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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : jen-uh-reyt |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɛn əˌreɪt |
Definition of generates
Origin :- c.1500, "to beget" (offspring), a back-formation from generation or else from Latin generatus, past participle of generare "to beget, produce" (see generation); originally "to beget;" in reference to natural forces, conditions, substances, etc., attested from 1560s. Related: Generated; generating.
- verb produce, create
- Many a man both receives and generates who, somehow, cannot represent.
- Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
- It's your end, Colonel, that generates the heat, and Dutchy's end that does the burning.
- Extract from : « Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York » by Lemuel Ely Quigg
- Thus, by the rude agency of his hammer, he generates light and heat.
- Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
- The exalted moment is the dynamo that generates the working energy.
- Extract from : « The Life Radiant » by Lilian Whiting
- The Gospel requires and generates not a legal, but an evangelical obedience.
- Extract from : « The Parables of Our Lord » by William Arnot
- It is the only visible change which changes no further; which generates and yet is not destroyed.
- Extract from : « The Book Lovers' Anthology » by Various
- It generates light: it transforms them into living light-bearers.
- Extract from : « Bible Emblems » by Edward E. Seelye
- He does not mean that Intellect (Νοῦς) generates or produces these principles.
- Extract from : « Aristotle » by George Grote
- Roughly you might say it generates and radiates like our brain wave.
- Extract from : « The Kenzie Report » by Mark Clifton
- The twin-soul is the cell that generates the creative force.
- Extract from : « The Goddess of Atvatabar » by William R. Bradshaw
Synonyms for generates
- accomplish
- achieve
- bear
- beget
- breed
- bring about
- bring to pass
- cause
- develop
- effect
- engender
- form
- found
- get up
- give birth to
- give rise to
- hatch
- inaugurate
- induce
- initiate
- institute
- introduce
- make
- multiply
- muster
- occasion
- originate
- parent
- perform
- procreate
- propagate
- provoke
- reproduce
- set up
- spawn
- whip up
- work up
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