- They generated many offspring.
- In the context of "transitive|mathematics": To form a figure from a curve or solid.
- Rotating a circle generates a sphere.
- second-person plural present tense of generare
- second-person plural present subjunctive of generare
- second-person plural imperative of generare
- feminine plural past participle of generare
Extensive Definition
Generate may refer to:
Science and math
- Generate and test (trial and error)
- Generating function, in math and physics
- Generating primes
- Generating set
- Generating trigonometric tables
Other
- Generated collection, in music theory
- Generating Application Propositions, in business
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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