generate

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: gen=er=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

generate, v. t. [L. generatus, p. p. of generare to generate, fr. genus. See Genus, Gender.].

•  To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.  [1913 Webster]
•  To cause to be; to bring into life.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.  [1913 Webster]

  "Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate milk."  [1913 Webster]
•  To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

generate, v.tr.
1 bring into existence; produce, evolve.
2 produce (electricity).
3 Math. (of a point or line or surface conceived as moving) make (a line or surface or solid).
4 Math. & Linguistics produce (a set or sequence of items) by the formulation and application of precise criteria.

Derivative

generable adj.

Etymology

L generare beget (as GENUS)

THESAURUS

generate

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

ROGET THESAURUS

generate

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.

Productiveness

VB make productive, fructify, procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate, fecundate, fecundify, teem, multiply, produce, conceive.