generate

verb

1. 1

   To bring into being; give rise to.

   The discussion generated an uproar.

   The Ecclesiastical Commission was generated by Sir Robert Peel and bore the marks of Peel’s personality; bureaucratic, capable and cold.

   In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.

   “If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” she said.

2. 2

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

   Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat.

3. 3

   To procreate, beget.

   They generated many offspring.

4. 4

   To form a figure from a curve or solid.

   Rotating a circle generates a sphere.

5. 5

   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.

adjective

1. 1

   rareGenerated, not self-existent.

   It poses the thorny problem of the status of the Logos. Is he generate or ingenerate?.. Justin replies that he is generate—but in a special sense.

Forms

past tense

generated

past participle

generated

present participle

generating

third person singular

generates