beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
(verb) make (offspring) by reproduction; “Abraham begot Isaac”; “John fathered four daughters”
generate, bring forth
(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”
generate
(verb) produce (energy); “We can’t generate enough power for the entire city”; “The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity”
render, yield, return, give, generate
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
generate (third-person singular simple present generates, present participle generating, simple past and past participle generated)
(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
(transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
(transitive) To procreate, beget.
(transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
(intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
• (to bring into being): create, spawn
• (to bring into being): annihilate, degenerate, extinguish
• (to produce as a result of a chemical or physical process): erase
• green tea, renegate, teen-ager, teenager
Source: Wiktionary
Gen"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Generated; p. pr. & vb. n. Generating.] Etym: [L. generatus, p. p. of generare to generate, fr. genus. See Genus, Gender.]
1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
2. To cause to be; to bring into life. Milton.
3. To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause. Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate milk. Arbuthnot.
4. (Math.)
Definition: To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
