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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.]
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1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being
similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal
generates its own species.
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2. To cause to be; to bring into life. --Milton.
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3. To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process;
to produce; to cause.
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Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must
likewise generate milk. --Arbuthnot.
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4. (Math.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the
motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
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generate
v 1: 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}]

2: 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]

3: produce (energy); "We can't generate enough power for the
entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more
electricity"

4: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father
children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get,
engender, father, mother, sire, generate, {bring
forth}]
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generate

To produce something according to an algorithm or program or
set of rules, or as a (possibly unintended) side effect of
the execution of an algorithm or program.

The opposite of parse.

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(1995-06-15)

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generate
vt.

To produce something according to an algorithm or program or set of
rules, or as a (possibly unintended) side effect of the execution of
an algorithm or program. The opposite of parse. This term retains
its mechanistic connotations (though often humorously) when used of
human behavior. "The guy is rational most of the time, but mention
nuclear energy around him and he'll generate infinite flamage."

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generate [dʒenəreit]
engendrer

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generate [dʒenəreit]
gerar, procriar

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generate

erzeugen; entwickeln; errechnen
generate

generieren
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114 Moby Thesaurus words for "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



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