generate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To bring into being

   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.
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.
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   1. 4

      To form a figure from a curve or solid.

      • Rotating a circle generates a sphere.
   2. 5

      To appear or occur

      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.
   3. 6

      Generated, 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.

The neighborhood

• antonymabrogateantonym(s) of “bring into being”
• antonymannihilateantonym(s) of “bring into being”
• antonymdegenerateantonym(s) of “bring into being”
• antonymextinguishantonym(s) of “bring into being”
• antonymobliterateantonym(s) of “bring into being”
• antonymungenerateantonym(s) of “bring into being”
• antonymeraseantonym(s) of “produce as a result of a chemical or physical process”
• neighborgenerable
• neighborgeneral
• neighborgeneration
• neighborgenerative
• neighborgeneric
• neighborgenus