'Generate' definitions:
Definition of 'generate'
From: WordNet
verb
Bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"; "The computer generated this image"; "The earthquake generated a tsunami" [syn: generate, bring forth]
verb
Give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" [syn: render, yield, return, give, generate]
verb
Produce (energy); "We can't generate enough power for the entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity"
verb
Definition of 'Generate'
From: GCIDE
- Generate \Gen"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Generated; p. pr. & vb. n. Generating.] [L. generatus, p. p. of generare to generate, fr. genus. See Genus, Gender.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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]
- 2. To cause to be; to bring into life. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Math.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'generate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Generate'
- Generated,
- Generating,
- Generation,
- Generative,
- Generator,
- generational,
- Alternate generation,
- Induction generator,
- Motor generator,
- Spontaneous generation,
- Virginal generation,
- alternation of generations,
- asynchronous generator,
- beat generation,
- electrostatic generator,
- generating tone,
- generation gap,
- generation x,
- generative grammar,
- pulse generator,
- wind generation,
- wind generator,
- random number generator,
- self-generated,
- Engine-type generator,
- baby-boom generation,
- van de graaff generator