generate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   bring into existence

   The new manager generated a lot of problems

2. 2
   verb

   produce (energy)

   We can't generate enough power for the entire city

3. 3
   verb

   To bring into being; give rise to.

   The discussion generated an uproar.

4. 4
   verb

   To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.

   Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat.

5. 5
   verb

   To procreate, beget.

   They generated many offspring.

6. 6
   verb

   To form a figure from a curve or solid.

   Rotating a circle generates a sphere.

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   adj

   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 another, it is not generate at all. But that it is not ingenerate, we ſhewed also. Therefore ſeeing it is neither generate nor ingenerate, it is not at all; for every Beeing muſt either be generate or ingenerate.

Etymology

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”)).