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generate¹

  • /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/ UK
  • [ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɹeɪt] UK
  • /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/ Canada, US
  • [ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɹeɪt] Canada, US
  • /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɚ.eɪt/ Canada, US
  • /ˈd͡ʒen.ə.ɹæɪt/ Australia, New Zealand
  • [ˈd͡ʒen.ɹæɪt] Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈd͡ʒɛnəreːt/ Canada
  • [ˈdʑɛnəɹɛ(ː)t]

Where it comes from

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”)).

verb generates · generating · generated

  1. transitive To bring into being; give rise to. The discussion generated an uproar.
  2. transitive To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process. Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat.
  3. transitive To procreate, beget. They generated many offspring.
  4. transitive To form a figure from a curve or solid. Rotating a circle generates a sphere.
  5. intransitive To appear or occur; be generated. 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.

generate²

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin generātus, perfect passive participle of generō (“beget, procreate, produce”). See Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

adjective

  1. not comparable, rare Generated, not self-existent. But neither is one time generated in another; for if the preſent be generated in the future, the future muſt be present; and if in the paſt, the paſt. The ſame may be ſaid of other times; therefore one time is not generated in another. Now if time be neither generated in itſelf, nor one time in anot

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