generate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To cause something to exist or happen; to produce.

   The new campaign generated a lot of interest among customers.

2. 2
   verb

   To produce power or energy.

   The dam generates electricity for the whole region.

3. 3
   verb

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

   Adding acid to water generates heat.

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”)).

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